On Mon, 4 Apr 2016 10:04:30 AM Trent W. Buck via luv-talk wrote:
You've got this one wrong. Guns on our streets make us all less safe. [...]
I assumed Russell was taking the piss.
Or he's hoping that more guns at reactionary American conferences will result in a reduction in the number of reactionary Americans...
The petitions are a combination of satire and trolling. The text satirises political arguments and trolls US politicians into acting less hypocritically.
If Russell is serious, I don't really see what it has to do with Australians (who constitute most of this list).
All US politics has a lot to do with us. Everything that happens there will be copied into our politics, fortunatly not always successfully. On Mon, 4 Apr 2016 12:25:36 PM Rick Moen via luv-talk wrote:
It was actually a delightful case of online trolling of the USA Republican Party by a pseudonymous wag -- successful to the extent of getting the Trump person to take it seriously in a television interview.
The trolling was ended by a brief matter-of-fact statement from the US Secret Service, who will be providing security at the Republican convention in Cleveland, Ohio (because candidates will be there), saying that attendees may not bring firearms, period. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/30/us/politics/secret-service-bans-guns-at-g op-convention-ending-debate.html
That doesn't necessarily end it. The next step is a petition on the White House petition site for Obama to issue an executive order permitting "protected persons" to request that they have no gun exclusion zone. If all the republican contenders request that guns be allowed I think that the Secret Service should be compelled to allow that. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/