Expect a bloody weekend in Indianapolis

[level0]

This may be the only weekend I'd even consider going downtown. Maybe hit that Steak 'n Shake...bet they are open this weekend....

 

[pute62]

This may be the only weekend I'd even consider going downtown. Maybe hit that Steak 'n Shake...bet they are open this weekend....

I'd rep you if I wasn't on this damn Iphone!

 

[churchmouse]

I'd rep you if I wasn't on this damn Iphone!

I got him for both of us.

 

[hoosierdoc]

The Zombies know that most everyone downtown will be sporting a side arm.

> 95% of those I saw at the convention had no visible firearm

 

[churchmouse]

> 95% of those I saw at the convention had no visible firearm

How many of those were still carrying I wonder.

 

[Bottlefed]

Can you carry at the convention center?

 

[Cameramonkey]

Can you carry at the convention center?

Yes, as said before repeatedly, allowing otherwise legal carry was a requirement by the NRA to seal the deal. The city had to waive the "no firearms" rule this weekend.

One of the first things I saw as I walked in was a tiny little twenty something in her skin tight jeans, tight Tee, and a glock on one hip, and a mag carrier on the other.

You usually had to look close. Watch people as they move about and print ever so slightly. It was a glorious sight to behold.

I lost track of the number of armed individuals I saw there. (myself included)

 

[hoosierdoc]

How many of those were still carrying I wonder.

Six. Now you know

 

[tbhausen]

I just ate at Steak and Shake. Miraculously no violence broke out. The two police officers by the door said that they're there every weekend and this was the most polite crowd they had seen in a long time.

 

[Waveraider]

I wonder what the punks hanging at Circle Center Mall are thinking right now, with thousands of old Guy's walking around with pistols strapped to their side. I bet this weekend is the safest of the year.

 

[femurphy77]

I wonder what the punks hanging at Circle Center Mall are thinking right now, with thousands of old Guy's walking around with pistols strapped to their side. I bet this weekend is the safest of the year.

How about this; "Dude you mug me then I'll mug you, eybody else packin' heat!"

 

[87iroc]

I saw a bunch of pistols...but I'd bet that no more than 25% were actually packing.

 

[Bennettjh]

I have to go downtown tomorrow, I'm not looking forward to the crowd.

I'll be very uneasy with all those pistol-packin' hillbillies around. Oh wait, I'll be one of them.

 

[indykid]

I have to give them credit, the local news was crying their eyes out, including commercials about how bad firearms are, and that this world will never be a good place to live until they get all those evil weapons off the streets. Yep, gotta hand it to the news, unfair and unbalanced.

 

[vitamink]

If you do go downtown, do everyone a favor and don't leave your recently purchased firearms in your car with the "I'm a gun owner" stickers everywhere. I heard 3 vehicle break ins with weapons stolen from 2:00-3:00. Actually this goes for anything. Don't park your car and leave your ipad on the dash or your wife's purse on the front seat.

 

[longbarrel]

Gonna go out on a limb, and say that downtown Indy will be the safest city in the country for at least this weekend. News probably won't report it, unless of course, there is an accidental discharge.

 

[cop car]

> 95% of those I saw at the convention had no visible firearm

I only noticed 2-3 people open carrying, but then again I wasn't eye fing everyone. I would guess that 25% or so of people 50+ had firearms, and 50-60% of people under 50 had them. that's the way it usually goes. 18-30 year olds IMO have the highest percentage of carry

oh and I was concealing, per 100% of my day lol

 

[stephen87]

Yes, as said before repeatedly, allowing otherwise legal carry was a requirement by the NRA to seal the deal. The city had to waive the "no firearms" rule this weekend.

One of the first things I saw as I walked in was a tiny little twenty something in her skin tight jeans, tight Tee, and a glock on one hip, and a mag carrier on the other.

You usually had to look close. Watch people as they move about and print ever so slightly. It was a glorious sight to behold.

I lost track of the number of armed individuals I saw there. (myself included)

The city does not have a no firearms rule. Same goes for the convention center. IC states that no government entity may pass nor enforce a prohibition on firearms, ammunition, or firearms accessory. The convention center is owned by a government entity, and as such, is not legally able to prohibit carrying a firearm. The caveat to that is that they may allow someone who leases the property, in this case the NRA, to prohibit or allow firearms and then they are legally allowed to enforce the policy. So if the NRA was "fighting" someone to allow firearms at the event, they were fighting themselves or an illegal directive. Just saying.

 

[swany11]

Now they have hijacked the IndyStar.com homepage:

 

[jwh20]

Now they have hijacked the IndyStar.com homepage:

Don't think that these people, who have been duped by Mr. Bloomberg and the like into thinking this is about anything but banning any and all guns, are anything more than the same "sheeple" who would trash their freedom for a hollow promise of safety we've been seeing all along.

It's the same nonsensical argument by the similarly misnamed MAIG group. Namely that the NRA and gun owners are the BAD GUYS and we need more and better laws to get all these guns "off our streets." It's about the children, remember the children! Oh the children...

As much as these folks would love it to be true the hard facts remain that GUNS TO NOT CAUSE CRIME. Sadly even yesterday, again in CT, a student was killed in a school. But NOT with a gun, but with a knife. The weapons are NOT the problem. The problem that NONE of these so-called "gun safety" groups want to address is WHY people more and more resort to deadly violence to resolve their issues. I have my own theory on this but it's not popular among leftist-elitists. But for them, the EMOTIONAL traction they get with these "plea for safety" ploys is just one more way to advance their true agenda of disarming the American people so that we can take the next step in joining the "world community." Right now we can't do that because we're special and in the "progressive" world-view, the only people allowed to be special are THEM!

The liberal-run Indy Star as well as the local TV stations have been falling over themselves to put this new group on the headlines.