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Galraedia

(5,015 posts)
Sat Jan 7, 2012, 01:31 PM Jan 2012

Tucson Gun Show Held On Anniversary Of Giffords Shooting

One year ago Sunday, Jared Lee Loughner arrived at a Tucson, Arizona gathering with Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) intending to assassinate the congresswoman. Miraculously, Giffords survived the bullet to her head, but six of her constituents — including a sitting federal judge and a nine year-old child — were not so lucky. In addition to the six people slain by Loughner’s gun, more than a dozen were injured.

So it is more than a little puzzling why the Crossroads of the West gun show picked the anniversary of this horrific mass killing to hold one of their shows in the very same town where the Tucson massacre occurred.

To their credit, this gun show at least admits that they are selling an inherently dangerous product. At the same time that gun lobbyists are trying to impose the country’s laxest concealed carry laws on the rest of America, Crossroads of the West is warning its attendees not to bring loaded concealed weapons because they endanger the gun show’s attendees:

Q: Can I carry a loaded gun in the gun show? I have a Concealed Carry Permit.
A: We respectfully request that you do not bring any loaded firearm into the gun show. Safety is our Number One Priority, and a safe environment in the show can only be maintained if there are no loaded guns in the show.

Read more: http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/01/06/399800/tucson-gun-show-held-on-anniversary-of-giffords-shooting/

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Tucson Gun Show Held On Anniversary Of Giffords Shooting (Original Post) Galraedia Jan 2012 OP
This message was self-deleted by its author Tesha Jan 2012 #1
Good to see gun show promoters acknowledging that concealed carry is dangerous. Hoyt Jan 2012 #2
You misread. ManiacJoe Jan 2012 #3
Gun show promoters know carriers don't always do things "correctly." Hoyt Jan 2012 #6
Correct, but what he said and ManiacJoe Jan 2012 #7
They do this on purpose justiceischeap Jan 2012 #4
What? A gun free zone at a gun show???? nt flamin lib Jan 2012 #5

Response to Galraedia (Original post)

 

Hoyt

(54,770 posts)
2. Good to see gun show promoters acknowledging that concealed carry is dangerous.
Sat Jan 7, 2012, 02:14 PM
Jan 2012

A growing number of gun owners think the majority of citizens -- who would not think of carrying a gun in public -- should be happy with them walking around in public parks, churches, restaurants, government buildings, you name it.

ManiacJoe

(10,136 posts)
3. You misread.
Sat Jan 7, 2012, 02:50 PM
Jan 2012

The promoters acknowledged that having loaded guns at a gun show is dangerous. Concealed carry is only one way of bringing in a loaded gun to the show. And if done correctly, concealed carry would not be an issue at the show since the gun would remain concealed and in its holster.

 

Hoyt

(54,770 posts)
6. Gun show promoters know carriers don't always do things "correctly."
Sat Jan 7, 2012, 04:46 PM
Jan 2012

sorry, but here's a guy that makes his living off guns, and he knows carriers can be irresponsible.

ManiacJoe

(10,136 posts)
7. Correct, but what he said and
Sat Jan 7, 2012, 05:22 PM
Jan 2012

what you interpreted it as are two different things.

Yup, humans can be irresponsible, even those with CCW permits/licenses.

justiceischeap

(14,040 posts)
4. They do this on purpose
Sat Jan 7, 2012, 02:54 PM
Jan 2012

Think of the NRA rally shortly after the Columbine massacre and I think, if memory serves, they also had one shortly after VA Tech.

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