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Saturday, March 26th, 2016

More than 5,000 support petition to allow guns at Republican National Convention in Cleveland

Author:     Doug Livingston
Source:     Akron Beacon Journal
Publication Date:     March 25, 2016 - 03:19 PM
 Link: More than 5,000 support petition to allow guns at Republican National Convention in Cleveland
Stephan:   This has become an election run by the asylum inmates. When you go down the yellow brick road of Open Carry here's what happens when you get to Oz. A Republican convention of  racist, angry armed White men caught up in the heated emotions of politics. What could possibly go wrong? I am quite sure it won't happen, the Secret Service Director is a person with an IQ in triple digits; the service will not permit it. That isn't the important point though. It is that thousands of Republicans think this  is a great idea. Perhaps they should let them do it. Maybe that is what it would take to awaken America to the gun death epidemic that takes 33,000 people a year; and makes it more likely you will be shot by a toddler than a terrorist.
Cleveland skyline taken from Edgewater Park in Cleveland. Credit: AP/Mark Duncan

Cleveland skyline taken from Edgewater Park in Cleveland.
Credit: AP/Mark Duncan

Support has more than quadrupled overnight for a petition to allow firearms at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland.

The petition, filed by “Americans for Responsible Open Carry,” was filed Monday on Change.org, an online forum. By Wednesday, 630 supporters had signed the request to carry firearms in and around Quicken Loans Arena, which will host the 2016 Republican National Convention from July 18-21.

With a goal of 5,000 signatures, the petition topped 5,300 by 6 p.m. Thursday.

The Ohio Republican Party, which is sending one of 50 state delegations to Cleveland this summer to nominate the party’s next presidential candidate, said it was not aware of the petition.

Nor was the host committee overseeing the convention, although it noted that the Secret Service, in conjunction with Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, state and federal authorities, is handling security for the event.

“They are coordinating and will be continuously refining security plans leading up to the national convention,” said Alee Lockman, a spokesperson […]

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