Consider This-Concealed Handgun To Crowded Theatre=Fine//Credentialed Jounalist At RNC=Security Risk

[kpete]

... En route I befriended a French photographer covering the RNC for a Paris-based newspaper. I never got his name. He was in search of protesters too, and had seen them the previous day. To get from the trolly stop to the side of downtown where we believed the protesters to be we used our credentials to enter the secure zone, which looks like a scene from a Call of Duty game. It's as if Tampa was already hit by a massive terrorist attack and is in lock-down. On roads approaching the restricted area Tampa police officers direct traffic elsewhere. Groups of police on horseback trot regularly by. Other squads pedal around on bicycles. Closer still are concrete barricades, national guardsmen in military fatigues carrying assault weapons, Secret Service agents, SWAT teams in what I can only describe as combat pajamas, golf carts that look as though they were manufactured by Hummer, a surfeit of orange cones, and various "ACME Barricades" products. "Yesterday I was walking on the wrong side of a fence and an officer told me if I didn't want to get shot by a sniper I should go on the other side," the photographer said. ...

... Consider this. Want to carry a concealed handgun to a crowded movie theater? The Republican Party will defend your right to do so. But credentialed journalists traversing a random block in downtown Tampa several blocks from the GOP convention, with scores of police officers and tons of concrete barriers still separating them from the delegates? Apparently that's too much of a security risk.

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/08/security-at-the-rnc-george-orwell-meets-a-call-of-duty-cityscape/261644/

[4th law of robotics]

1. Most theaters I've seen don't allow CHL holders to carry

except LEOs.

And even if they did if that theater were filled with prominent national politicians the rules would be different.

[Nuclear Unicorn]

2. An apt summary of a poorly constructed argument.

Of course there is going to be heavy security around such events.

Of course if the author's viewpoint were being conversely applied to the DNC the message would be, "Democrats feel entitled to heavy security. You personally? Not so much." Always a losing message.