The president of the Cleveland Police Union, Steve Loomis, asked Ohio Gov. John Kasich ® to suspend open carry laws this weekend following the slayings of three more police officers in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, saying that he didn’t “care if it’s constitutional or not.”
Awwwwwww…what’s wrong, Stevie? You afraid that The People might come down there and have their say?
You know, like the GOP claims the Founders “intended”? Watering the Tree of Libderpity and all that shit?
God, please let him be right.
"“there have been no real threats, either to the convention or to the city or to the division of police itself.”
Meanwhile…Faux News is busy propping up the “we’re th REAL victims” narrative, comparing this RNC convention as akin to the Dems’ convention in 1968 in Chicago and trying to make it sound like Bedlam…because, you know, Black Panthers, black people, etc. etc. , yadda yadda something something race war.
"Cleveland Chief of Police Calvin Williams discussed security surrounding the Republican National Convention in a press conference Monday, saying that “there have been no real threats, either to the convention…”
You are looking the wrong way. Its not threats TO the convention, its the threat FROM the convention to rest of the nation.
Besides the Oathkeepers and the Bikers and other armed groups for Trump will be there and armed, so it should be fine, we all know that shootings only happen in gun-free zones.
Those guys on the right - they’re cops? Because if you look closely, you can see the bicycle handles, and the helmet cams and body armor.
It looks like something out of a William Gibson novel, crossed with the X Games.
But it doesn’t look like cops.
What could possibly go wrong? Half a dozen right-wing militias plus New Black Panthers armed to the teeth in an open carry zone with police in riot gear while those inside ramp the fear and hatred up to 11? All we need is for Kasich to send in the Ohio National Guard. Not a chance that anything could go wrong.
You’re right. What I mistook for gun barrels and riot helmets are just bicycle handles and bike helmets. And not a uniform emblem (or even American flag patch) in sight.
The problem is going to be, with all of those hundreds of civilians wandering around with AR-15s slung over their shoulders, how are the cops going to be able to pick out the Bad Guy with a Gun before he has already started shooting?
Simple answer is, they can’t.
With all the gun-nuts and open-carry enthusiasts (Incidentally, who also happen to be the most anti-government groups) showing up to Cleveland, it would be almost more surprising if there was Not some major shooting incident this week than if there was.
Donny Toddler says:
"We need more guns in the street to make this convention safer.
This is a very logical position, not just the sociopathic ranting of an unstable toddler, with a mess in his pants.
So, the cops don’t look like cops, but they may be armed.
And the open carry guys don’t look like cops, and may be armed.
And everyone else who wants to protest, like the New Black Panthers, won’t look like cops, and may be armed.
What could possibly go wrong?
If the inevitable tragedy wasn’t going to likely involve the deaths of innocent cops and bystanders, I’d say, “Pass the popcorn”.
As it stands, this is just a disgusting example of how far we have fallen as a society.
Going by that picture the machines have arrived .