Why have a public meeting if the public isn't invited?

The Virginia chapter of the Million Mom March decided to have a public meeting at a branch of the Fairfax County Public Library. They invited "All concerned Virginia residents". This meeting was to include comments by a uniformed Fairfax County police officer, apparently on-duty, and it was being held in a public meeting room.

Two pro-carry activists show up to film the event, which is perfectly legal under Virginia law. As a matter of fact, according to the PR Manager of the library system, "you may not prohibit the filming of your meeting in the library's meeting room". The men were not being disruptive in any way, but were merely filming the proceedings, as were the Million Mommies themselves.

The "Mommies" react to this "threat" by going into hysterics (They do that a lot. When you don't have a valid argument, yell louder, you know) and trying to bully the men into signing some sort of paper "limiting use of their films". One man refused, and the meeting was then canceled, apparently because the group was afraid that the general public was going to be able to view the meeting and decide the merits of the group's arguments for themselves.

The activists did manage to capture the lack of maturity and emotional development of the leaders of the "Mommy" group quite well, however. Organizers of the meeting are caught on tape saying such things as "We apologize to you for him; we can't help if his penis is just small, sorry, sorry", and "Permission to call him an asshole". One man goes so far as to say, "Even if this is a public place, this is a private meeting."

Well, they certainly publicized the heck out of their "private meeting", didn't they? "Mommies", if you don't want the details of your little propaganda session to get out, here's an idea: Don't invite the public, and don't have the meeting in a public place. That'll solve your dilemma quite nicely.

This is yet another example of the standard tactics of the ban guns crowd. Don't argue your position with facts and reasoned arguments, rather cry and whine and play the victim card, in an attempt to generate an emotional response.

Link to the videos here, link to an article about the incident here.