Will Ohio Allow Open Carry at the GOP Convention?

[Nbadan]

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RECOGNIZE OUR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO OPEN CARRY FIREARMS AT THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION AT THE
QUICKEN LOANS ARENA IN JULY 2016

There's a petition to allow 'open carry' at the GOP convention.....and it's not from the Onion!!!!
Believe it or else: Some one has actually posted a petition on Change.org to allow open carry of firearms during the RNC convention.


RECOGNIZE OUR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO OPEN CARRY FIREARMS AT THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION AT THE QUICKEN LOANS ARENA IN JULY 2016

SUMMARY: In July of 2016, the GOP will host its convention at the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio. Though Ohio is an open carry state, which allows for the open carry of guns, the hosting venue—the Quicken Loans Arena—strictly forbids the carry of firearms on their premises.

According to the policy on their website, "firearms and other weapons of any kind are strictly forbidden on the premises of Quicken Loans Arena."


This is a direct affront to the Second Amendment and puts all attendees at risk. As the National Rifle Association has made clear, "gun-free zones" such as the Quicken Loans Arena are "the worst and most dangerous of all lies." The NRA, our leading defender of gun rights, has also correctly pointed out that "gun free zones... tell every insane killer in America... (the) safest place to inflict maximum mayhem with minimum risk." (March 4, 2016 and Dec. 21, 2012)

https://www.change.org/p/quicken-loans-arena-allow-open-carry-of-firearms-at-the-quicken-loans-arena-during-the-rnc-convention-in-july-2


I'm not certain whether this is serious, or an attempt at satire; it's hard to tell the difference anymore!!!!! Maybe they should just change the name to the 'NRA Convention.'

I signed....

[TheSanityAnnex]

As an gun enthusiast I hate the open carry faggots, but really who gives a shit if they are allowed to be faggots at the convention. No one will be shot.

[Splits]

What could possibly go wrong? Everyone knows gun owners are the most responsible people in the history of the universe. The Republican campaign has been a model of civility and elevated discourse, there's no bad blood between the candidates. People carrying killing machines would have absolutely no effect on the debate or decision making of the delegates, the exercising of the "2nd amendment" has absolutely no impact on those exercising their free-speech rights. These are things we "know".

[Splits]

:lmao some of the comments


If there is one thing that a herd of violently fractious racist simpletons need when compressed together in an emotionally-charged atmosphere of hate and entitlement, it would have to be that they all deserve to be heavily, heavily armed. A gun-free convention means that the terrorists and liberals win.

(https://www.change.org/p/quicken-loans-arena-allow-open-carry-of-firearms-at-the-quicken-loans-arena-during-the-rnc-convention-in-july-2/c/421017941)Stanley Stritzel, Wichita, KS

(https://www.change.org/p/quicken-loans-arena-allow-open-carry-of-firearms-at-the-quicken-loans-arena-during-the-rnc-convention-in-july-2/c/421017941)

Moses didn't come down off the mountain with the sacred Constitution for some libtard to amend it! It's our GD right!
(https://www.change.org/p/quicken-loans-arena-allow-open-carry-of-firearms-at-the-quicken-loans-arena-during-the-rnc-convention-in-july-2/c/420288707)Zen Sutherland, Asheville, NC

(https://www.change.org/p/quicken-loans-arena-allow-open-carry-of-firearms-at-the-quicken-loans-arena-during-the-rnc-convention-in-july-2/c/420288707)

Don't you want this to be the safest political convention EVER
(https://www.change.org/p/quicken-loans-arena-allow-open-carry-of-firearms-at-the-quicken-loans-arena-during-the-rnc-convention-in-july-2/c/420305243)Clark Glover, Jensen Beach, FL

(https://www.change.org/p/quicken-loans-arena-allow-open-carry-of-firearms-at-the-quicken-loans-arena-during-the-rnc-convention-in-july-2/c/420305243)

please don't let Obama take my guns..or make me have to get gay married..my job sucks, so he can give it to a mexican if he wants.
(https://www.change.org/p/quicken-loans-arena-allow-open-carry-of-firearms-at-the-quicken-loans-arena-during-the-rnc-convention-in-july-2/c/420380591)victor morris, Homestead, FL

(https://www.change.org/p/quicken-loans-arena-allow-open-carry-of-firearms-at-the-quicken-loans-arena-during-the-rnc-convention-in-july-2/c/420380591)

