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Water Guns Banned, Handguns Allowed at GOP Convention
In the politically-charged and likely protest-filled streets of Tampa, Fla., during the Republican National Convention in August, water guns will be strictly prohibited. Concealed handguns, on the other hand, will be perfectly legal.
Florida Gov. Rick Scott said this week that banning handguns from downtown Tampa during the convention, as the city's Mayor Bob Buckhorn requested, "would surely violate the Second Amendment."
"It is unclear how disarming law-abiding citizens would better protect them from the dangers and threats posed by those who would flout the law," Scott said in a letter to Buckhorn Tuesday, emphasizing the words "law-abiding." "It is at just such times that the constitutional right of self defense is most precious and must be protected from government overreach."
Buckhorn said today that he was "disappointed" by Scott's decision, but that the city will "plan and train accordingly."
Tampa officials are expecting thousands of protesters to descend on the Florida metropolis for the GOP convention. While no handguns will be allowed inside the convention, which is being protected by the Secret Service, concealed carry license-holders will be able to carry their weapons in the streets surrounding the convention.
They will not, however, be able to have "super soaker" water guns, sticks, poles, portable shields or glass bottles.
Buckhorn said last month that the state law, which prohibits the city from temporarily banning handguns, makes the city "look silly" because officials can prohibit water guns but not real ones, The Associated Press reported.
"There is no reason to have a concealed firearm in downtown Tampa that week," Buckhorn said in Wednesday's statement. "And, to be clear, I am far less concerned with those who have concealed weapons permits than the ones who may somehow acquire a weapon and use it to create mayhem."
James Davis, a spokesman for the Republican National Convention, said party officials are not worried that concealed handguns will create security problems.
"We think we are going to have a safe and successful convention," Davis said. "The local police and Secret Service will make sure of that."
The city plans to have 4,000 law enforcement personnel in the downtown area during the party convention, a move Buckhorn said would create "safe environment" where "a firearm should not be necessary for self-defense."
The Republican National Convention will be held at the Tampa Bay Times Arena, Aug. 27-30.
Re: Water Guns Banned, Handguns Allowed at GOP Convention
Anything you can achieve through hard work, you could also just buy.
<a href="http://www.thenest.com/?utm_source=ticker&utm_medium=HTML&utm_campaign=tickers" title="Home DWonder if I can get my dad to leave Tampa for the convention. Although he is a bit to the right of Gingrich, so he'll probably love it.
What a sh!tshow.
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Dude, it is seriously being suggested left and right for businesses to close and / or people to stay home that week. I wish I could get H to stay home but he says he's far enough from downtown to be out of the "hoopla." His office is one block from where the downtown officially starts - ONE BLOCK!
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Even better, glitter filled balloons. Make some pols colorful.
wait? I agree with the spokesman for the RNC?
first time for everything.
Right to bear arms =/= right to bear armor, I guess. You'll have to bring a gun and shoot it out in the American way, no wimping out defensive strategy for you.
While i will never for a hot second understand the American obsession with guns (I don't care its the 2nd amendment or whatever it is, doesn't make it right), I'm not sure why they would even have to announce you can't have water guns.
Who would bring a water gun to a convention?
You never know!
Why is your H not all over the suggested days off?! Any chance you can work on his company? You know, suggest something to HR or his boss casually? Hopefully the upcoming hype will sway them, but if not what a great excuse to work from home.
Also, love that you started with "dude."
Canadians don't own guns as well?
Someone who wants to have fun, that's who!
H works for school board - they're looking into it. H is workaholic. Summer apparently is H's busy season. Apparently one simply cannot work from home due to security protocol. Really? School board is stupid.
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yeah, no.
H works for a defense contractor and has computer access to defense-contractor-y stuff (like, people he works with have security clearances and all) and he gets to work from home all.the.time.
what you need is good work-from-home protocols, not "nobody can work from home" protocols.
I am the 99%.
Per capita, we own about 1/4 of the guns Americans do - and a further breakdown by type shows the majority of ours are hunting rifles.
Our firearm homicide rate is 0.54 per 100,000; and in the US its 2.97 per 100,000.
[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_violence" target="_blank" title="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_of_guns_per_capita_by_country[url]
Our firearm homicide rate is 0.54 per 100,000; and in the US its 2.97 per 100,000.
[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_violence">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_of_guns_per_capita_by_country[url]
Our firearm homicide rate is 0.54 per 100,000; and in the US its 2.97 per 100,000.
[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_violence
Just about everyone, even those who are pro-gun ownership in the US acknowledge that there is a serious issue with gun violence and related crimes in the US.