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Coming soon to the scene of the slaughter near you:
A gun show is scheduled in the vicinity of Newtown, Conn., in a few weeks.
Big Al’s Gun Shows is bringing its traveling firearms market to the Crown Plaza hotel in Danbury, 13 miles from Newtown, on Jan. 5 and 6.
According to Big Al’s Web site (warning: click on it and you hear a loud gunshot), children under 10 will get in free when accompanied by an adult.
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A man who answered the phone number listed on the Big Al’s site said “yes” when asked Tuesday morning if the show was still on. When asked further questions, he replied, “I really have no comments, buddy.” When asked his name, he said, “Have a good day” and hung up.
One of the easiest things you can do is make facilities hosting traveling gun shows with their itinerant death gun merchants “uncomfortable” with hosting these kinds of events.
For example: you can express your displeasure by calling Crown Plaza Danbury at 1-877-227-6963. BE NICE.
That would be a start…
(UPDATE):
2:02 P.M. No Gun Show in Danbury, Hotel Says
The Crowne Plaza hotel in Danbury says that a coming gun show at the hotel being advertised on the Web site of Big Al’s Gun Shows is not going to take place.
“It is absolutely not happening at this hotel,” Jamie Santacroce, the hotel’s controller, said by phone Tuesday afternoon.
You can still call, if only to thank them
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Oh yes, I have a few constructive comments for Big Al.
“Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?”
The story has been updated:
If you call the Crowne Plaza Danbury, it should be only to express thanks for doing the right thing; In an update a few minutes ago, The NYT blog says that they just spoke to the hotel folk, who say there’s no way they’re going to host a gun show.
“It is absolutely not happening at this hotel,” Jamie Santacroce, the hotel’s controller, said by phone Tuesday afternoon.
Good for You, Crowne Plaza Danbury.
Wow, deja vu [laughing]. Sorry, Tracy!
That’s great! In case a fuckin’ gun nut goes fuckin’ nuts all those free-pass kids can rush the fucker.
This is one gun show, out of the thousands that occur, everywhere, in the US. That there have been more than enough mass shootings here in Colorado, there will, no doubt, be a gun show, somewhere in the state. The whole gun show scene was originally intended to allow collectors, and other firearm-interested enthusiasts buy, sell and trade with each other. No FFL’s or paperwork or ‘unecessary questions’- just some guys getting together and sharing their sport and hobby. Unfortunately, like all things libertarian and unencumbered by regulation and oversight, we now have the quite possibly intractable situation of about one gun for everybody, whether they need, are capable of or really want a weapon. Eliminating the gun show, and its circus of carnage, would go a long way to clear up some of this madness. There’s a helluva lot more to do, but there has to be a start, somewhere.
The NRA shut down it’s social media. Not a single pro-gun Senator showed up on the Sunday Gabfests. A little sunshine and the Crowne Plaza caves.
It’s almost like the gun lobby/enthusiasts/sociopaths have been on top for so long that having the mass of public opinion against them (at least on assault weapons) has floored them.
It’s the moment in so many stories when the hero discovers that her greatest fear is really just an old man behind the curtain.
Well you sell-out libtards with your compromising and pragmatism can just go shove it, they’ll shut down the rolling circus of gun shows when they pry the last semi-automatic high-capacity rifle from the collective dead fingers of powerless white boys!
Seriously, powerless white boys, at least according to this Princeton prof (and no, not Michelle’s former Black Power Negro Studies Reparations professor) as Wonkette details.
Well goddurnit. It ain’t like I was goin’ up there to git me one of them full-auto rigs. Hell, them arns ain’t even legal, and I am god-fearin’, law-abidin’ American. And if that don’t beat all, I can’t even git me a semi-auto fitted up for a bayonet, neither. What in the hell is the world comin’ to, anyway?
At least someone recognizes the economic harm in bad PR. Too bad our elected officials who suck up to the gun lobby haven’t caught on.
That is so fucking sick, I don’t know what to say.
These gun freaks are completely desensitized…COMPLETELY.
Glad the hotel owners aren’t stupid.
Have You Noticed That White Dudes Keep Mass Murdering People?
Let the gun shaming begin.
Any chance that Anonymous can get us some info on the NRA?
Like maybe some stats of just how many of there members are felons and murderers?
How many of these recent mass killers have been members?
Also, can we get Max Blumenthal to go under cover at some of these gun shows and Breitbart/O’Keefe them?
How about going after the Crossroads of the West gunshow at the Del Mar Fairgrounds – multiple weekends planned in 2013. Kids under 12 are free.
http://www.crossroadsgunshows.com/
Del Mar is owned by the public and we should be able to exert the pressure required to close this operation down in San Diego.