If I have to live, work, go to school and shop in "gun zones" there should be no gun free zones for Republicans either. We wouldn't want to take away anybody's Second Amendment rights. Let the hypocrisy be gone.
(https://www.change.org/p/quicken-loans-arena-allow-open-carry-of-firearms-at-the-quicken-loans-arena-during-the-rnc-convention-in-july-2/c/420997352)Jakie Lewis, Gettysburg, PA

(https://www.change.org/p/quicken-loans-arena-allow-open-carry-of-firearms-at-the-quicken-loans-arena-during-the-rnc-convention-in-july-2/c/420997352)Signing because... 10/10: expert troll job. The people who flood America's streets with guns should indeed get to experience their civility-eroding, discourse-stifling, violence-inculcating properties this July. Maybe after a shootout inevitably erupts between bearded, obese, camouflage-clad men in 'Make America Great Again' hats over who gets the last bacon-wrapped vienna sausage at the hillbilly hors-d'oeuvre station, the leaders of this dying experiment in quasi-anarchist politics will promptly reconsider their abjectly stupid positions. (I mean, probably not, since several dozen grade-schoolers getting shot to death somehow strengthened their pro-gun resolve; but hey, a guy can dream...)
Dan Holley, Pearl Harbor, HI
(https://www.change.org/p/quicken-loans-arena-allow-open-carry-of-firearms-at-the-quicken-loans-arena-during-the-rnc-convention-in-july-2/c/422186948)
I cannot stand idly by and witness the erosion of our most sacred constitutional right, putting the safety of its defenders at grave risk by placing them all in this ILLEGAL "gun-free" zone. Make the convention safe again!
Jeff Avella, Irvine, CA

(https://www.change.org/p/quicken-loans-arena-allow-open-carry-of-firearms-at-the-quicken-loans-arena-during-the-rnc-convention-in-july-2/c/422032295)

[boutons_deux]

Gun fellators are stupid, ignorant mofos.

[boutons_deux]

Senator, fearing violence, may skip Republican convention

About a week ago, Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump was asked what might happen if his party denies him the nomination at July’s convention in Cleveland. “I think you’d have riots,” Trump replied (http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/trump-raises-the-prospect-riots-republican-convention). “I think you’d have riots. I’m representing a tremendous many, many millions of people.”

Sen. Dean Heller (R) of Nevada has watched all of this play out, and according to (http://www.reviewjournal.com/politics/elections/heller-expresses-safety-concerns-about-testy-upcoming-republican-national) the Las Vegas Review-Journal, the senator may skip his own party’s convention “over concerns of his own safety.”

“Things could get pretty testy,” the Nevada Republican told KSNV-TV, Channel 3, which reported Heller had seen recent protests at Donald Trump rallies.

“Frankly my biggest concern is security, whether or not I feel it is safe enough to attend a convention.”


what does it say about the state of Republican politics in 2016 that a sitting U.S. senator, after listening to his own party’s presidential frontrunner, concedes publicly that he might avoid the party’s national convention for fear of possible violence?


http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/senator-fearing-violence-may-skip-republican-convention?cid=sm_fb_maddow

There's lots of drinking at convention "parties", and surely gun fellatin Repugs will be packing heat. A great combination.

[DMX7]

Trump should lead the push for open carry at the convention.

[Warlord23]

Trump should lead the push for open carry at the convention.

You're right. This is an issue that can carry him to 1237 delegates easily, even as Lyin' Ted Cruz loses credibility with God-fearing, patriotic, family-first real Americans

[Trill Clinton]

petition signed. what could go wrong with a room full of drunk, angry,racist, homophobic, liver spotted rednecks armed with their favorite handguns and rifles? http://i64.tinypic.com/2ag6x5h.png

[Trill Clinton]

they need to have trump come out to this song by the best group to come out of cleveland to set the tone


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRQg5WdTk7U

[TheSanityAnnex]

petition signed. what could go wrong with a room full of drunk, angry,racist, homophobic, liver spotted rednecks armed with their favorite handguns and rifles? http://i64.tinypic.com/2ag6x5h.png
I can guarantee you it won't be worse than an average day in Chicago.

[DeadlyDynasty]

This isn't The Source Awards, nothing would happen

[boutons_deux]

I can guarantee you it won't be worse than an average day in Chicago.

so armed Repugs in their national convention are better than Chicago gang members. :lol you gun fellators are so fucking stupid.

