Libertarian activist Adam Kokesh, who admitsto a history of mental instability and post-traumatic stress disorder, is calling for an armed march on Washington, D.C., to protest against tyranny.

Kokesh proposed a march with loaded rifles from Virginia in D.C. on July 4. D.C. police have promised to block the march from crossing into Washington.

This is now a call for mass civil disobedience on July 4th anywhere in Washington, D.C., he wrote on a Facebook page for the event. We will march with rifles loaded & slung across our backs to put the government on notice that we will not be intimidated & cower in submission to tyranny.

Kokesh, 31, who served as a non-commissioned officer in the Marines and reservist, wrote a 2005 college thesis entitled Hot, Dirty, and Dangerous: Seven Months of Civil and Not-So-Civil Affairs In And Around Fallujah.

He mentions PTSD in the thesis, writing I had a number of anxiety attacks those first few days back [from Iraq].

I didnt feel comfortable getting drunk, and the crowds made me nervous. When dealing with crowds in Iraq, I was always armed and I always had someone watching my back, usually with a machine gun. A cardinal rule for interacting with crowds was to never let anyone get behind you, Kokesh wrote. We had all heard the horror story of a Marine who was killed with his own pistol. When crowds got close around me I would often just leave one hand on my pistol and let my rifle dangle on the sling in front of me.

Used to getting his way, Kokesh eventually got his college to let him carry a gun to class, despite its firearms policy.

Every time someone bumped into me from behind at a party I instinctively reached down for my pistol and had a moment of awkward panic before realizing that I was being absurd, he wrote in his thesis. I had developed such a strong habit of waking up two or three minutes before my alarm that I often woke up thinking I had to be somewhere. I was so used to being on guard when in public that it was hard to truly relax at first.

The idea of loaded weapons at a protest march was met with disdain from pro-gun groups.

Thats a good way to provoke something, and thats not likely to end well, said Larry Pratt, executive director of Gun Owners of America.

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Libertarian Activist With History of PTSD Calls for Armed D.C. March