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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGOP Convention: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
Permitted handguns will be allowed in RNC's 'clean zone'http://www2.tbo.com/news/politics/2012/apr/02/permitted-handguns-will-be-allowed-in-citys-clean--ar-387365/
Tampa Mayor Bob Buckhorn and the other city bigwigs are coming up with all sorts of rules to try to contain the mayhem, including my personal favorite, which is to limit parades to 60 minutes so the riot cops can take a break from their humidity-retaining Imperial Stormtrooper suits.
Theyve banned all sorts of items, including super-soaker squirt guns and string, from the protest zone. But guess what they cant ban outside the Secret Service perimeter? Actual guns:
Conspicuously absent from the list of potential weapons: Firearms.
Thats because state law bans local governments from placing any restrictions on the carrying of guns in public spaces.
And thats because the brilliant Rick Scott administration allowed the NRA to run its wish list through the GOP super-majority state legislature. Is it possible for an entire state to perish from terminal stupidity? We may be about to find out.
http://www.balloon-juice.com/2012/04/02/what-could-possibly-go-wrong-3/
Rambis
(7,774 posts)DJ13
(23,671 posts)Chipper Chat
(9,692 posts)Newt's presence could ignite a "Gunfight at the gOKp Corral."
Wait Wut
(8,492 posts)Goes for his gun...fingers get caught in key ring...blows off knee cap. Winning.
I'm sure everyone will feel totally safe having a few hundred nutcases with itchy trigger fingers "protecting" their rights. As the Secret Service proclaims in a weary voice of solidarity, "What the serious fuck?".
Control-Z
(15,682 posts)Guns ok. Squirt guns not ok?
LonePirate
(13,431 posts)Other than clothing, signs and firearms, I'm not sure what you can bring to the protest zones. This is one crazy and scary society Republicans have created for us.
anti-alec
(420 posts)and needs to be addressed.
SYG laws are now in effect.
Everyone may shoot at each other.
I just hope that is the case in Tampa.
HooptieWagon
(17,064 posts)LongTomH
(8,636 posts)I remember a news report about a Religious Right type confronting a mainstream/moderate/Country Club Republican with the question: "Are you demon-possessed?" The concentration of nuts in the Republican granola has been increasing exponentially, and now they're armed!
BeHereNow
(17,162 posts)That is brilliant- made me LOL!
Is it yours, that saying?
It's really funny!
BHN
LongTomH
(8,636 posts)There's a saying about California being a mix of 'fruits, nuts and flakes!' I just emphasized the nuts for the GOP.
GoneOffShore
(17,341 posts)What were you thinking?
penndragon69
(788 posts)Tea baggers, romnyites and newtonians, all heavily armed and
starting an old fashioned shootout at the convention.
Whoever survives gets the nomination.
SWEET !
AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)Scalded Nun
(1,240 posts)I say someone inventive down there (and with a warped sense of humor) sets up a big booth outside of the convention. Above the booth goes a big sign with the works 'O.K. Corral'.
Then we just wait for the festivities to begin. I am sure there will be many feeling threatened on the first day alone.
Demeter
(85,373 posts)short of the Apocalypse?
snooper2
(30,151 posts)that included ass fat
Motown_Johnny
(22,308 posts)while the convention is going on.
It wouldn't surprise me a bit.