Think about it....allowing firearms into a convention that is likely to be emotionally-charged, and where the possibility exists where the voice of the people may be ignored. Say that the GOPe does indeed find a way to ignore what the voters want...say one of those 'angry people' decide that "enough is enough", draws his or her firearm, and does something egregiously stupid. Chaos erupts and the Democrats sit back and laugh.
Does this make any kind of sense?
You are giving the standard anti-gun creed.
Either you trust the people or you must work for the government
No sense at all. Can the Secret Service can protect the Pres/VP nominees effectively? At minimum, would make their job much harder.
Like you posted, a kook left winger/RINO/blogger-journOlist gets in to the event and causes trouble? And of course the MSM blames the GOP and right-wing gun fanatics.
I do not know Ohio’s laws, but I assume that like Arizona, the owner of the facility can decide if they want to allow the citizens to exercise their 2nd Amendment right. Is Quicken Loans Arena owned by Quicken Loans or is it a government owned facility?
If owned by Quicken Loans, pressure can be applied to them by refusing to do business with them.
If it is Government owned, They decide and there ain’t much that can be done.
Remember, WE vote - They Decide.
Yes it makes perfect sense since the ones who are violent do not do so where they know victims can shoot back.
I'm guessing there won't be too much hanky panky taking place in front a large and well armed group of slightly aggravated voters.
But then there is the stupid factor.
:-)
Must see t.v. heh.
Well if anyone decides to start shooting they won’t get off more than a few bullets before they are taken out. I don’t think it will erupt in chaos, in fact it may clean the party out of the Democrat operatives who are OBVIOUSLY posing as Republicans. If some of them demand a Democrat operative like Paul Ryan to be the nominee, the people will not stand for that, these Democrats will have exposed themselves as Democrat operatives and it may in fact get them ejected from the building never mind the party which should have happened a long time ago.
Ohio is an open carry state. It makes as much sense to OC in the convention as it would anywhere.
4 years ago Tampa went smoothly. The lib mayor in Tampa tried to ban CCW in the secure Tampa downtown area. Gov. Rick Scott said no. I was there. It was only the keys convention buildings that prohibited carrying. I walked the streets and hotels CCW without anyone stopping me. Even the hallways and lobby of the hotel Romney stayed in was fine for CCW. They were searching and scanning vehicles inside and underneath for devices, but never scanned me or my pockets, just the vehicle I drove in.
This is a creative Democrat dirty trick designed to make Republicans look bad. We just have many too dense to get it. It would make the secret service’s job impossible.
CCW holders are more law-abiding than police and prosecutors, but don’t let facts stand in the way of your concern-trolling, Mr. Alinsky.
“An armed society is a polite society.” - Robert A. Heinlein
Open carry at the Convention will certainly deter the Democrats from showing up. They’re afraid of guns so this would be like putting out garlic to ward off vampires!