Gov. Rick Scott turns down Tampa's request to ban guns outside GOP convention

[shawn703]

Source: Tampa Bay Times

TAMPA — Gov. Rick Scott has rejected Tampa's request to ban concealed weapons outside the Republican National Convention.

Mayor Bob Buckhorn asked Scott on Tuesday to issue an executive order prohibiting the transportation of firearms in downtown Tampa during the convention, Aug. 27-30.

In a response dated the same day, Scott said Tampa was overreaching. Already, he said, the Secret Service will ban firearms inside the Tampa Bay Times Forum, the site of the convention, as well as in a hardened security perimeter immediately around the convention campus.

"You are now requesting that citizens be disarmed in all of downtown Tampa, including in areas across the river, and distant from the convention center and Secret Service safe zone," Scott wrote in a two-page letter to the city.

Read more: http://www.tampabay.com/news/localgovernment/article1228001.ece

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[villager]

1. So when/where/how will the convention's first shooting take place?

[HockeyMom]

3. Especially since the Alien in the State Office

is so loved himself.

[msongs]

2. might as well cancel secret service and save $$ if guns are going to be allowed everywhere nt

[ManiacJoe]

8. Except that guns are not allowed everywhere.

Did you not read the article?

[jberryhill]

4. Wadda Maroon

Doesn't he realize that all attendees have to travel from the venue to the hotels and back each day?

[tanyev]

5. Protestors should just stay away from this one.

It could be a big year for the Darwin Awards.

[tech3149]

7. How about this idea?

The undercover cops should dress all in black with black ski masks. Oh Hell! They already do that!

[NC_Nurse]

6. Maybe they'll all shoot each other.

I suppose it's too much to dream for.

[nradisic]

9. Oh boy...

I can see a couple of nuts going on a shooting spree inside the convention hall after an argument....quick, get the popcorn.

[DonCoquixote]

11. make jokes all you want

but read the comments section of this very liberal paper, and you will see people bragging about how they intend to shoot leftists. They want a riot.