[boutons_deux]

Petition to allow guns at Republican National Convention cracks 24,000 signatures

http://www.rawstory.com/2016/03/petition-to-allow-guns-at-republican-national-convention-cracks-24000-signatures/

[Pelicans78]

so armed Repugs in their national convention are better than Chicago gang members. :lol you gun fellators are so fucking stupid.

Less likely chance of violence compared to Chicago gang members who kill every day.

[boutons_deux]

Less likely chance of violence compared to Chicago gang members who kill every day.

:lol So gun fellatin Repugs are better than murderous drug gangs? give yourself a big fucking pat on the back! :lol

[DMX7]

This isn't The Source Awards, nothing would happen

If Trump doesn't get the nomination, something could happen. Remember the 'riots' he talked about? :lol

[Splits]

On the Sunday morning talk shows, Trump declined to discuss the petition at length.

“I have not seen the petition,” Trump said on ABC. “I want to see what it says. I want to read the fine print. I have to see what it says. I’m a very, very strong person for Second Amendment. I think very few people are stronger. And I have to see the petition.”


When host Jonathan Karl asked Trump to put the specific petition aside and delineate more broadly about the notion of delegates carrying firearms at the convention, Trump refused to consider the prospect.


“I don’t want to forget the petition,” Trump told Karl. “It’s the first I hear about it — of it, and frankly, you know, nobody is stronger on the Second Amendment than me. But I would like to take a look at it.”

Pussy.

[boutons_deux]

Up to 33K sigs now, and inevitably growing.

[TheSanityAnnex]

Pussy.
You seem to be a fan of ELE bets. If they are allowed to open carry at the convention and no one shoots anyone you leave for good. If someone gets shot I'm gone for good.

You in?

[Splits]

You seem to be a fan of ELE bets. If they are allowed to open carry at the convention and no one shoots anyone you leave for good. If someone gets shot I'm gone for good.

You in?

If you amend "no one shoots anyone" to "not a shot goes off", sure.

[TheSanityAnnex]

If you amend "no one shoots anyone" to "not a shot goes off", sure.
Pussy. You are doing the exact same thing that you accused hater of doing with your ELE bet.

My is on the table. Take it or leave it.

[Splits]

Pussy. You are doing the exact same thing that you accused hater of doing with your ELE bet.

I never claimed there would be a gunfight.

You're not confident that your fellow gun nuts are so responsible that someone might accidentally pop one off?

You're the pussy for trying to hedge.

[TheSanityAnnex]

I never claimed there would be a gunfight.

You're not confident that your fellow gun nuts are so responsible that someone might accidentally pop one off?

You're the pussy for trying to hedge.
I offered you the ELE. If you don't like the terms just say you won't take it.

[Splits]

I offered you the ELE. If you don't like the terms just say you won't take it.

So you do think it is likely that one of your ideological idiots would accidentally pop one off. Good to know.

[Nbadan]

Secret Service: We’re not allowing firearms at the Republican National Convention
Source: Washington Post


The Secret Service on Monday quashed the hopes of gun rights advocates who were pushing for the open carry of firearms to be allowed at this summer's Republican National Convention.

An online petition to allow open carry of firearms at the event rapidly gained signatures and attention in the past week, applying pressure to pro-gun Republican officials and presidential contenders to walk the walk when it comes to guns. But on Monday, the Secret Service, said it has decided only to allow law enforcement personnel to carry firearms at the event

"Title 18 United States Code Sections 3056 and 1752, provides the Secret Service authority to preclude firearms from entering sites visited by our protectees, including those located in open-carry states," Secret Service spokesman Robert K. Hoback said in a statement. "Only authorized law enforcement personnel working in conjunction with the Secret Service for a particular event may carry a firearm inside of the protected site."

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/03/28/more-than-42000-people-have-signed-a-petition-to-allow-guns-at-the-republican-national-convention

Guns are fine in Churches, Bars and Colleges....

[Splits]

lol

[Mitch]

:cry b...b...but muh 2nd amendment rights

:lol anybody who thinks about bringing a gun to a republican convention should be put on a list

[RandomGuy]

As an gun enthusiast I hate the open carry faggots, but really who gives a shit if they are allowed to be faggots at the convention. No one will be shot.

