The GOP has no problem taking bri . . ., er, donations from the NRA but there's no way in hell they're going to let delegates in who are packing.

PLEASE, PLEASE make this so. Don't you just love it - they got to make a choice between gun-carrying and alcohol

by not serving alcohol. The good ol' boys will bring their own in hip flasks.

Then again there is that pesky twenty first amendment. Does twenty one beat two?

Dang it, why can't we just have both like we do at home?

then I want someone to shout 'Fire'!

Sounds reasonable to me.

I guess we'll find out.

might change their tune if there is a shooting. <clip>Republican Party of Texas Chairman Steve Munisteri noted that 1995 law permitted concealed handguns, even if the legislature had not yet legalized openly carrying rifles in establishments that sell alcohol.

“We expect to have people there carrying weapons,” Munisteri explained. “It’s a Republican crowd and that’s a crowd that’s used to people packing.

“If the city and the convention center leave it up to us, we will allow open carry and, of course, anyone with a concealed-carry license.”<end clip>

The Repubs are OK with the open carriers recently harassing an ex-Marine in downtown Ft. Worth, because freedom. Let's see how like that convention hall, populated by knuckle-draggers with assault rifles. Think Frank Sinatra in the finale of the original "The Manchurian Candidate" movie.......

A while ago, I suggested that any repug would have to have a McConnell moment where he/she raises a weapon in the air at a convention. If they refuse, they wouldn't stand a chance of being nominated or elected.

unzipped with their dicks hanging out, nobody would notice.

Wolf

Allow me to support their putative second amendment rights.

why not the convention. Also I vote that all types of guns be allowed at the NRA headquarters, offices, and the American congress!

shooting would occur and a lot of dead and injured.

... they will be a bunch of "fire crackers", and with alcohol being served, "lit fire crackers" are pretty much guaranteed.

And you rid Texas of all the Repuke delegates...I really can see this happening.

......someone getting shot at a Repub convention! Looks like we're getting closer.

In any case, I don't want to be within a couple of miles of the convention center!

and a long fuse. I'm going to want to be long gone when those go off.

Could get interesting.

have some power in this country.

that recently passed into law a "carry everywhere" gun bill, WITH THE ONE EXCEPTION BEING THE STATE CAPITAL?

It's sorta like watching a NASCAR race. You hope nothing bad will happen, but still...

Thomas Jefferson carried a HAND PHASER SET ON STUN.

is they are a bunch of jackwagons.

These posts from TX I am embarrassed for my mom's maiden name Tarrant... how is it possible?

kill them selves off... That would be nice.

Destroy all guns in America. ALL, save for those that are locked up in the military armory. It's time. It's way past time.

The attitude in Texas is "An unloaded gun can't be used to defend anyone." So a unloaded gun is just a club.
I think anyone who carries an Unloaded AK-47 to the Republican convention is JUST A PUSSY! They're Un-Texan!!!
ALL Texas should carry loaded AK-47's all the time, including while in a bar drinking, at weddings and Christmas pageants, at the voting booths, in hospitals, to grade school Open Houses, to high school graduations, to Cowboy games and in mental institutions. That way, at a moments notice, they can All kill each other's children and parents and in the long run, make America a better place.
If everyone in the convention is openly carrying, what would be the point of metal detectors, and body guards?
Republicans love gun rights, until one of their own family members is killed by an idiot with one.