Guns banned from NRA speech

[struggle4progress]

By Kevin Liptak, CNN White House Producer
Updated 4:41 PM ET, Thu April 27, 2017

Atlanta (CNN) The US Secret Service said Thursday attendees at President Donald Trump's speech Friday at the National Rifle Association's annual meetings in Atlanta will have to leave their firearms outside ...

http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/27/politics/secret-service-trump-nra-guns/

[rgbecker]

1. Wait a minute. Guns don't people, people kill people.

God I hope there are no bad actors there, no good guys with guns will be able to stop them!

[Coventina]

2. Beat me to it! I don't see what the problem could POSSIBLY be?

All those responsible gun owners...should be the safest place in the world!

[Kablooie]

13. Then people should be banned from Trump's speech, not guns.

[Permanut]

3. 2nd amendment!!1!11 2nd amendment!1!!

[Kablooie]

14. 2nd half of the 2nd amendment! 2nd half of the 2nd amendment!

[Permanut]

18. Oh, wait, that's right..

we ignore the first half. Forgot that for a minute.

[benld74]

4. Hypocrites

[hack89]

6. Who? The Secret Service?

They appear to me to be remarkably consistent in their attitude regarding guns around the President.

[benld74]

12. No. NRA for pete sake. They'd be howling to the moon IF Obama secret service said this.

And I know Obama would not speak at their function.

[hack89]

15. Even though Obama was good to gun owners

They would never invite him. He was too important to them as the devil incarnate. He made them a lot of money.

[aikoaiko]

22. Good for gun makers and sellers. Not owners.

The prices went way up and President Obama did lead the biggest anti-gun legislative effort since the 1968 Gun Control Act.

[hack89]

29. I never felt concerned about him.

He nibbled around the edges but was never a substantial threat to my civil rights.

[kairos12]

5. The Secret Service should let in all the gun toting teabaggers.

[Permanut]

7. Agreed..

What could go wrong?

[kentuck]

8. Guns don't kill people...

What are they afraid of ?

[UTUSN]

9. So he's not safe among his nutcase supporters?!1 n/t

[former9thward]

32. Secret Service rules.

They would have the same rules if Obama was speaking at an ACLU meting.

[UTUSN]

33. With the difference of the probability of actual threat.

[former9thward]

34. No difference in threat.

But the SS does not deal in probabilities.

[rogue emissary]

10. Interesting they didn't mind "Big Government" overreach to see Donny blather into a microphone.

Also, Firearms weren't the only thing the Secret Service banned.

[Hekate]

11. Golly. I cannot imagine why.

[hunter]

16. They told me an armed society is a polite society.

So I'm guessing they just wanted to be rude.

[jmowreader]

17. Gee, I wonder why.

It's not like you have a room full of rabid teabaggers, half of whom believe Trump is The New Messiah and the other half is pissed off that he didn't repeal Obamacare, Medicaid, all gun control laws including the National Firearms Act, all welfare programs, run off all the Mexicans and Muslims, complete the wall and eliminate their taxes in the first month of his maladministration.

[Permanut]

19. You hit all the important ones except..

putting that criminal librul Hillary Cliinton in jail.

[jmowreader]

20. No, I didn't miss that one

On that, they agree.

[Permanut]

31. True..

You're right, they're all Hillary haters.

[Ninsianna]

21. Where are all the people who bemoan those banning guns from being carried

(and coddled) and those doing the banning having armed security?

[burrowowl]

23. O my Goodness!

[Vinca]

24. Let me guess. They're afraid a nut will go on the rampage with a firearm.

Just like at the grocery store, fast food restaurant, movie theatre, elementary school, work place, college campus, Interstate overpass . . . Thanks, NRA.

[Wiseman32218]

25. Why would the Secret Service allow guns where ever the POTUS is?

I don't like Trump at all, but the Secret Service still has a job to do. This is a non-story.

[lindysalsagal]

26. If he wants to pander, let 45 in there w/guns, and let the ss stay home and be safe!

I don't want tnything to happen to the ss!

[HAB911]

27. The company some keep

https://www.democraticunderground.com/1172203296

[dubyadiprecession]

28. As long as only members of the NRA are allowed there.

They should be able to listen to Trump while holding their favorite semi automatic weapon.Trump can also hold a rifle in one hand like Saddam Hussein and fire it into the air from the stage.

Who really wants to stop them from having fun at their meeting???

[spanone]

30. Brains banned from NRA speech