Reply #184: Not to say this wasn't necessarily boneheadded but there is one important fact

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The SS is there to guard Obama and not the crowd. Apparently they stopped looking for guns after a ton of people had arrived. Thus it would have been hard anybody who intended harm to get to the front and sit down without being noticed as they would have had to get somebody to give up their seat or just push them out of the way.

I went to a Clinton event a few months ago (now proud Obama supporter) and I was within 10 feet of her for a good half hour. Never had a search or anything. But the eyes of the SS were on everybody and I am confident that if anybody had reached for a weapon or whatever, their actions or face would have betrayed their intentions before they could do anything.