MaggieD
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Before the latest shootings in Baton Rouge, I was thinking there should be a temporary ban on open carry around the RNC. Now I think it's imperative.
Cops are targets right now. We have an obligation to them to do what we can to address their fears. We need a temporary ban on open carry around the RNC immediately.
If I were a LEO assigned to police the RNC, I would insist on it. We cannot just throw law enforcement into the lion's den.
Making the Republican convention a "gun-free zone?"
Oh, the irony...
No, common sense in a target rich environment.
The right to bear arms shall not be infringed upon.
Guns for everyone! :shoot
Before the latest shootings in Baton Rouge, I was thinking there should be a temporary ban on open carry around the RNC. Now I think it's imperative.
Cops are targets right now. We have an obligation to them to do what we can to address their fears. We need a temporary ban on open carry around the RNC immediately.
If I were a LEO assigned to police the RNC, I would insist on it. We cannot just throw law enforcement into the lion's den.
If everybody had a gun, they'd be perfectly safe. Safer actually.
Why only ban open carry and only during that particular event?
Were the LEOs in Baton Rouge not at "elevated" risk too?
Once you start down the "just declare a possible future emergency" road then the precedent for acting on hunches (fears?) is firmly established.
Best to just go ahead and declare full martial law, IMHO.
We're already infringing.
THAT RIGHT THERE is senseless. Just how comfortable will cops feel with hundreds of people carrying weapons? Safer my ass.
THAT RIGHT THERE is senseless. Just how comfortable will cops feel with hundreds of people carrying weapons? Safer my ass.
Before the latest shootings in Baton Rouge, I was thinking there should be a temporary ban on open carry around the RNC. Now I think it's imperative.
Cops are targets right now. We have an obligation to them to do what we can to address their fears. We need a temporary ban on open carry around the RNC immediately.
If I were a LEO assigned to police the RNC, I would insist on it. We cannot just throw law enforcement into the lion's den.
No. I don't agree. I don't have any obligation to the police, as they have none to me. If the police cant handle people exerting their rights, they need to find another job. They knew what they getting into when they hired on, now is when they earn their pay.
When it comes to guns, gunners lose all sense of reason.
THAT RIGHT THERE is senseless. Just how comfortable will cops feel with hundreds of people carrying weapons? Safer my ass.
I find your attitude disgusting. Misguided. Criminal.
I find your attitude disgusting. Misguided. Criminal.
We're already infringing. The convention center is a gun free zone. Now let's protect the cops. Massacre in the making. I can see the headlines now.
Until it is your local PD that decides that they would "feel much safer" if guns were banned where you live, work or shop. I noticed that you still allowed CCW - perhaps so you could keep your own gun handy?
Consider this.
People in the inner-cities have to live with rampant gun violence and the people attending this convention could care less.
I think it is poetic justice that they be forced to abide by their own measure and allow an open display of weaponry among pissed off, white, armed republicans, packed in a convention center like a sardine can.
How come this is a concern now? They're not concerned about all the pissed off black people with guns over at Cabrini Green. Why should we make a special dispensation just because the massed multitudes are white, god fearin' people?
I find your attitude disgusting. Misguided. Criminal.
No cop has ever considered my comfort. I am most certainly not inclined to consider theirs. They cant handle the job as it is, then they ought find one more suited to their sensibilities.
Nonsense. Most cops always consider your comfort. That's why they go into a battle zone without suiting up for battle and end up dead.
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