Indianapolis Colts respond to controversial gun bill

[jpak]

http://www.fox59.com/news/wxin-gun-bill-colts-respond-to-controversial-gun-bill-20110217,0,2842143.story

The Indianapolis Colts responded to a controversial gun bill Thursday.

Lawmakers are pushing for a bill that will allow people to carry a gun almost anywhere in Indiana. That means licensed gun owners would be able to bring their firearms into libraries, parks, and sports arenas, including Lucas Oil Stadium.

A statement from the Colts said the bill "would prevent the Colts' landlord, the Capital Improvement Board, from enforcing current restrictions against firearms being brought into facilities it manages, including Lucas Oil Stadium.

“While the Colts expressly forbid ticketholders from bringing firearms to games, the club must rely upon the CIB, which employs the security at Lucas Oil Stadium, to enforce that restriction."

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[mediator]

1. Well, I sure do appreciate people who engage in violence for money telling the rest of us

what rights we might be permitted to retain under their omniscient tutelage. Do you work for the Brady bunch?

[jpak]

2. A personal foul on the field is a 15 yard penalty - a Glock with a 30 round mag in the stands

is a weapon of mass murder

yup

[mediator]

3. Yeah, I keep forgetting all those horrific examples of mass murder in stadiums

using 30 round Glocks. The liberal media always buries those stories in favor of the ones about crazed soccer fans
crushing 200 people to death using their 27.6 caliber bodies after a game that didn't go their way. Funny, that.

[friendly_iconoclast]

4. It's true- the #1 cause of mass death in stadiums is the bodies of spectators

Fire and collapse are second and third, AFAIK. So the solution is obvious:

Allow large-capacity magazines in, and keep the fans out.

[AzNick]

5. Well, wasn't this a movie?

I sort of remember some stupid movie with a dude shooting everybody on the field and there was eventually a pile of bodies: players, fans, officials, referees, etc...

I remember vividly the shooter eating a Snicker or Mars bar as a treat before his shooting began :)

[friendly_iconoclast]

"Two Minute Warning"- what a cheesefest. And no large magazines were involved

It was a deer-sniping rifle- you know, the sort of gun the "good" gun owners have...

[AzNick]

11. Starring Charlton Heston :)

Funny that a movie which could be interpreted as anti-gun had a gun advocate in the main part.

[rl6214]

9. Oh come on, get fucking real

where do you make this shit up, it's just unbelievable.

[Kolesar]

12. Lame attempt at sarcasm, Mediator...eom

[AzNick]

6. One should be allowed to forbid guns on his property

Simple as that. Any business can post a "no shirt no service" sign and refuse business to anyone in America, and by extension they should be allowed to refuse service to anyone carrying a handgun.

Simple private property or business law.

[friendly_iconoclast]

7. It's not the Colts property, the city of Indianapolis owns the stadium

So it is, legally, a public building.

[AzNick]

10. I see. In this case, they're SOL.

If they were the Pats, now, it would be different.

[X_Digger]

8. deleted. n/t

[Tejas]

13. note to self: rent North Dallas 40 this weekend.

Gonna watch it just to see Mac Davis utter that line in the locker room.
"I can see it now, all lit up in neon lights; "EAT JOE BOB'S HAMBURGERS...OR I'LL KILL YA!".

[Callisto32]

14. Is the stadium privately owned, or was it subsidized by public funds?

If privately owned, the owner(s) and operator(s) should be able to make whatever rules they wish.

If it is a publicly subsidized stadium....:nopity:

[Euromutt]

15. Is there such a thing as a stadium...

...that isn't publicly subsidized one way or another?

[Callisto32]

16. Not of which I am aware.

I consider sports stadia to be one of the ultimate examples of public waste. If they are so damn profitable, and will bring so much money in, why does a city always have to subsidize it?