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MicaelS

(8,747 posts)
3. No irony.
Thu Apr 27, 2017, 10:29 PM
Apr 2017

USSS won't allow any loaded firearms near POTUS except their own. I remember when a group of Marines had to remove the firing pins from their weapons during a POTUS visit.

LonePirate

(13,431 posts)
4. There had better be a protest across the street by gundamentalists enraged by the ban.
Thu Apr 27, 2017, 10:31 PM
Apr 2017

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They wouldn't want to give the appearance of being the complete and utter hypocrites that they are.

 

Hoyt

(54,770 posts)
6. My understanding is that the armed white wing Klansmen can remain outside the area where the Prez
Fri Apr 28, 2017, 06:18 AM
Apr 2017

will be speaking.

Apparently, a bunch of the armed Klansmen would rather not leave their gunz in their hotel room, than see Trump speak.

 

Hoyt

(54,770 posts)
5. Trump could have issued an executive order allowing gunz, but he knows how dangerous Ted Nugent --
Fri Apr 28, 2017, 06:15 AM
Apr 2017

an NRA Board member -- and the general membership are.

80,000 ignorant white wing racist gun humpers have descended on Atlanta for a Klan meeting.

tblue37

(65,488 posts)
9. Remember all the open carry jerks at Obama rallies, some with signs about "watering
Sun Apr 30, 2017, 01:40 PM
Apr 2017

the tree of liberty" with blood?

keithbvadu2

(36,917 posts)
10. NRA members are not trustworthy to carry weapons.
Sun Apr 30, 2017, 07:01 PM
Apr 2017

NRA members are not trustworthy to carry weapons.

And the NRA goes along with it.

jmowreader

(50,562 posts)
14. It's understandable why they did it
Mon May 1, 2017, 12:31 PM
May 2017

Come on: as God-awful as he is, he's still president.

On the other hand, the aftermath of a room full of half-shitfaced Yahoos with loaded guns with a president so bad he can't even get his Congress to repeal a bill they all hate could have been entertaining...

 

EffieBlack

(14,249 posts)
15. Of course they should ban guns in locations where the president is. The question is why these same
Mon May 1, 2017, 12:36 PM
May 2017

people think it's fine - and in fact insist that - loaded weapons be permitted in schools, churches, hospitals, bars, etc.

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