""[It's] utterly ridiculous," Robert Bauman, a Milwaukee City Alderman who proposed adding guns to that city ordinance, told ABC News. "I mean, I could just picture this image of somebody coming up to the entry point with, you know, an AR-15 strapped over one shoulder, a long rifle over another, and two pistols in his belt, and the cops asking him, 'You got any tennis balls?'"
^^I would pay money to see that scene^^
Which one of you lemmings in Milwaukee gonna go show off your 2nd amendment rights? Leave the tennis balls at home, tho!
Cut a hole in the tennis ball, stick it on the muzzle of your AR-15 and call it a silencer. Bet you could smuggle in a number of tennis balls that way
The ATF would like to disagree and kill your dog
What if my dog is my silencer?
As long as you've accounted for point-of-impact shift and paid your $200 tax, you're good to go.
No, I will not and this Davey Crockett tactical nuke in my home museum agrees.
This is a Wasteland 2 joke I do not have a tactical nuke, a silencer, or even a working gun. I do have a 100 plus year old broken revolver though.
That’s disappointing that tennis balls will not be allowed. Do the people with walkers coat check them in with there guns?
No. They don't have to coat check the guns.
If they’re going to allow guns in the RNC, I hope they at least manage to round up a handful of competent secret service agents, if that still exists.
Im fine with republicans getting the secret detail they deserve.
No, that’s not okay. People killing politicians to advance a political agenda is chaos writ large. It cannot be allowed to happen.
While I concur that assassination has no place in a functional democracy; if Hitler had been assassinated during WW2 it would have surely been chaotic for Germany. Therein lies the question: is chaos inherently worse than an actively unjust order?
You can play all the theoretical moral games you want. Political assassinations of leaders is madness.
Everyone in Hitler's orbit was just as hateful as he was. But in many cases, they were smarter and less insane. Killing Hitler could have easily made WW2 a lot worse for everyone. What if you assassinated Hitler only to cause the Nazis to win?
Maybe. Maybe it would have accelerated the decline of the third reich. It's impossible to know and fruitless to theorize about.
Of course it can't. Unless they are dumb enough to let the whole crowd be armed. At that point you just can't fix stupid. After all, in this case it is vigilante justice really. Since he is a convicted felon. But I suspect he will be behind bulletproof glass or something.
You’re probably right that Trump will be behind bulletproof glass, but the threat of a domestic terrorist attack there did just go up about a thousand percent.
They aren't allowing them in the RNC, that's the hard perimeter established by the SS.
The soft perimeter surrounding that is where they allow guns but not tennis balls.
but tennis balls will not
Are they worried that Ryoma Hoshi might be real?
This tells me the explosives they found in Crooks’ vehicle were hidden in tennis balls
The restriction on tennis balls is apparently a city restriction that pre-dates the attempt so... 🤔🤷♂️🤷♂️🤔
Aww that’s a lot less silly and therefore less fun (still pretty silly though I guess)
I want the right to bare balls
Not sure if that's what's meant by 'open carry'
They should be allowed inside the venue. After all, gun free zones are a big problem.
I wonder what would happen if someone drove by one of those places and played bullet sounds on their ghetto blaster...
Or the sounds of a tennis match
I took a golf ball to the forehead off a tee box. That wasn't fun.
Republican events and rallies are the one place I support as many guns as possible being there.
They should live their values.
trump is a World Wrestling Entertainment Hall of Famer
Odds are they are terrified that people will toss a tennis ball around the same way people tossed a beach ball around to "protest" Super Roman (... while making sure to buy every available ticket).
How about a loaded soup-can gauge shotgun?
You kid, but the 2 gauge (not a typo!) "Punt Gun" was a thing! Used for shooting mass numbers of ducks and geese!
both these guys were deaf shortly after firing this
Pretty sure this photo was just for scale, the normal use case was mounted in a small boat or "Punt".
But geeze... these pictures...
This sounds like a Monty Python sketch or something. It's just so absurdist.
Please proceed
Not sure what the deal is with tennis balls, raquet balls hurt a whole lot more!
They consider tennis balls to be raquetball furries.
Are 4G/5G phones allowed? Because those can fry your brain.
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