• What The Fuck Am I Reading: Florida bans water guns from GOP convention, lets real guns through
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Sources: [url]http://www.examiner.com/article/gun-obsession-florida-bans-water-guns-but-allows-real-ones-at-gop-convention[/url] [url]http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/05/water-guns-banned-handguns-allowed-at-gop-convention/[/url] First couple of paragraphs: [quote]The state of Florida is in the news again and of course, it's for all the wrong reasons. Whether it's the shooting and murder of Trayvon Martin by George Zimmerman or radical laws being passed that were crafted by the evangelical Christian right, the state of Florida is becoming more infamous with each passing day. Later this year, the Republican National Convention is being held in downtown Tampa, Florida. The mayor of Tampa, Bob Buckhorn, issued an order banning specific items at the convention like lumber, hatchets, gas masks, chains and "super soaker" water guns, but one thing they can't ban is real guns. As the AP reports, the local City Council voted last week to ask Republican Governor, Rick Scott, to ban handguns and other concealed weapons from the convention due to the fear of violence and heated arguments leading up to the upcoming election.[/quote]
You are shitting me, this has to be a joke
I can understand why they would ban water guns... I suppose you could hide some nasty shit in there. But allowing normal guns sort of defeats that justification.
Nice
[QUOTE=TheFilmSlacker;35838273]This literally doesn't make sense from [I]any[/I] point of view. Seriously, like, what's their reasoning? So that kids won't get a bad influence from them or something? I played with water guns all the time as a kid and I wouldn't shoot someone if you paid me.[/QUOTE] If you want to kill someone when you're older, you need nothing but the real thing to practice :v:
I bet they are banned so that people wouldn't shoot water or other stuff around the place. It's very unlikely that somebody will start waving a real gun around and is going to shoot at others.
[QUOTE=TheFilmSlacker;35838273]This literally doesn't make sense from [I]any[/I] point of view. Seriously, like, what's their reasoning? So that kids won't get a bad influence from them or something? I played with water guns all the time as a kid and I wouldn't shoot someone if you paid me.[/QUOTE]Florida state law disallows the banning of firearms, even for a temporary event. Ergo, they banned what they legally could ban. And OP, use [URL="http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/05/water-guns-banned-handguns-allowed-at-gop-convention/"]an article[/URL] that has a writer that knows the meaning of objectivity. [SUP][SUP][SUP]Thanks babe.[/SUP][/SUP][/SUP]
[QUOTE=ExplodingGuy;35838328]Florida state law disallows the banning of firearms, even for a temporary event. Ergo, they banned what they legally could ban. And OP, use [url=http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/05/water-guns-banned-handguns-allowed-at-gop-convention/]an article[/url] that has a writer that knows the meaning of objectivity.[/QUOTE] I just use the article I find first. If other people have other sources I'm more than willing to put them in.
I personally don't believe firearms should be allowed in conventions, and I'm a huge gun-rights crusader.
could load the water gun with acid, dont want that to get on your face
[QUOTE=DarkSiper;35838424]could load the water gun with acid, dont want that to get on your face[/QUOTE] Yeah because a chemical burn is so much worse than a fragmented shard of hot metal that's hitting you with the force of a small motorbike.
[QUOTE=An Armed Bear;35838263]I suppose you could hide some nasty shit in there. [/QUOTE] [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdAIt4MgnHc[/media]
[QUOTE=DarkSiper;35838424]could load the water gun with acid, dont want that to get on your face[/QUOTE] Wouldn't that just melt the watergun?
[QUOTE=Ericson666;35838548]Wouldn't that just melt the watergun?[/QUOTE] Depends on the acid. Most acids can be stored fine in plastic, especially the common ones like acetic acid (CH3COOH) (vinegar), hydrochloric acid (HCl) (muriatic acid, pool acid, w/e) or sulfuric acid (H2SO4) (car battery acid). You've acids that'll go through plastic like nitric acid (HNO3), but those are harder to get to someone that can't just go get a gun anyway. Those are the 4 acids you can find without going into a lab, and if you wanna mess someone up, you'll use sulfuric acid as it literally turns your skin into elemental carbon by dehydrating the molecules (as in, literally taking away water molecules).
[QUOTE=Irkalla;35838505][media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdAIt4MgnHc[/media][/QUOTE] how does this even exist. :v:
I can only guess they think they can be modified and filled with gasoline to create non-suspicious flamethrowers to burn your boss' face off with. Beyond that, what were they thinking?
[QUOTE=0lenny0;35838317]I bet they are banned so that people wouldn't shoot water or other stuff around the place. It's very unlikely that somebody will start waving a real gun around and is going to shoot at others.[/QUOTE] There are people who like to stress their rights.
[QUOTE=TheFilmSlacker;35838273]This literally doesn't make sense from [I]any[/I] point of view. Seriously, like, what's their reasoning? So that kids won't get a bad influence from them or something? I played with water guns all the time as a kid and I wouldn't shoot someone if you paid me.[/QUOTE] It is illegal under Florida law for any authority other than the state to regulate firearms, including this city.
A man with a super soaker is a lot more likely to cause a disruption than a man with a CCL wearing his EDC.
[QUOTE=mastermaul;35841128]A man with a super soaker is a lot more likely to cause a disruption than a man with a CCL wearing his EDC.[/QUOTE] unless he intends on shooting people in which case he's gonna cause mad disruptions, yo
[QUOTE=SigmaLambda;35841253]unless he intends on shooting people in which case he's gonna cause mad disruptions, yo[/QUOTE] If someone wants to start shooting up a convention they'd hardly care whether guns are allowed or not
You don't wanna get wet while you are getting shot are you?
[QUOTE=CakeMaster7;35841381]If someone wants to start shooting up a convention they'd hardly care whether guns are allowed or not[/QUOTE] Except the convention would probably have security to check if people had anything. A lot of important people will be there, so security should already be of the highest concern.
Why did they ban wood?
Well my state's just looking dumber every minute.
No lumber allowed? There goes the Home Depot vote. But seriously, the GOP doesn't want anyone to get wood at their convention.
[QUOTE=0lenny0;35838317]I bet they are banned so that people wouldn't shoot water or other stuff around the place. It's very unlikely that somebody will start waving a real gun around and is going to shoot at others.[/QUOTE] This. If you try to fire a gun off at a convention where EVERYONE also has a gun, your ass will be gone faster than you can say "communism".
Well of course, no fun allowed is party policy for the Repubs.
The safest thing conventions can do is make guns [i]mandatory,[/i] so everyone is to afraid of shooting anyone else.
[QUOTE=Snake7;35843108]The safest thing conventions can do is make guns [i]mandatory,[/i] so everyone is to afraid of shooting anyone else.[/QUOTE] Then there's the issue of the suicidal individual who is expecting death
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