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Pennsylvania Mayor Pulls Police From NRA Gun Show (demanded a 60% fee increase)
freebeacon.com ^

Posted on 01/11/2016 4:33:47 PM PST by Red in Blue PA

The mayor of Harrisburg, Penn., ordered his police department on Friday not to provide security for an upcoming NRA-sponsored gun show after the association refused to meet a demand to pay a 60-percent increase in fees for the service.

Harrisburg police have provided security for the annual Great American Outdoors Show, scheduled this year for February 6-14, in the past. Mayor Eric Papenfuse said that the decision not to offer the department’s services this year was motivated in part by the NRA’s opposition to the city’s gun control policies.

“We have an epidemic of gun violence,” Papenfuse told WHTM. “It’s no secret that the NRA has worked against the city’s interests repeatedly over the past year causing us to spend tens of thousands of dollars to defend common sense gun ordinances. We don’t need to be doing them any favors.”

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: anglist; banglist; ericpapenfuse; guncontrol; harrisburg; nra; pa; pennylvania
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To: Red in Blue PA

Harrisburg is only 30% white.

Hmmmm !

I wonder if that could account for the high crime?


21 posted on 01/11/2016 4:51:03 PM PST by Mears
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To: Red in Blue PA

The Farm Show Complex is owned by the Pa Dept of Agriculture not Harrisburg. The mayor can go pound sand. Cops are not needed anyway, 90% of the visitors could be armed.


22 posted on 01/11/2016 4:56:28 PM PST by Clean_Sweep
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To: DiogenesLamp

America doen’t have a gun problem....it has a democRAT problem.

Everything they do ends up in failure.


23 posted on 01/11/2016 5:01:22 PM PST by Ouderkirk (To the left, everything must evidence that this or that strand of leftist theory is true)
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To: ZULU
Runs a bookstore

is it one of those XXX stores with the video booths that lock from the inside?

24 posted on 01/11/2016 5:07:06 PM PST by Michael.SF. (That was the gift the president gave us, the gift of happiness, of being together,' Cindy Sheehan")
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To: ScottinVA

Wonder if this is some set-up for material for the Fraud’s narrative at his POS state of the union speech....

“I have ordered local LEO’s whenever they can not to support the evil NRA....”

... and of course to “stand down and let them have space to destroy” when the local Hussein Heads riot, burn and loot.


25 posted on 01/11/2016 5:11:07 PM PST by treetopsandroofs (Had FDR been GOP, there would have been no World Wars, just "The Great War" and "Roosevelt's Wars".)
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To: ZULU

“But what do you expect from a guy who names his kids Chauncey and Everett?”

A private school education ofcourse!


26 posted on 01/11/2016 5:12:56 PM PST by Autonomous User (During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.)
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To: Red in Blue PA

no problemo, militias to the fore, we can easily protect our own.


27 posted on 01/11/2016 5:20:28 PM PST by LeoWindhorse
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To: Michael.SF.

Bill Clinton said it was a high class place, because they would mop up after each cusromer..


28 posted on 01/11/2016 5:30:46 PM PST by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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To: txrefugee
Idaho sounds like Weenie World. They never should have let the Californians in.

Boise is thick with Democrats. Similar situation around the Sun Valley/Ketchum/Hailey area. The rest of the state is very conservative. Total state population is 1.7 million. The county of San Diego had 3.2 million in 2013. City of San Diego 1.3 million.

29 posted on 01/11/2016 5:34:52 PM PST by Myrddin
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To: Red in Blue PA

There will be plenty of federal agents. Who needs the police?


30 posted on 01/11/2016 5:41:03 PM PST by chulaivn66 (Oh stranger, tell the Lacedaemonians that we lie here, trusting their words.)
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To: Myrddin
2012 Election map Romney(red), Obama(blue)


31 posted on 01/11/2016 5:49:58 PM PST by Myrddin
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To: Red in Blue PA

Sounds to me like the good people of Harrisburg have elected themselves a short sighted liberal (what’s this blaming the NRA for their inner city negro crime problem) that will be costing them literally TONS of revenue. Haven’t they learned from history how this plays out?


32 posted on 01/11/2016 5:51:36 PM PST by Blue Collar Christian (Ready for Teddy, Cruz that is.)
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To: Red in Blue PA
Keep pushing it a-holes. You have no idea....

FMCDH(BITS)

33 posted on 01/11/2016 5:52:53 PM PST by nothingnew (Hemmer and MacCullum are the worst on FNC)
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To: Red in Blue PA
...causing us to spend tens of thousands of dollars to defend common sense gun ordinances.

Ordinances that are in violation of state law.

34 posted on 01/11/2016 5:54:26 PM PST by Stentor
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To: Red in Blue PA

Sue the city and hire a couple of $9/hr rent-a-cops.


35 posted on 01/11/2016 6:06:27 PM PST by ozzymandus
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To: DiogenesLamp

He’s probably a dork democrat one of many that has destroyed a nice city, i’ve been to the harrisburg gunshow and it doesn’t need any security.


36 posted on 01/11/2016 6:18:03 PM PST by kvanbrunt2
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To: Clean_Sweep

The Farm Show Complex is owned by the Pa Dept of Agriculture not Harrisburg. The mayor can go pound sand. Cops are not needed anyway, 90% of the visitors could be armed.>>>>>
been there all of the visitors are armed. was there when bush v gore was settled in court place erupted.


37 posted on 01/11/2016 6:20:59 PM PST by kvanbrunt2
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To: Red in Blue PA

Can we put this “gun violence epidemic” crap to bed please? Violent crime is DOWN. Anyone who says different should be ridiculed.


38 posted on 01/11/2016 6:26:32 PM PST by ez (Abashed the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is... - Milton)
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To: ZULU
Must be DamnocRat mayor.

Are there any state capitols anymore that aren't Democrat strongholds? They have thousands of union organized government employees in those cities who most often do not reflect the views of the majority of the state.

39 posted on 01/11/2016 6:59:07 PM PST by Ditto
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To: Red in Blue PA

Harrisburg is a sanctuary city and heavy populated by Obama’s people.

The mayor should be concerned about criminal violence and less the behavior of inanimate objects.

The foof should be paying the NRA to come to the city. It is dying.


40 posted on 01/11/2016 7:30:14 PM PST by School of Rational Thought
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