D.C. delegate calls for ban on guns near Obama

http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/d.c.-delegate-calls-for-ban-on-guns-near-obama-2009-08-19.html


Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.) called on the Homeland Security Department and the U.S. Secret Service on Wednesday to provide tighter restrictions on citizens carrying weapons, openly or concealed, while in the vicinity of President Barack Obama.

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“It is clear that if the Secret Service can temporarily clear all aircraft from air space when the president is in the vicinity, the agency has the authority to clear guns on the ground that are even closer to the President,” Norton said.

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“This doesn’t change what already exists for Secret Service,” said Secret Service spokesman Malcolm Wiley of Norton’s request.

“Whenever the Secret Service travels somewhere in the country, we are able to determine what the security parameters will be for any particular site and anything within those parameters fall under federal law as far as being able to control what happens there.”

“So even if the state law says that you can have a gun as long as it’s not concealed, it doesn’t mean that you can bring a gun into a protected site.”

Norton has been battling with gun rights supporters for years because of the District’s former ban on handguns, which was struck down by the Supreme Court last year. More recently, a bill to grant the District a representational vote in Congress has stalled in the House because of an amendment that would make it easier to own a gun in D.C.
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Anyone with a gun is outside the SS sterile zone. No matter how far out you make the zone (putting more work on the Secret Service and local cops), the guys with guns will gather on the other side of the line and the news media will breathlessly report on it.

It's the guy with a rife and scope that is the most dangerous. We should also remember that a total nut case can have a gun permit and be totally legal in most states.

Site prep includes securing all vantage points where a scope and a rifle would be effective.

Been that way since '63. I'll assume you know why.

i love their banter!

immediately.

- as no weapons are in the vicinity of the president. The area beyond Secret Service security is protected and no weapons make it through security.

I give this OP an unrec.