NRA Bans Guns During Convention Speech By President, Vice President

[Dulcinea]

Victims of the Florida high school shooting and their parents are criticizing the National Rifle Association after it announced gun advocates won't be allowed to bring weapons to watch Vice President Mike Pence deliver the NRA-ILA's leadership forum keynote address in Dallas on Friday.

"Wait wait wait wait wait wait you're telling me to make the VP safe there aren't any weapons around but when it comes to children they want guns everywhere?," Matt Deitsch, a student at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School who helped organize the March For Our Lives protest, wrote on Twitter.

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/05/01/607054795/nra-bans-guns-during-convention-speech-by-president-vice-president

[Girard442]

1. So, in every community, someone gets deputized by the Secret Service...

...and people in the community (like teachers) get designated as VIPs in need of Secret Service protection. Voila! Now we can designate any venue as a gun-free zone. The NRA said we could.

[malthaussen]

2. They do this at all their conventions. n/t