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By Kevin Liptak, CNN White House Producer
Updated 4:41 PM ET, Thu April 27, 2017
Atlanta (CNN) The US Secret Service said Thursday attendees at President Donald Trump's speech Friday at the National Rifle Association's annual meetings in Atlanta will have to leave their firearms outside ...
http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/27/politics/secret-service-trump-nra-guns/
rgbecker
(4,834 posts)God I hope there are no bad actors there, no good guys with guns will be able to stop them!
Coventina
(27,215 posts)All those responsible gun owners...should be the safest place in the world!
Kablooie
(18,642 posts)Permanut
(5,661 posts)Kablooie
(18,642 posts)Permanut
(5,661 posts)we ignore the first half. Forgot that for a minute.
benld74
(9,911 posts)hack89
(39,171 posts)They appear to me to be remarkably consistent in their attitude regarding guns around the President.
benld74
(9,911 posts)And I know Obama would not speak at their function.
hack89
(39,171 posts)They would never invite him. He was too important to them as the devil incarnate. He made them a lot of money.
aikoaiko
(34,185 posts)The prices went way up and President Obama did lead the biggest anti-gun legislative effort since the 1968 Gun Control Act.
hack89
(39,171 posts)He nibbled around the edges but was never a substantial threat to my civil rights.
kairos12
(12,882 posts)What could go wrong?
kentuck
(111,110 posts)What are they afraid of ?
UTUSN
(70,762 posts)former9thward
(32,097 posts)They would have the same rules if Obama was speaking at an ACLU meting.
UTUSN
(70,762 posts)former9thward
(32,097 posts)But the SS does not deal in probabilities.
rogue emissary
(3,148 posts)Also, Firearms weren't the only thing the Secret Service banned.
Hekate
(90,865 posts)hunter
(38,337 posts)So I'm guessing they just wanted to be rude.
jmowreader
(50,567 posts)It's not like you have a room full of rabid teabaggers, half of whom believe Trump is The New Messiah and the other half is pissed off that he didn't repeal Obamacare, Medicaid, all gun control laws including the National Firearms Act, all welfare programs, run off all the Mexicans and Muslims, complete the wall and eliminate their taxes in the first month of his maladministration.
Permanut
(5,661 posts)putting that criminal librul Hillary Cliinton in jail.
jmowreader
(50,567 posts)On that, they agree.
Permanut
(5,661 posts)You're right, they're all Hillary haters.
Ninsianna
(1,349 posts)(and coddled) and those doing the banning having armed security?
burrowowl
(17,653 posts)Vinca
(50,318 posts)Just like at the grocery store, fast food restaurant, movie theatre, elementary school, work place, college campus, Interstate overpass . . . Thanks, NRA.
Wiseman32218
(291 posts)I don't like Trump at all, but the Secret Service still has a job to do. This is a non-story.
lindysalsagal
(20,747 posts)I don't want tnything to happen to the ss!
HAB911
(8,922 posts)dubyadiprecession
(5,725 posts)They should be able to listen to Trump while holding their favorite semi automatic weapon.Trump can also hold a rifle in one hand like Saddam Hussein and fire it into the air from the stage.
Who really wants to stop them from having fun at their meeting???