More than 20,000 sign petition to allow guns at Republican National Convention – CNN https://t.co/TV1TRviFNr
— James Martinelli (@Mlaj1591) March 26, 2016
I thought it was a joke. The RNC really wants a Trump-Cruz showdown with guns in the hall? Oh. My. God. https://t.co/BvX9OLI3Pr
— AlGiordano (@AlGiordano) March 26, 2016
It’s almost certainly a joke — because Murphy the Trickster God does not love us Democrats that much — but it’s hard to imagine a better practical joke emerging before next Friday. Per USA Today:
More than 25,000 people have signed a petition to allow firearms inside the Republican National Convention being held in Cleveland in July.
Firearms are currently not permitted inside the Quicken Loans Arena, known as “the Q,” where the gathering will take place.
The petition, posted Monday on Change.org, sought only 5,000 signatures but has since quintupled, topping 25,000 Saturday afternoon. It was posted by an author identified only as “N.A.” from Cleveland, but the user profile appears to have been deleted from the website.
It was not clear whether the person posting the petition was backing the proposal or attempting to put the party, which strongly backs gun rights, in an awkward position…
The Ohio GOP denies all knowledge, as they would.
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