Police ask for emergency suspension of open carry in Cleveland

Posted by | July 17, 2016 14:54 | Filed under: Politics


The Cleveland Police Benevolent Association is asking Governor Kasich to suspend open carry during the Republican Convention.

Strangely, in the area around the convention, “tennis balls, metal-tipped umbrellas or canned goods” are prohibited. But AR-15s or other firearms are not.

But now, the Cleveland Police Union has made an emergency request to suspend open carry for the duration of the Republican convention.

“We are sending a letter to Gov. Kasich requesting assistance from him. He could very easily do some kind of executive order or something — I don’t care if it’s constitutional or not at this point,” Cleveland Police Union president Stephen Loomis told CNN.

The request may be related to the violence in Baton Rogue, where three police officers were killed today. (Loomis also blamed Obama for those shootings, saying he had “blood on his hands.”)

The request will put Governor Kasich in an awkward position. In general Republicans argue that open-carry laws are an important party of the right to bear arms and improve public safety. The research does not support this argument.

 

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27 responses to Police ask for emergency suspension of open carry in Cleveland

  1. robert July 17th, 2016 at 14:59

    Kasich is a nut job for allowing open and carry to begin with Now it’s not a good idea

    • granpa.usthai July 17th, 2016 at 15:39

      maybe if they let their law enforcers open carry also?

      -or deputize those who show up with their choice of ARMS ?

      cdn.wonderfulengineering.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/nuclear_blast.gif

      if you look closely, you can make out some faces is the fireball.

      • robert July 17th, 2016 at 17:17

        nah, they wont give the trumpster any nukes to distribute

  2. Guy Lauten July 17th, 2016 at 15:03

    But what about the Party of Principles?
    Who will protect all the conventioneers from ISIS? Or BLM?
    We know the police are “totally outgunned”, so the citizens must step into their shoes, right?

    • granpa.usthai July 17th, 2016 at 15:26

      why rely on those who have no legal responsibility to defend you when seconds count?

      better they should exercise their Constitutional Right that shall not be infringed upon.

      Nukies do.

  3. arc99 July 17th, 2016 at 15:14

    The local police consider open carry to be a safety risk.

    Republicans tell us that the police are always right.

    Whichever argument prevails, another right wing talking point will have bitten the dust.

  4. Tommie July 17th, 2016 at 15:14

    Now that some Blacks and others might show up with guns! All of a sudden it’s not a good idea for open carry! Haha!

    • granpa.usthai July 17th, 2016 at 15:24

      HA!

    • Candide Gunn July 18th, 2016 at 02:29

      I say it is because RICH people…lots and lots of rich republican assholes all lumped in one spot might get a taste of what it is like to be surrounded by people with guns…you know, that condition that they passed laws to force on the rest of us? It must be nice to be able to change laws when they are inconvenient.

  5. granpa.usthai July 17th, 2016 at 15:22

    WTF teabaggers.

    are you going to just sit there like you do when the nra attempts to take away my 2nd Amendment Right to keep and bear NUCLEAR ARMS!?!

    WTF is the nra terrorist organization anway?

    aren’t they suppose to be ADAMANTLY supportive of the right to keep and bear assault firearms?

    How F’d up is this?

    Doesn’t really matter though – to my fellow nukies in Cleveland:

    stay armed – with your thumb firmly pressed down on your pressure release detonator trigger. If needs be, it’s only going to take one of you to make our voices heard!

  6. whatthe46 July 17th, 2016 at 15:36

    “(Loomis also blamed Obama for those shootings, saying he had “blood on his hands.”)” seems these idiots have a problem laying the blame where it actually belongs. “police officers” who go about willy nilly murdering and executing innocent men of color and not being held responsible, has absolutely nothing to do with this right?

    • allison1050 July 17th, 2016 at 15:53

      The SEIU are well past due for a parting of ways.

  7. allison1050 July 17th, 2016 at 15:51

    But, but won’t they be safer with all of those good guys with gunz there? ;~)

    • crc3 July 17th, 2016 at 16:29

      The NRA thinks so but what the hell do they know?

  8. anothertoothpick July 17th, 2016 at 16:00

    They should just call the whole godamn thing off.

    Give trump some kind of a worthless plastic trophy and call it a day.

    • Suzanne McFly July 17th, 2016 at 16:37

      Hell no, I can’t wait to see this huge eff up.

  9. Hirightnow July 17th, 2016 at 16:01

    http://i.imgur.com/DKJhx9l.gif?noredirect

  10. bpollen July 17th, 2016 at 16:20

    I keep hearing conservatives say we should trust the police. Anybody wanna give me odds on whether or not they will support law enforcement on this issue?

  11. crc3 July 17th, 2016 at 16:32

    What a cluster f**k!!

  12. William July 17th, 2016 at 16:33

    What? After all this ballyhoo about second amendment rights? Now they want to dissolve the rights of *snicker*, good God fearing *guffaw* Americans from their right to have guns at or near a republican convention? What kind of country is this? What would the founding fathers think? https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/9a8bf82b8517d5b0955d952972902223ffbbc0c33956cd7951740c6e3e15febf.jpg

  13. spacegod July 17th, 2016 at 17:56

    What a clusterTrump.

  14. CHOCOL8MILK July 17th, 2016 at 19:36

    I’m sure we will hear that all of this is Obama’s fault.

  15. amersham1046 July 17th, 2016 at 20:12

    The police fearing good Americas just exercising the rights, now why is that?

    • Candide Gunn July 18th, 2016 at 02:25

      because a bunch of RICH people might hurt…as long as it is only poor people dying, they will demand that the guns be scared religious icons of the republican party.

  16. jybarz July 17th, 2016 at 21:55

    Was truly hoping right wing gun nuts will be carrying inside the GOP convention and things getting rowdy especially the die hard Tramp shithead supporters and Tramp can then praise them as he normally does.

    2nd Amendment must be respected! Yeah!

  17. Candide Gunn July 18th, 2016 at 02:24

    Hahhahahaah so now all of a sudden the GOP gun party is scared of guns when THEY might be the ones to get shot…but the rest of the time, when it is other people dying they demand there be as many guns as possible everywhere and all the time?

    And look who they have to ask for it!

  18. fahvel July 18th, 2016 at 02:48

    let them carry – it’s the image the world is waiting for – usa armed to the teeth in their own cities – those folks scare the planet.

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