There’s an actual petition out there on change.org that is petitioning for open carry at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland.
www.change.org/...
Seriously. This is actually a thing.
I mean, sure. Why not? What could possibly go wrong? It’s the natural and obvious culmination of a party that wants free and unfettered access to guns in all locations at all times and with no exceptions. (Alternatively, perhaps it’s a twisted, sadistic, but admittedly clever ruse by someone who wants to watch the Republicans twist themselves into a pretzel over Second Amendment rights, but I digress.)
The petition calls for:
• Quicken Loans Arena to suspend its open-carry ban during the convention. (The arena actually cites Ohio law on concealed carry in prohibiting firearms.)
• The National Rifle Association to make “an immediate condemnation of the egregious affront to the Second Amendment,” referring to Ohio law that allows for guns in many but not all public places. (The NRA declined to comment for this story.)
• Ohio Gov. John Kasich to exercise his executive authority to override the “gun-free zone” loophole in state law.
• Chairman Reince Priebus and the Republican National Committee to explain how “a venue so unfriendly to Second Amendment rights was chosen for the Republican Convention” and create a backup plan to move the convention (two years in the making) to another city should demands not be met.
• The three remaining Republican candidates for president to continue their pledge to protect the Second Amendment by pressuring the RNC and Quicken Loans Arena.
www.ohio.com/…
I’m not encouraging you to sign it. I thought about signing it, because of reaping what they sow and all that, but… then I remembered that there will surely be normal Clevelanders working at the convention, and they don’t deserve to be in the line-of-fire of a massacre at the Quicken Loans corral.
Still. I thought you should know that it exists.
Guess this adds a new little wrinkle to the Stop Trump movement.
