Remember that, yes, guns are allowed within the RNC “event zone.” (BB guns, paintball guns and water guns, though? Nope.) James Klein, a pro-Trump delegate from the Harrisburg area, tells MJ that they won’t be bringing their guns into the convention hall itself.
“But,” he says, “there’s the hotels. There’s going to be dinners.”
Klein, who self-identifies as “an academic and a theorist,” says that if he were “an ISIS guy,” he’d be particularly interested in attacking the RNC. That sounds like projection to us, but, hey, we’re not the academics here.
“We’re talking about ISIS,” Klein tells MJ. “We’re talking about people who have shown a propensity for violence.”
Here’s more:
“There are a whole bunch of things happening: You go to various events, receptions, whatever, outside the convention hall,” says Ash Khare, a delegate from the northwest corner of the state who applied for a concealed carry permit in preparation for Cleveland. “And you walk on the streets and, you know, people know that you are a delegate, and who knows what the crazy people are going to do? So you’ve got to be vigilant about what’s going on and prepare yourself.”Now, of course, this crowd surely isn’t the only one that’s planning on toting their guns around the RNC later this month. They just happened to get picked up by Mother Jones.
With that in mind, indeed, remain vigilant and don’t make direct eye contact with delegates packing heat. If possible, place some flat tax rate literature on the nearest surface and back away slowly.
This article appears in Jun 29 – Jul 5, 2016.
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Gun free zones mean Free to Kill zones for lunatics and radical Moslems. We should feel safer with trained, licensed permit holders who carry. Gun violence by responsible citizens is extremely rare and wards off the killers to easier targets like the Convention of the Oppressed or nuclear free neighborhoods.
If every delegate to the RNC was carrying, CLE will be much safer than average weekend in gun restricted Chicago.
I do not see how Cleveland is going to get through the RNC without multiple fatalities. The only questions left unresolved are WHICH SIDE WILL THEY BE ON and HOW MANY WILL THERE BE.
Twenty years of Cleveland progress…gone in a few days. Nobody will ever remember Chicago ’68 again after Cleveland ’16. They’ll recall Kent State, though.
Chuckles the Clown
Darwin is smiling.
Remember reading about the anti-German hysteria of World War I? When people saw the Kaiser’s agents everywhere, and demanded that German not be taught in schools, that symphony orchestras not play any works by German composers? When hot heads demanded that the cities of Berlin, NH and Bismarck ND change their names. That sauerkraut be called “Liberty Cabbage.”
Well, that’s where we are today.
Yeah, especially in places like Avon, where that poor bastard, an Arab who was here as a patient of the Cleveland Clinic, was nearly wasted by a SWAT team. His crime? Using a cell phone and SPEAKING IN ARABIC…his native tongue!
That dumb C-word who called the cops should be horsewhipped. Naked. In public. She almost caused an innocent man’s death because of her xenophobia and paranoia.
And once again, Ohio looks stupid and ignorant before the rest of the world.
Chuckles the Clown