Just because a candidate is there should not cancel your rights. If a candidate wants to stop into a country store in a state where CCW is legal, the SS should live with the fact that there may be people legally carrying. If that bothers them, then they should stay away.
And indeed, my understanding is that they *do* live with that fact. I know that I have been within touching distance of several presidential candidates while carrying at least one firearm. Nobody got in my face about it, nor was it national news. Although on one occasion Giuliani’s handlers did ask me to conceal it, so as not to bother the sheeple.
What upsets me is the apparent flaunting of 18 USC 922(q) as a purported excuse for banning firearms from the curtilege of yesterday’s venue, including the street. Even though this “Gun Free School Zones Act” runs roughshod over states’ rights and has, in any event, been deemed clearly unconstitutional by SCOTUS.