They are creatures of your making. You and people who worship these tools create the environment where fanaticism like this flourishes.

http://www.webdonuts.com/comics-archive/2008-05-30-When-the-chickens-come-home.jpg

[RandomGuy]

So you do think it is likely that one of your ideological idiots would accidentally pop one off. Good to know.

http://pre13.deviantart.net/2a01/th/pre/i/2013/365/1/8/pc__yosemite_sam_by_lotusbandicoot-d707gc3.png

It will be... comical... if so.

[TheSanityAnnex]

They are creatures of your making. You and people who worship these tools create the environment where fanaticism like this flourishes.

http://www.webdonuts.com/comics-archive/2008-05-30-When-the-chickens-come-home.jpg what a load of bullshit :lol

[DMX7]

Secret Service: We’re not allowing firearms at the Republican National Convention
Source: Washington Post



Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/03/28/more-than-42000-people-have-signed-a-petition-to-allow-guns-at-the-republican-national-convention

Guns are fine in Churches, Bars and Colleges....

Note one of the GOP candidates said "bring them in". I thought they loved the 2nd amendment???

[boutons_deux]

Why is the United States such a gun-happy society? It's time to find out

Bang, bang, we're dead.

More than 196,000 people died of gunshot wounds in the United States between 2009 and 2014,

according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (http://www.latimes.com/topic/health/diseases-illnesses/u.s.-centers-for-disease-control-prevention-ORGOV000011-topic.html).

An additional 400,000 suffered nonfatal gunshot wounds from 2009 to 2013 (the last year for which that data is available).

Nearly 600,000 victims in all, from toddlers picking up unattended guns to suicides to domestic violence casualties to those killed in mass shootings.

Why is the United States such a gun-happy society?

Are there demographic or other factors that distinguish people who use firearms against others? What effect do gun-control laws have on gun violence?

These are among the many questions that call out for serious independent inquiry. But few such studies are done, primarily because of an NRA (http://www.latimes.com/topic/crime-law-justice/national-rifle-association-of-america-ORCIG000080-topic.html)-inspired bit of legislation that in 1996 stripped the CDC, the obvious federal agency to explore the public health aspects of gun violence, of the ability to conduct any research that would “advocate or promote gun control.”

It's reprehensible that a single lobbying group wields that kind of power — and has had such a disastrous impact on public safety. According to a January report by the Council on Foreign Relations, the U.S. has only 5% of the world's population but as much as half of the world's civilian-owned firearms. Not surprisingly, our gun homicide rate far exceeds those of other developed nations.

Yet the agency charged with conducting scientific research on public health is effectively muzzled, out of fear that a study might be perceived as promoting or advocating gun control. Only a relative handful of academics nationwide regularly try to analyze gun-violence data.

http://www.latimes.com/opinion/editorials/na-ed-gun-violence-research-20160329-story.html

America isn't gun happy. A small minority of gun-fellatin perverts is gun happy, suckered, duped, misinformed by BigGun and its whores in NRA and govt.

[Trainwreck2100]

Is the Q a private venue? If so, fuck your rights.

[TheSanityAnnex]

Why is the United States such a gun-happy society? It's time to find out

Bang, bang, we're dead.

More than 196,000 people died of gunshot wounds in the United States between 2009 and 2014,

according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (http://www.latimes.com/topic/health/diseases-illnesses/u.s.-centers-for-disease-control-prevention-ORGOV000011-topic.html).

An additional 400,000 suffered nonfatal gunshot wounds from 2009 to 2013 (the last year for which that data is available).

Nearly 600,000 victims in all, from toddlers picking up unattended guns to suicides to domestic violence casualties to those killed in mass shootings.

Why is the United States such a gun-happy society?

Are there demographic or other factors that distinguish people who use firearms against others? What effect do gun-control laws have on gun violence?

These are among the many questions that call out for serious independent inquiry. But few such studies are done, primarily because of an NRA (http://www.latimes.com/topic/crime-law-justice/national-rifle-association-of-america-ORCIG000080-topic.html)-inspired bit of legislation that in 1996 stripped the CDC, the obvious federal agency to explore the public health aspects of gun violence, of the ability to conduct any research that would “advocate or promote gun control.”

It's reprehensible that a single lobbying group wields that kind of power — and has had such a disastrous impact on public safety. According to a January report by the Council on Foreign Relations, the U.S. has only 5% of the world's population but as much as half of the world's civilian-owned firearms. Not surprisingly, our gun homicide rate far exceeds those of other developed nations.

