The NRA bans guns inside its national convention

[F1fan]

The NRA is having it's annual convention this weekend in Indianapolis. They featured all the republican nominees for president for the 2024 election. Yet oddly the NRA has banned guns in a convention that promotes guns. The irony of this is that this organization, and politicians who support it, advocate for more guns in society at large. Guns in schools, guns at stores, guns in libraries, guns in theaters, guns on the street open carry, guns at church, guns at concerts, guns at political rallies, guns in hospitals, guns in parks, guns everywhere all the time, except their own convention.

Can anyone explain how this makes sense? Is the NRA afraid of guns?

 

[Twilight Hue]

The NRA is having it's annual convention this weekend in Indianapolis. They featured all the republican nominees for president for the 2024 election. Yet oddly the NRA has banned guns in a convention that promotes guns. The irony of this is that this organization, and politicians who support it, advocate for more guns in society at large. Guns in schools, guns at stores, guns in libraries, guns in theaters, guns on the street open carry, guns at church, guns at concerts, guns at political rallies, guns in hospitals, guns in parks, guns everywhere all the time, except their own convention.

Can anyone explain how this makes sense? Is the NRA afraid of guns?

Source?

There are no links whatsoever, so it's just a bunch of vapid hearsay at this point.

 

[Debater Slayer]

The NRA is having it's annual convention this weekend in Indianapolis. They featured all the republican nominees for president for the 2024 election. Yet oddly the NRA has banned guns in a convention that promotes guns. The irony of this is that this organization, and politicians who support it, advocate for more guns in society at large. Guns in schools, guns at stores, guns in libraries, guns in theaters, guns on the street open carry, guns at church, guns at concerts, guns at political rallies, guns in hospitals, guns in parks, guns everywhere all the time, except their own convention.

Can anyone explain how this makes sense? Is the NRA afraid of guns?

That claim is only partially accurate:

What's True
It's true firearms were not allowed at the hall where former U.S. President Donald Trump and former U.S. Vice President Mike Pence, among others, were slated to address the event. However ...

What's False
... Attendees could carry firearms at other events during the conference.

Are Guns Not Allowed at NRA 2023 Conference in Indianapolis?

A recurring, misleading claim about guns being banned at NRA annual meetings surfaced again in April 2023.

www.snopes.com

 

[Revoltingest]

Can anyone explain how this makes sense? Is the NRA afraid of guns?

Because many MAGAs will attend.
And the NRA will have armed security, which is
necessary when possession is banned. So the
convention won't have the problems seen at
schools & churches, where perps know they'll
be shooting fish in a barrel.

 

[F1fan]

Source?

There are no links whatsoever, so it's just a bunch of vapid hearsay at this point.

It's been reported and isn't a secret. Don't you find it hypocritical of gun rights advocates want guns allowed everywhere but restrict them at the NRA convention? Isn't it filled with the "good guys with guns"? Shouldn't it be the safest place for all the speakers?

 

[Subduction Zone]

It's been reported and isn't a secret. Don't you find it hypocritical of gun rights advocates want guns allowed everywhere but restrict them at the NRA convention? Isn't it filled with the "good guys with guns"? Shouldn't it be the safest place for all the speakers?

It is actually the Secret Service that is causing this ban, and I can understand it. They still have to protect Trump and Pence and they do not feel safe around weapons. Which makes sense. if some crazy wanted to kill Trump pr Pence that would have been an excellent place to do it.

 

[Viker]

It is actually the Secret Service that is causing this ban, and I can understand it. They still have to protect Trump and Pence and they do not feel safe around weapons. Which makes sense. if some crazy wanted to kill Trump pr Pence that would have been an excellent place to do it.

It does actually make sense. It's just that there is a little bit of irony to it.

 

[Subduction Zone]

It does actually make sense. It's just that there is a little bit of irony to it.

A lot of irony.

 

[Twilight Hue]

It's been reported and isn't a secret. Don't you find it hypocritical of gun rights advocates want guns allowed everywhere but restrict them at the NRA convention? Isn't it filled with the "good guys with guns"? Shouldn't it be the safest place for all the speakers?

I still see no sources as expected, and of course there's more to this than the lopsided misinformation thread you made on it by your reluctance to even provide a link.

 

[F1fan]

I still see no sources.

Debate Slayer, post #3.

 

[We Never Know]

It does actually make sense. It's just that there is a little bit of irony to it.

Don't you know Trump and Pence are above us everyday peasants.

 

[Twilight Hue]

Debate Slayer, post #3.

Which shows it wasn't a complete ban which of course , I suspected all along.

 

[F1fan]

It is actually the Secret Service that is causing this ban, and I can understand it. They still have to protect Trump and Pence and they do not feel safe around weapons. Which makes sense. if some crazy wanted to kill Trump pr Pence that would have been an excellent place to do it.

So the secret service thinks guns are dangerous to the well being of Trump even in front of NRA members? But republicans think guns in schools or theaters don't pose a threat to ordinary citizens?

 

[Subduction Zone]

So the secret service thinks guns are dangerous to the well being of Trump even in front of NRA members? But republicans think guns in schools or theaters don't pose a threat to ordinary citizens?

Trump is not the best judge in these matters earlier. On January 6 he did not want people screened with metal detectors. He told them that they would not be after him or some other words to that effect. He did not think that he was in danger. But thinking that one is safe is when assassinations often occur. Bobby Kennedy was shot in what he thought was a safe environment. His brother was assassinated while amongst a parade in a heavily pro-Kennedy area. If one is ready to throw away one's life it used to be far too easy to kill top officials. The Secret Service has learned its lessons and takes protecting Presidents and ex-Presidents very very seriously these days.

 

[We Never Know]

Debate Slayer, post #3.

From the link in post #3...

IMPORTANT: Security Information for the NRA-ILA Leadership Forum. Please read carefully.
U.S. Secret Service will control security within Hall A of the Indiana Convention Center and require attendees of the forum to be screened through magnetometers before entry. You will be subject to a search of your person and belongings.
Per the U.S. SECRET SERVICE, firearms, firearm accessories, knives, and other items WILL NOT BE PERMITTED in Hall A. For a full list of prohibited items, please click here. Read the list of prohibited items carefully before traveling to the event. You will not be allowed in Hall A with any of the items on this list. Attendees are strongly advised to not bring bags to help with timely security processing.

So did the NRA ban guns in hall A or did secret service ban guns in hall A?

 

[Subduction Zone]

From the link in post #3...



So did the NRA ban guns in hall A or did secret service ban guns in hall A?

I think that he now knows that it was not the NRA that banned guns at Presidential venues. But nice digging on your part.

 

[F1fan]

From the link in post #3...



So did the NRA ban guns in hall A or did secret service ban guns in hall A?

Guns pose a threat to others, or not? If what the NRA claims is true then good guys with guns are a safe thing.

Maybe the NRA has been lying all this time as kids get murdered in their classrooms.

 

[Revoltingest]

if some crazy wanted to kill Trump pr Pence that would have been an excellent place to do it.

Why assume they're crazy?

 

[Twilight Hue]

Why assume they're crazy?

Ohhh....visit from Secret Service.... .

 

[F1fan]

So no one can explain why guns had to be banned from an event if they are a right? What about all the criticism about "gun free zones" that we hear about? Is the NRA's position on gun free zones just dangerous propaganda?

NRA spokeswoman calls for end to gun-free zones after Jacksonville shooting

National Rifle Association (NRA) spokeswoman Dana Loesch on Sunday called for an end or alteration to gun-free zones following a shooting at a Jacksonville, Fla., entertainment center that bans fir…

thehill.com