[Malum Prohibitum]

http://www.globegazette.com/articles/20 ... 222322.txt

Mason City VFW members are refusing to march in the Clear Lake Fourth of July parade Wednesday because they are not being allowed to fire their rifles.

The Secret Service, in Clear Lake to provide protection for former president Bill Clinton and his wife, presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, will not allow firearms in the parade, said Jim Kantaris, quartermaster of VFW Post 733 in Mason City . . .

 

[adcurt]

Nothing new here. They are afraid of their fellow citizens and what someone might do with a weapon in range of them.

Maybe Randy Weaver could get a float too? I'd pay for that picture.

 

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[S&W 40]

I almost answered yes, then realized you did not mean Hillary Swank.

 

[wsweeks2]

If these guys have been doing this year after year, it is a tradition and if the USSS thinks this poses a threat to either of them, we have bigger problems.