Remember, guns will be allowed right outside the (R) convention.

[Motown_Johnny]

~5 weeks away

I'm betting it will still be part of the conversation.


http://www.tampabay.com/blogs/the-buzz-florida-politics/content/scott-turns-down-tampas-request-ban-guns-outside-republican-national-convention

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Scott turns down Tampa's request to ban guns outside Republican National Convention


Gov. Rick Scott is saying no to Tampa’s request to ban carrying concealed weapons outside the Republican National Convention, according to a letter from Scott to Mayor Bob Buckhorn. (Read the letter here.)

Buckhorn wrote to Scott Tuesday requesting that the governor issue an executive order prohibiting the transportation of firearms in downtown Tampa during the convention.

In a response dated the same day, Scott suggests that Tampa is overreaching in its request. Already, he says, the Secret Service will ban firearms inside the Tampa Bay Times Forum itself as well as in a security perimeter immediately around the convention campus.

“You are now requesting that citizens be disarmed in all of downtown Tampa, including in areas across the river, and distant, from the convention center and Secret Service safe zone,” Scott wrote.

[HopeHoops]

1. Fuck that! They'll be allowed INSIDE the convention!!!

[Buns_of_Fire]

5. I think inside the hall will fall under Secret Service jurisdiction.

[ProgressiveProfessor]

11. There will be predefined security zones under Federal control

They will be larger than the buildings themselves, but not a contiguoous region containing all of the facilities.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

2. A mob of armed, drunken, excited, paranoid, Republicans. What could possibly go wrong?

[freshwest]

7. Ron Paul telling the Paulistas to vote for Romney? Brain matter all over the place.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

9. Considering the quantity of brain matter at a Repub convention..clean up should require a saucer.

[mysuzuki2]

3. what about squirt guns?

[freshwest]

6. I think those were forbidden, right? We don't want LEOs accidentally taking out badly armed civvies.

[freshwest]

4. Thought the GOP wanted guns inside the convention. That pesky Secret Service strikes again.

Apply only as needed:

[HiPointDem]

8. i don't get it -- they're allowed inside but not outside?

[Motown_Johnny]

10. No, outside but not inside.

[HiPointDem]

13. people keep saying they're allowed on the convention floor.

[Travis_0004]

12. This doesn't bother me one bit

A few law abiding citizens might have a gun, but nobody will ever know.

Do you think if a person wanted to shoot the place up, he would see a sign that says "no guns", and the get pissed off and go home?