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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHilarious: Open Carry group organizing delegates to carry assault rifles at Texas GOP convention
A controversial Texas gun group has called on activists make the Texas Republican Party convention the next front in their battle for the right to openly carry assault-style rifles as many places as possible. All delegates, I urge you to open-carry the whole time, Open Carry Tarrant County coordinator Kory Watkins wrote. I will be a delegate with my AK 47. Thomas Jefferson would be proud.
City officials, however, pointed out that guns would not be welcome in the Fort Worth Convention Center as long as alcohol was being served.
http://freakoutnation.com/2014/06/01/hilarious-open-carry-group-organizing-delegates-to-carry-assault-rifles-at-texas-gop-convention/
Le Taz Hot
(22,271 posts)The GOP has no problem taking bri . . ., er, donations from the NRA but there's no way in hell they're going to let delegates in who are packing.
packman
(16,296 posts)PLEASE, PLEASE make this so. Don't you just love it - they got to make a choice between gun-carrying and alcohol
central scrutinizer
(11,648 posts)by not serving alcohol. The good ol' boys will bring their own in hip flasks.
A Simple Game
(9,214 posts)Then again there is that pesky twenty first amendment. Does twenty one beat two?
Dang it, why can't we just have both like we do at home?
malaise
(269,004 posts)then I want someone to shout 'Fire'!
jwirr
(39,215 posts)Initech
(100,076 posts)riqster
(13,986 posts)Baitball Blogger
(46,715 posts)Sounds reasonable to me.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)world wide wally
(21,743 posts)I guess we'll find out.
Scuba
(53,475 posts)AlinPA
(15,071 posts)might change their tune if there is a shooting. <clip>Republican Party of Texas Chairman Steve Munisteri noted that 1995 law permitted concealed handguns, even if the legislature had not yet legalized openly carrying rifles in establishments that sell alcohol.
We expect to have people there carrying weapons, Munisteri explained. Its a Republican crowd and thats a crowd thats used to people packing.
If the city and the convention center leave it up to us, we will allow open carry and, of course, anyone with a concealed-carry license.<end clip>
Paladin
(28,261 posts)The Repubs are OK with the open carriers recently harassing an ex-Marine in downtown Ft. Worth, because freedom. Let's see how like that convention hall, populated by knuckle-draggers with assault rifles. Think Frank Sinatra in the finale of the original "The Manchurian Candidate" movie.......
Downwinder
(12,869 posts)GreatCaesarsGhost
(8,584 posts)louis-t
(23,295 posts)A while ago, I suggested that any repug would have to have a McConnell moment where he/she raises a weapon in the air at a convention. If they refuse, they wouldn't stand a chance of being nominated or elected.
Wolf Frankula
(3,601 posts)unzipped with their dicks hanging out, nobody would notice.
Wolf
Duppers
(28,120 posts)wryter2000
(46,047 posts)Allow me to support their putative second amendment rights.
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)why not the convention. Also I vote that all types of guns be allowed at the NRA headquarters, offices, and the American congress!
Hekate
(90,690 posts)At this point, I'm in such a mood that I hope it does go wrong, one way or the other.
The most sane option is for the GOP to tell the gun-nuts NO, which would alienate Tea Partiers, Cliven Bundy-ites, and a lot of others. Good -- isolate the fringe groups back to the fringe, why don't you.
The more pandering far stupider option is to let the pistol-packin' mamas and AK47 packin' yahoos swan around with their phallic symbols hanging out. In which case, I hope someone lets fly.
Pass the butter.
yuiyoshida
(41,831 posts)POP! BANG! BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG RATTTA TATTA TAT BANG BLAM BLAM BLAM!!!
To be followed by screams and wails...crying sobbing. IF anyone is left.
The Wizard
(12,545 posts)Iliyah
(25,111 posts)shooting would occur and a lot of dead and injured.
Downwinder
(12,869 posts)surrealAmerican
(11,361 posts)... they will be a bunch of "fire crackers", and with alcohol being served, "lit fire crackers" are pretty much guaranteed.
joeybee12
(56,177 posts)And you rid Texas of all the Repuke delegates...I really can see this happening.
spanone
(135,838 posts)LongTomH
(8,636 posts)......someone getting shot at a Repub convention! Looks like we're getting closer.
In any case, I don't want to be within a couple of miles of the convention center!
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)Hoyt
(54,770 posts)NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)and a long fuse. I'm going to want to be long gone when those go off.
The Blue Flower
(5,442 posts)Could get interesting.
Rex
(65,616 posts)have some power in this country.
maxrandb
(15,330 posts)that recently passed into law a "carry everywhere" gun bill, WITH THE ONE EXCEPTION BEING THE STATE CAPITAL?
Shrike47
(6,913 posts)It's sorta like watching a NASCAR race. You hope nothing bad will happen, but still...
TeamPooka
(24,227 posts)Cali_Democrat
(30,439 posts)yuiyoshida
(41,831 posts)Thomas Jefferson carried a HAND PHASER SET ON STUN.
Aerows
(39,961 posts)is they are a bunch of jackwagons.
ALBliberal
(2,342 posts)These posts from TX I am embarrassed for my mom's maiden name Tarrant... how is it possible?
blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)NYtoBush-Drop Dead
(490 posts)kill them selves off... That would be nice.
Michigander_Life
(549 posts)Destroy all guns in America. ALL, save for those that are locked up in the military armory. It's time. It's way past time.
gopiscrap
(23,761 posts)1Greensix
(111 posts)The attitude in Texas is "An unloaded gun can't be used to defend anyone." So a unloaded gun is just a club.
I think anyone who carries an Unloaded AK-47 to the Republican convention is JUST A PUSSY! They're Un-Texan!!!
ALL Texas should carry loaded AK-47's all the time, including while in a bar drinking, at weddings and Christmas pageants, at the voting booths, in hospitals, to grade school Open Houses, to high school graduations, to Cowboy games and in mental institutions. That way, at a moments notice, they can All kill each other's children and parents and in the long run, make America a better place.
If everyone in the convention is openly carrying, what would be the point of metal detectors, and body guards?
Republicans love gun rights, until one of their own family members is killed by an idiot with one.