Recently, we cats were in our local grocery store and saw a fellow shopper openly carrying a gun. Determining that he was not law enforcement, we couldn't wait to get out of there. What if he found a price that was not to his liking? What if somebody accidentally bumped his cart? Bullets could fly.
Of course, we later wrote to the grocery chain in question, asking why guns would be necessary in their store aisles. You can just imagine how inadequate their response was.
So, on the heels of that experience, we are interested to note that Republicans are signing petitions to open-carry at the GOP convention in July. The Quicken Loans Arena has a policy against weapons, and GOP sympathizers are not happy about it. It makes them "sitting ducks, utterly helpless against evil-doers and criminals," one petitioner averred.
Really? We cats think that this petitioner is paranoid about black people and liberals — neither of whom are known as gun-toting constituencies, and one of whom is better known for getting shot while unarmed than for wielding weaponry against an innocent populace. But, anyway.
If the GOP conventioneers insist on open-carrying in Cleveland, then we cats hope that every network refuses to broadcast live from the arena. Just a podium cam and studio commentators should suffice — otherwise, reporters could get killed. (In fact, Megyn Kelly could be the first journalist shot at the RNC.)
Meanwhile, what is there for us Democratic cats to complain about? Delegates with AK-47s cheering on Donald Trump? What a great visual for suburban moms and millennial voters! We cats PURR.
UPDATE: It turns out that the petition was started by an anti-gun activist who claims he was making a point, not a joke. Just goes to show you: You never know if what you're looking at on the Interwebs is real. But we cats want to assure you that we are cats and we really do write this blog!
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