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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIf more guns keep us safer
then maybe they should pass out firearms to the audience at POTUS appearances. Think the NRA would lobby for that?
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If more guns keep us safer (Original Post)
misanthrope
Feb 2018
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SoCalMusicLover
(3,194 posts)1. The President Is Important Though
Us peasants are not.
misanthrope
(7,417 posts)2. All the more reason to keep him safest of all
If all those "good guys" there to see him speak had firearms, then wouldn't he be as safe as possible?
atreides1
(16,079 posts)3. No he's not
That's why there is a line of succession...if the POTUS gets whacked....then the job goes to the Vice President!!!
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)4. And at the Supreme Court building.
And in Congress.
But strangely enough, guns are not allowed there.
spanone
(135,836 posts)5. even the nra doesn't allow guns in their conventions....what do they know?????
misanthrope
(7,417 posts)6. Don't they want to be safe?
More guns equal more safety, right? Isn't that their mantra?
sinkingfeeling
(51,457 posts)7. If more guns keep us safer, we'd be the safest country on earth.
However, we know that's a pile of s**t. Some countries advise their citizens to avoid the dangerous USA.