while hanging out on Twitter, I ran across a tweet from @NTARC:
NTARC Man Arrested Before Obama Event Had Loaded Gun - http://tinyurl.com/... #news
NTARC is National Terror Alert Response Center, a Clearing House for "Homeland Security News"
Fernan47 had a short mention of this in an earlier diary
Following the link, I read the short blurb, and then followed the link to the entire article, and read the following:
Richard Terry Young, 62, of 821 Ocean Blvd. in Hampton, was arrested around 9:40 a.m., hours before Obama's arrival, and charged with the misdemeanor crimes of criminal trespass and carrying a loaded pistol without a license.
Young was found inside Portsmouth High School, where Obama later in the day held his town hall-style forum. Young was detained by the Secret Service and subsequently arrested by Portsmouth Lt. Corey MacDonald. Young was carrying a pocket knife, police said. A subsequent search of his vehicle, parked on school property, revealed a loaded hand gun, police said.
http://www.seacoastonline.com/...
True, it's a misdemeanor trespass charge, and the gun was in his car on school property, but he was in the location where the President would later be.
The Secret Service is looking into Federal charges against him - what other reason would he be there so early, if not to find a vantage point
Yet, not a word from the Media. Instead we are treated to a dude with a "Union busting Agenda" on the boob tube, who doesn't know the sad history of guns near Presidents.
Lincoln
McKinley
FDR - attempted
Kennedy.
Ford - attempted
Reagan - attempted
UPDATE: Jackson - attempted -Thank you, KVoimakas, for pointing out my omission.