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Petition Requests Open Carry of Guns at Republican National ConventionBy Lauren Boyer at US News and World Report
http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2016-03-24/petition-allow-open-carry-of-guns-at-republican-national-convention
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A petition posted to Change.org is asking for open carry of guns to be permitted at the Republican National Convention in July.
Held in Cleveland, this year's convention promises to be particularly tense as establishment Republicans ponder ways to block front-runner Donald Trump from getting the party's nomination.
The petition, which has nearly 4,000 supporters, was posted three days ago by author "N A," whose user profile appears to have been deleted from the site.
It is addressed to the Quicken Loans Arena, the National Rifle Association, Ohio Gov. John Kasich, the Republican National Committee and its chairman, Reince Priebus, along with GOP presidential candidates Ted Cruz and Trump.
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malaise
(268,903 posts)Sorry - please proceed whoever!!!!
malaise
(268,903 posts)dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)Hoyt
(54,770 posts)NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)Ilsa
(61,692 posts)valerief
(53,235 posts)Maru Kitteh
(28,333 posts)Fairgo
(1,571 posts)Time to walk the walk, Yosemite Sam
Stinky The Clown
(67,786 posts)OhPleaseOhPleaseOhPleaseOhPleaseOhPleaseOhPleaseOhPleaseOhPleaseOhPleaseOhPleaseOhPleaseOhPleaseOhPleaseOhPleaseOhPleaseOhPleaseOhPleaseOhPleaseOhPleaseOhPleaseOhPleaseOhPleaseOhPleaseOhPleaseOhPleaseOhPleaseOhPleaseOhPleaseOhPleaseOhPleaseOhPleaseOhPleaseOhPleaseOhPleaseOhPleaseOhPleaseOhPleaseOhPleaseOhPleaseOhPleaseOhPleaseOhPleaseOhPleaseOhPleaseOhPleaseOhPleaseOhPleaseOhPleaseOhPleaseOhPleaseOhPleaseOhPleaseOhPleaseOhPleaseOhPleaseOhPleaseOhPleaseOhPleaseOhPleaseOhPleaseOhPleaseOhPleaseOhPleaseOhPleaseOhPleaseOhPleaseOhPleaseOhPleaseOhPleaseOhPleaseOhPleaseOhPleaseOhPleaseOhPleaseOhPleaseOhPleaseOhPleaseOhPleaseOhPleaseOhPleaseOhPleaseOhPlease
lpbk2713
(42,752 posts)I hope it's carried real time in its entirety. I don't want to miss a minute of this if they do.
imanamerican63
(13,771 posts)Last edited Thu Mar 24, 2016, 10:30 PM - Edit history (1)
bigwillq
(72,790 posts)As long as those who want to carry can legally own a gun. Fine by me.
I would rather know who is carrying, so open carry is fine by me.
rurallib
(62,406 posts)They want them guns. I say let's help 'em out.
liberalhistorian
(20,816 posts)of white supremacist mouth-breathing firebrands, open bars, plenty of area bars, in a city with a very large African-American population. Yeah. Ain't nothing gonna go wrong there, no sirree.
And if I know Cleveland cops and the so-called "justice" system there (and I grew up there and have family still in the area, so I DO know Cleveland cops and the so-called "justice" system there) they're not gonna do squat to any convention-goers who do get out of line, they'll blame those the lovely conventioneers will be harassing.
applegrove
(118,600 posts)thousand guns carriers when the party establishment tries to take the nomination away from Trump. That would be a terrifying place to be.
Maru Kitteh
(28,333 posts)after all of the lip-flapping we've endured from the ammosexuals about how much safer we would be if every 'Murican was packing and gun-free zones are themselves responsible for violence.
These are their people. Let them walk without fear through the valley of the shadow of the NRA, comforted by the armed embrace of thousands of their fellow law-abiding citizens.
If they don't, they prove themselves cowards and hypocrites.
Let the games begin