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Petition to allow guns at Republican convention nears 30,000 signatures
Tens of thousands of people have signed an anonymous call to allow weapons to be carried at the Republican national convention in July
An online petition to allow guns into the Republican National Convention has received almost 35,000 signatures by supporters who have declared the decision to make the arena a gun-free zone a hypocritical act.
The convention will be held between 18 and 21 July at the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, a venue with a policy that forbids “firearms and other weapons of any kind” on its grounds.
The petition's author who remains anonymous asks the three remaining Republican presidential candidate to push the Republican National Committee to push for this policy to be changed, arguing that it is putting participants lives "at risk".
"Cleveland, Ohio is consistently ranked as one of the top ten most dangerous cities in America," the petition says. "By forcing attendees toleave their firearms at home, the RNC and Quicken Loans Arena are putting tens of thousands of people at risk both inside and outside of the convention site."
An attendee holds a campaign sign with a "Guns Save Lives" sticker at a campaign rally for Donald Trump at the Radford University Dedmon Arena in Radford, Virginia. Photo: Bloomberg
It is the "worst and most dangerous of all lies" to suggest that gun-free zones bring safety, the petition says: "The NRA, our leading defender of gun rights, has also correctly pointed out that "gun free zones... tell every insane killer in America... (the) safest place to inflict maximum mayhem with minimum risk"."
In the event of an attack on the venue people there "will be sitting ducks," raising the spectre that the Islamic State extremist group could target it, the petition says.
"We are all too familiar with the mass carnage that can occur when citizens are denied their basic God-given rights to carry handguns or assault weapons in public," the petition adds.
Firearms were banned by the Secret Service at the Republican convention in Tampa in 2012, US media say.
Speaking to ABC's This Week, Donald Trump, the Republican frontrunner said he wanted to "study" the petition.
While proclaiming himself "a very, very strong person for the Second Amendment he said: "I have not seen the petition. I want to see what it says. I want to read the fine print."
John Kasich, and Ted Cruz, Mr Trump's Republican rivals have not commented on the issue.
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