A dozen people carrying guns have showed up outside a conference hall in Phoenix, Arizona where Barack Obama was speaking about the US wars overseas.
- People carrying weapons at town hall meetings across the US as officials debate Obama's healthcare plan with the public has become a common scene and a show of popular dissent against it.
- A Phoenix Police Detective J. Oliver who, accompanied by two colleagues, was watching over a man with a semi-automatic weapon. Talking to The Arizona Republic Daily, he noted that the man carrying the gun was not violating the law.
- "If we need to intervene, we will intervene at that time," he told the local newspaper.
- Obama's address to war veterans in the Phoenix Convention Center came yesterday as his healthcare plan, known as the "Obama Care" has become a national political campaign.
- A recent report released by the non-profit US legal firm, the Southern Poverty Law Center, identifies the ailing economy and a “moderate Democratic president of African descent” as the root causes behind the increasing dissent which has led to the mushrooming sprout of armed bands and hate crimes across the United States.
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