Ultimate NIMBY: NRA bans firearms at its own convention

[nichomachus]

They want people to be armed everywhere -- including schools -- but won't allow them into their own convention. What a bunch of phonies.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2008/05/17/2008-05-17_with_mccain_on_hand_knives_wont_cut_it_a.html">NRA convention -- check your guns at the door

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - A small but startling sign welcomed the gun lovers who arrived at the National Rifle Association's annual gathering Friday.

"Firearms WILL NOT be allowed in Hall A during the Celebration of American Values Leadership Forum."

Beyond this sign at the Kentucky Exposition Center was a row of 10 metal detectors. They were manned by uniformed Secret Service officers deployed because the scheduled speakers included presumptive Republican nominee John McCain.

They should have told the SS that McCain couldn't speak unless their members could be packin'. How can anyone take these bozos seriously?

[bbinacan]

1. You are joking right?

McCain could be a target of a non NRA member.

[nichomachus]

3. No, it's a true story

They want me to be the target of some whacked out teacher packing heat at the local middle school, but won't let their own members carry firearms into their own convention.

[tabasco]

20. According to the NRA,all the guns would make it a safer place.

They don't really believe that nonsense.

[marmar]

2. Afraid of their own members, perhaps?

n/t

[Deja Q]

9. Afraid of the dicks, you mean?

Or dickless?

:hide:

[squawk7700]

4. Only a tiny percentage of gun owners are NRA members.

...

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

8. However, 100 percent of NRA members are gun owners.

I wouldn't trust an auditorium full of 'em either. :shrug:

[squawk7700]

14. Me either...any more than one full of cops.

:-)

[BlooInBloo]

5. HAHAHA!!!! Lying fucking hypocrites.

[stevedeshazer]

6. Irony lives

Recommended.

[BlooInBloo]

7. Once again - republicans trying to force The Onion out of business.

[muntrv]

10. The NRA says "It's the criminal, stupid." Could they be talking about McCain?

[Ian David]

11. They pulled that idea from their cold, dead asses. n/t

[KG]

12. yep. the gunners got all upset a couple years ago coz the couldn't pack heat

when cheney was speaking at their convetion. too funny.

[Doug.Goodall]

13. Gun Pushers don't want to die, they want other people to die

[MindMatter]

15. Guns don't kill people. Crazy people who go to gun conventions do.

[mcg]

32. LOL

[DinahMoeHum]

16. Psss psss psss psss psss! Psss psss psss psss psss!

Big guns, tiny cocks - that's the NRA for you.

:evilgrin:

[havocmom]

17. So, they found out some members are...

liberals?

That must've made 'em nervous.

[Blue_Tires]

18. cowards n/t

[RamboLiberal]

19. They also had to leave their knives outside as well

Many had been alerted to the no-firearms edict, so few arrived packing.

"I got a gun in the car," said Deborah Phelps of Fredonia, Ky.

The alert, however, said nothing about pocketknives, which seemingly everybody here was carrying. Hundreds of conventiongoers finally reached the detectors only to be told they could not be admitted with an implement they had never even considered to be a weapon.

Yet another long line formed at a glassed-in kiosk where a pair of Expo Center security guards agreed to watch over the knives.

"It's kind of ironic, isn't it?" Rob Stevens of Bedford, Ky., said. "We preach the right to carry everywhere, and we got to start by turning in a pocketknife."

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2008/05/17/2008-05-17_with_mccain_on_hand_knives_wont_cut_it_a.html

Think they'd know this when a presidential candidate is speaking. BTW, most of them that carry guns also carry tactical folding knives so bet it was more than a few little keychain swiss army knives.

[struggle4progress]

21. "We're only in it for the money"

[scrinmaster]

22. It looks like the Secret Service banned them from the convention, not the NRA.

The Secret Service sets the rules in such circumstances, and even NRA big shots had to go through the screening. Thousands found themselves standing in a long, slow, feeder line before they even reached one of the lines that stretched in front of each metal detector.
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[krispos42]

23. Gee, a thread full of small-penis jokes

If that doesn't disprove the "liberal elite" meme, I don't know what will.



This is what I carry. Obviously I am compensating for a massive, throbbing package!




Single ladies, the line, of course, forms to the left!

:-)

[OneBlueSky]

24. "Can you say 'hypocrisy'? . . . I knew you could." . . . Mr. Rogers . . . n/t

[michreject]

25. It had to do with insurance

Like all gun shows. The owner of the building imposes the restrictions.

[Indenturedebtor]

27. Hah because the insurance company knows that guns kill people n/t

[Paladin]

31. Yeah, And Every time There's A Story About A Restaurant....

...or other business adopting a no guns on the premises policy, you Gun Nuts go berserk, screaming about your sacred 2nd Amendment rights, with nary a mention of insurance concerns. Fucking hypocrites.....

[dorktv]

26. Well with the visit from Senator McCain but...

hahahahahahaha

[Canuckistanian]

28. Theoretically, an auditorium full of guns should be the safest place in America

I mean by their logic, of course.

Don't they always say that the more guns there are, the safer America will be?

[Blue_Tires]

34. +1

[Tippy]

29. Bet Heston would not have given up his if he were still alive

Remember his "Cold dead hands" comment....Well the Republicans are going to try to make guns and issue again in this campaign or McCain would not have been there.

[Wetzelbill]

30. I saw that, way to live up to their own principles

They act nuts if somebody suggests you shouldn't be allowed to drive a tank on Main Street, then they totally wimp out when it comes to this.

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