…but guns are OK.
Wha?
The Official Event Zone Permit Regulations for the Republican convention in Cleveland explicitly prohibit
carrying tennis balls and cans of tuna fish (and lots of other stuff) into the
1.7-square-mile event zone.
Guns? Different story.
Illegal firearms are prohibited. Check.
Legal guns can be carried at will except in the actual convention arena controlled by the Secret Service. So,
delegates and protestors will be allowed to pack heat in the areas where public
confrontations are likely to occur.
An official of the Cleveland police
union is publicly asking Gov. John Kasich to do an executive order to suspend
Ohio’s “open carry” law in Cuyahoga County (including Cleveland) for the duration of the convention.
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| 1968 Democratic Convention violence in Chicago |
It’s the least thing Kasich should do.
Right now, we need to do everything to
keep the Republican Convention from being a “gunfight at the O. K. corral” kind
of thing. It’ll be bad enough without violence.
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