They’ve Got Some ‘Splainin’ To Do
Welcome to the NRA convention. Leave your guns at the door.
Would I lie? At the North Carolina convention center in Charlotte, you cannot carry guns. Oh, you got your Sarah Palin, your Glen Beck, your Ollie North, but not your little friend.
North Carolina State law prohibits the carrying of firearms in the Charlotte Convention Center, and the Time Warner Cable Arena. In addition, the Rules and Regulations of the Charlotte Convention Center prohibit the carrying of firearms in the Center. Pursuant to Time Warner Cable Arena policy, all individuals entering the Arena will be subject to a magnetometer security check.
So, they will have to suffer the indignity of walking around completely unarmed and if Glen Beck goes nuts (which ain’t a long walk) and starts shooting up the place, who will protect them?
Why would the NRA, filled to the brim with men who ain’t men unless they are showing off their guns, have a convention in a joint where you can’t have guns? Are they scared of each other? Good Lord, in North Carolina you can carry a gun into a bar, church or a nursing home. Hell, they could have had their convention in one of those mega churches and shot up some chandeliers.
Thanks to Mike for the heads up.
Well – gollee! That’s downright Unamurrican! What does a patriot have to do to protect his constitutional rights … shoot somebody?!
1Paranoid schizzos wandering around the convention center wondering when some certified whacko NRA member kicks down the door and hoses them all with their own petards. Priceless. Ted,Wayne,Glen,Snowdrift Snookie,etc-enjoy the paranoia and fear that you visit upon the rest of ‘merica.
2The NRA is more interested in supporting racist and elitist politics than freedom of weapons.
3After all isn’t social superiority what they are all about? There’s no egalitarian in repression.
Apparently, you can take a gun into the Missouri Capitol building and leave it, loaded, in a restroom with no consequences.
4Maybe if they had done a background check on the place…
5What if a bad guy comes in with a gun? All those good guys won’t have their guns.
This makes no sense. You can’t carry your gun into the NRA convention, but school teachers are supposed to carry them in schools???
6Hmmmm! Navy Yard. After what happened recently in D.C. its a crap shoot (scuse the term) as to the possibility of a conventioneer showing up psychotic and opening fire. The return fire would turn everyone else into collateral damage. Now, in an unarmed pinch, hand to hand combat could make a comeback. The guys could go bare knuckles whereas I would advise the ladies present to carry a billiard ball inside a knee high stocking in their handbags.
Or the other scenario might be, someone somewhere in Gunland America suddenly grew up at least for a few minutes and decided that such weapons simply did not go with the decor of the convention venue. Whatever . . . they will be able to get over that “naked” feeling.
7So the NRA convention will take place in a “Gun Free Zone” ??
8Does Wayne La Pierre understand what Irony is??
Some not-so-quick-on-the-draw
9NRA official committed a colossal goof. These people go to show off their hardware, buy/sell/trade firepower and wave the things around when booing the President. The gun manufacturers show up en masse to pitch their products. What fun are they gonna have now?
The NRA executives are corrupt and are liars, but they are not stupid. They rightfully fear their own membership far more than the Federal Government or Terrorists. The choice of a firearms free venue was deliberate.
10So….They really are afraid one of those idiots…. might be shot.????….. if they let in people with guns.
This is another one of those…. if it were not so pathetic…
11it would be hysterical.
Origuy-if Eureka means I have found it,what do you say when you have misplaced it to begin with? That was rilly funny,thanks for the chuckles.
12Nobody banned high heel shoes. They can be purty dangerous.
13If you can get shot in a rifle range…..
14JJ, the NRA annual meeting in Charlotte was 2010. This year’s meeting was in Houston, remember? Next year’s will be in Indianapolis. Now that we’ve cleared that up… I’d really like to know if those other venues are also gun-free zones even for NRA meetings. Anyone from Indianapolis know?
15Some of those good ol’ boys probably figure they might as well be naked as unarmed. (Now there’s a group portrait I really don’t want to see.)
16Sudden thought: If Charleton Heston were alive today and standing on the NRA convention podium waving his musket, would be be arrested?
17@UmptyDump….nah, neither would be functional.
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