Turning The Ballot Box Against Republicans

The irony. LOL

If he hasn't said this stuff, he certainly wishes he had.

Liberals Brilliantly Troll The GOP With A Petition To Make Their Convention An ‘Open Carry Event’
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2016/03/25/liberals-brilliantly-troll-the-gop-with-a-petition-to-make-their-convention-an-open-carry-event/

I get the joke. But, we might be playing with fire if we end up with a slew of armed pro-trumpers clashing with a bunch of anti-trump protesters outside the convention.

So it was a joke? Bummer.

A voice of sanity has maybe squashed this babble about arming the conventioneers...

The Secret Service, at least, has not been persuaded by the logic of a petition asking that guns be allowed into the Republican National Convention in July.

The agency told ABC’s Cleveland affiliate in a statement:

Title 18 United States Code Sections 3056 and 1752 provides the Secret Service authority to preclude firearms from entering sites visited by our protectees, including those located in open-carry states. Only authorized law enforcement personnel working in conjunction with the Secret Service for a particular event may carry a firearm inside of the protected site. The Secret Service works closely with our local law enforcement partners in each state to ensure a safe environment for our protectees and the public. Individuals determined to be carrying firearms will not be allowed past a predetermined outer perimeter checkpoint, regardless of whether they possess a ticket to the event.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/republican-convention-guns-petition_us_56f70018e4b014d3fe234d28

The damned secret service isent any fun at all!!!

Secret Service-yet another example of government overreach. I'm looking for a bird sanctuary to take over in protest.

I don't want guns everywhere. But if these mooks want unregistered weapons both open carry and permit-less conceal carry, they deserve what they get.

Yeah, but the SS didn't stop automatic weapons carriers in the parking lots of venues where President Obama spoke at in his re-election campaign, not even in Arizona just a year or so after Gabby Giffords was shot.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/08/17/obama.protest.rifle/index.html?_s=PM:POLITICS
Man carries assault rifle to Obama protest -- and it's legal

Story Highlights
Video shows man with an assault rifle slung over his shoulder at Phoenix protest
Arizona law has nothing in the books regulating assault rifles
Secret Service: Man considered no threat to president, who was nearby
Man carrying rifle: "I think that people need to get out and do it more"

updated 1:15 a.m. EDT, Tue August 18, 2009


PHOENIX, Arizona (CNN) -- A man toting an assault rifle was among a dozen protesters carrying weapons while demonstrating outside President Obama's speech to veterans on Monday, but no laws were broken. It was the second instance in recent days in which weapons have been seen near presidential events.
A man is shown legally carrying a rifle at a protest against President Obama on Monday in Phoenix, Arizona.

A man is shown legally carrying a rifle at a protest against President Obama on Monday in Phoenix, Arizona.

Video from the protest in Phoenix, Arizona, shows the man standing with other protesters, with the rifle slung over his right shoulder.

Phoenix police said authorities monitored about a dozen people carrying weapons while peacefully demonstrating.

"It was a group interested in exercising the right to bear arms," police spokesman Sgt. Andy Hill said.

Arizona law has nothing in the books regulating assault rifles, and only requires permits for carrying concealed weapons. So despite the man's proximity to the president, there were no charges or arrests to be made. Hill said officers explained the law to some people who were upset about the presence of weapons at the protest. Video Watch the rifle being legally carried at rally »

"I come from another state where 'open carry' is legal, but no one does it, so the police don't really know about it and they harass people, arrest people falsely," the man, who wasn't identified, said in an interview aired by CNN affiliate KNVX. "I think that people need to get out and do it more so that they get kind of conditioned to it."

Gun-toting protesters have demonstrated around the president before. Last week, a man protesting outside Obama's town hall meeting in New Hampshire had a gun strapped to his thigh. That state also doesn't require a license for open carry.

U.S. Secret Service spokesman Ed Donovan acknowledged the incidents in New Hampshire and Arizona, but said he was not aware of any other recent events where protesters attended with open weapons. He said there was no indication that anyone had organized the incidents.

Asked whether the individuals carrying weapons jeopardized the safety of the president, Donovan said, "Of course not."

The individuals would never have gotten in close proximity to the president, regardless of any state laws on openly carrying weapons, he said. A venue is considered a federal site when the Secret Service is protecting the president and weapons are not allowed on a federal site, he added.
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In both instances, the men carrying weapons were outside the venues where Obama was speaking.

"We pay attention to this obviously ... to someone with a firearm when they open carry even when they are within state law," Donovan said. "We work with our law enforcement counterparts to make sure laws and regulations in their states are enforced." E-mail to a friend E-mail to a friend

Open-carry gun protesters greet President Obama in Texas
By Mike DeBonis March 11

Texans are allowed to carry a holstered pistol under an "open carry" law passed in 2015 by the Republican-dominated legislature. (CBS News)

AUSTIN — When President Obama lands here Friday to give a talk at this year's South by Southwest Interactive festival, he will enter the land of oak-smoked brisket, live music, "thinkfluencers" — and openly brandished firearms.

For the third consecutive year, activists are using the yearly music and culture festival to bring attention to their defense of gun rights by openly carrying guns in public, as is legal in Texas. This year, however, there are a couple of twists: One, the open carry of handguns — as opposed to rifles and shotguns — is legal for the first time. Second, the most powerful and well-guarded man in the world will be in town.

C.J. Grisham of Open Carry Texas, who is leading a previously planned protest of as many as 20 activists in downtown Austin on Friday, said Obama's visit will have no effect on his group's plans.

"The president is an American, just like every one of us is an American," Grisham said. "He's nothing special. Granted, he is the president, but him being there for us doesn't change anything. We're no threat to the president, and the president better not be a threat to us."

Grisham, who said he plans to carry a rifle, said he does not expect any sort of confrontation related to the presidential visit: "The point is to engage with the public, explain to them that you know it's not the guns people need to be afraid of, it's the person, and to show the lighter side and the friendlier side of gun owners."

But the presence of openly brandished firearms in the vicinity of a presidential visit has some on edge — a feeling encouraged by a social media posting earlier this week.

After Grisham noted on his Facebook page earlier this week that Obama's visit would coincide with his open-carry demonstration, a commenter said: "If you get a clear shot, please fire for effect!"

Other pro-gun commenters quickly pointed out that even suggesting a presidential potshot was unwise, and Robert Hoback, a spokesman for the Secret Service, said Thursday that the agency "is aware of this posting and is conducting the appropriate follow-up."

Grisham said he had not heard from either local or federal law enforcement about concerns related to Obama's visit, and he insisted that the protesters intended to fully exercise their legal rights. "We're going to go, and we're going to do our event the way we normally do our event," he said. "We're there peacefully and lawfully to exercise our rights and hand out educational materials and nothing more. That's it. We're not going to be dictated to by any government entity in public to say we can or can't exercise our rights just because some human being decided he wants to take a left down a street we just happen to be on."

<snip> in deference to snood.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/03/11/open-carry-gun-protesters-will-greet-obama-in-texas/

I'm sure Obama will have enough security with guns to outdo any gun slinger in Texas.

I would hope, so. But if we're going to subject the President of the United States of America to armed idiots hulking around in the parking lot, the mooks who set the gun nuts loose need to be exposed to some gun nuttery as well.

You mean like Kennedy had?

I wonder how much extra he pays in taxes to make up for this? I have a problem with rich people who talk about how bad the system is while continuing to take full advantage of it. Put your money where your mouth is and pay more in taxes then.