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Barack Obama's rally Wednesday stopped screening people for weapons at the front gates more than an hour before the Democratic presidential candidate took the stage at Reunion Arena. The order to put down the metal detectors and stop checking purses and laptop bags came as a surprise to several Dallas police officers who said they believed it was a

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Aidenag
Feb. 22, 2008, 12:26 a.m.
This is truly disturbing. The event i went to for Obama in Seattle, did not allow purses, backpacks, laptops etc. I had to carry 8lb of camera gear on my neck the entire time.
And yet here we have them allowing them, and not only that but not even checking them??? Are they trying to get him killed?
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miklkit
Feb. 22, 2008, 5:17 p.m.
In Texas a large percentage of the population is armed. It's ok to carry guns there. And they turned off the metal detectors? JFK was shot in Dallas.