More than 22,000 people have
signed a petition calling for Americans to be allowed to carry firearms
at the Republican National Convention -- because the ban puts lives at
risk.
Guns are not allowed inside the Quicken Loans Arena in
Cleveland, where the event -- which could descend into a heated battle
for the party presidential ticket -- is taking place in July.The petition went up on the Change.org website and by Saturday had been signed by 22,633 supporters in just a few days, with numbers rising fast.
"Cleveland, Ohio is
consistently ranked one of the top 10 most dangerous cities in America,"
says the petition, which among others is addressed to the Republican
presidential frontrunner Donald Trump and his rivals Ted Cruz and John
Kasich.
"By forcing attendees
to leave 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."
In the
event of an attack on the venue people there "will be sitting ducks,"
raising the specter 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.
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