Once the second half rolls around and everyone has been suitably refreshed at the beer concessions, the fights only pick up in frequency. Try watching an NFL game from the highest reaches of the stands, and you will inevitably see a number of incidents as the security staff, in their fluorescent jackets, scramble to break up altercations. North American sports stadiums have managed to avoid the descent into Thunderdome-style barbed-wire fencing that is common in some countries to keep opposing fans from getting at each other, but that has only meant that there remain opportunities for angry fans to get in fights. An NFL spokesman told The Washington Post that “We haven’t seen the proposed legislation but we have a policy forbidding carrying a weapon into NFL stadiums.”Īnd well they should. Considering that baseball only just instituted airport-style screening at all parks before the 2015 season, it’s no surprise that they are not keen to ban pocketknives and scissors while providing a new exception for certain guns. “Major League Baseball is committed to providing a safe environment at all our ballparks and believes that our current policy is the right one for all of our fans,” an MLB spokesman told Forbes.
The last thing America needs at this troubled point in its existence is a bunch of pistol-wielding drunks who are very unhappy with that roughing-the-passer penalty. It would also not shock you that in liberal Washington state, which legalized marijuana back when Justin Trudeau was still just a handsome backbench MP for Papineau, no one expects the bill to become law. It would not shock you to learn that the three sponsors of the bill are Republican. The proposed law would essentially ban handgun bans in any publicly-managed facility, which includes the big stadiums. These lunatics: Matt Shea, David Taylor, and Bob McCaslin, three state legislators in Washington who have brought forward a bill that would allow people with concealed-weapons permits to bring their handguns into arenas and stadiums in the state, which include CenturyLink Field (home to the Seahawks and Sounders) and Safeco Field, where the Mariners play.
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What kind of lunatic would want to introduce loaded weapons into the highly charged atmosphere of a professional sports arena? Same deal in Chicago, at the United Center: specific signage that outlawed guns.Īgain, this seems like the most obvious of precautions. The Xcel Energy Center, where the Wild play, and the Target Center, home to the Timberwolves. Was there such a demand to bring handguns into the kids’ museum that it needed a specific prohibition? “Sir, the Lego display is here and the Play-Doh is over there, and the bouncy castle is out back, and please put your Sig Sauer in this lock box before signing out your paint brushes.”īut as that trip wore on, I noticed there were no-handguns signs in a lot of places where weapons should, rather evidently, not be allowed.
But there was a children’s museum, which was notable for the signs it had in the front window: No Firearms Allowed. Manage Print Subscription / Tax ReceiptĪ couple of years ago, I was in Minnesota to cover the NHL playoffs, and took some time to walk around St.
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