Yet the agency charged with conducting scientific research on public health is effectively muzzled, out of fear that a study might be perceived as promoting or advocating gun control. Only a relative handful of academics nationwide regularly try to analyze gun-violence data.

http://www.latimes.com/opinion/editorials/na-ed-gun-violence-research-20160329-story.html

America isn't gun happy. A small minority of gun-fellatin perverts is gun happy, suckered, duped, misinformed by BigGun and its whores in NRA and govt.






43% of Americans have a gun in the home, hardly a small minority.

[RandomGuy]

what a load of bullshit :lol

That is what I would say, if I didn't want to admit responsibility for my extremist political views.

"why my beliefs and the hysterical environment my media encourages had NOTHING at all to do with these extremist nutters"

[TheSanityAnnex]

That is what I would say, if I didn't want to admit responsibility for my extremist political views.

"why my beliefs and the hysterical environment my media encourages had NOTHING at all to do with these extremist nutters"

more bullshit :lol

Please tell me about my extremist political views, this will be entertaining.

[hater]

Lol gun fellationers :lol

Glad they getting their shit pushed in on this issue.

Trump doesn't even like guns himself. He's just in it to win it :lol

[boutons_deux]

Earlier this month, the General Social Survey reported that gun ownership has declined to a record low (http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/major-survey-shows-gun-ownership-declining-29513899?singlePage=true). About half of all American households owned at least one gun in the 1970s. In 2014, only 31 percent had a firearm (http://www.allgov.com/news/controversies/as-hunting-and-gun-ownership-decline-remaining-gun-owners-stock-up-150312?news=855922).

The General Social Survey is considered the gold standard for polls. It’s based on face-to-face interviews going back four decades, conducted by the independent National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago and funded by the National Science Foundation.

The numbers reflect a long-term trend. During the same period, the percentage of households with a hunter plummeted from 32 to 15 percent. Other important factors during these decades: the percentage of the population living in urban areas increased from 73 (http://www.census.gov/population/www/censusdata/files/table-4.pdf) to 81 percent (https://ask.census.gov/faq.php?id=5000&faqId=5971) while the percentage of the US that is non-Hispanic White declined from 83 to 63 percent (http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/00000.html). The last demographic is important because, while 39 percent of White households possess firearms, only 18 percent of Black and 15 percent of Hispanic households have them.

http://billmoyers.com/2015/03/25/gun-ownership-declining-gun-lobby-powerful/

[.G.]

Man it's gonna so much fun when one day these fucking bubba's go COD on each other. Please, please, please let me get what I want. Entertainment. Laughs. More LULZ and some more entertainment.

[.G.]

Niggaz N Cleveland N shit

[boutons_deux]

Of course, ...

Texas Republicans will allow people to openly carry guns at its state convention

http://www.rawstory.com/2016/03/texas-republicans-will-allow-people-to-openly-carry-guns-at-its-state-convention/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

[Mitch]

Man it's gonna so much fun when one day these fucking bubba's go COD on each other. Please, please, please let me get what I want. Entertainment. Laughs. More LULZ and some more entertainment.

You sound like a failed abortion, tbh

[.G.]

:lol

[.G.]

http://sanibel-captiva.org/sanibel-island-fishing-/sanibel-island-fishing.jpg

[DarrinS]

http://thehill.com/homenews/news/274576-open-carry-petition-came-from-hillary-clinton-supporter

[Pelicans78]

Open carry is a pretty dumb idea when there are presidential candidates in the building. More than enough security should be available.

[ElNono]

Company Invents Gun That Folds Up to Look Like a Cellphone

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/company-invents-gun-folds-look-cellphone-n547221

[boutons_deux]

Company Invents Gun That Folds Up to Look Like a Cellphone

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/company-invents-gun-folds-look-cellphone-n547221

crazy, police shoot blacks all the time because they "feel threatened" by an object in the black's hand, aka, cellphone.

[pgardn]

Company Invents Gun That Folds Up to Look Like a Cellphone

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/company-invents-gun-folds-look-cellphone-n547221


Oh I gotta have that.

Should go great with the Private Pants that allow Mr. Johnson to hang free in public without being detected.

Comments from our customers: Peeing was never this easy. No zipper, no unstuff and restuff. Underwear? don't make me laugh. The guy waiting in line at the airport thanked me.


Wear it and be proud or conceal it, what a dilemma.