Singer won’t sing anthem for Reno team because of gun ban

[roadmaster]

RENO, Nev. (AP) — A Nevada woman has declined an invitation to sing the national anthem before a Reno Aces baseball game this summer because the minor league team won’t let her bring her gun.
Alishia Wolcott told The Reno Gazette Journal (https://www.rgj.com/story/news/2018/04/11/singer-renos-minor-league-team-no-guns-your-stadium-no-national-anthem-says-reno-singer-aces-ballpar/507417002/) that she received her concealed weapons permit earlier this year and planned to bring her 9mm for protection after being offered a chance to sing the anthem.

Wolcott said she wears the gun or keeps it in a purse because she doesn’t feel safe walking at night in downtown Reno, where the stadium is located.

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[Standing Wolf]

Her loss.

[nathanbforrest45]

Her loss.


One wonders what the comments would be if she refused to sing because there were armed police in the stadium.

[Common]

She has a right to decline for any reason she chooses. Shes not offending anyone she just made a personal choice not to perform if they put a restriction on her personal right.

Its not like she knelt and disrespected the flag and the anthem while people paid to see a football game

[Standing Wolf]

One wonders what the comments would be if she refused to sing because there were armed police in the stadium.

Her loss.

[Standing Wolf]

Refusing to perform because you can't have your gun with you is certainly a personal choice that one is entitled to make...but it's a stupid one, in my opinion. It smacks of someone trying to make a political statement, rather than being a genuine exercise of conscience. You know how I feel about the Second Amendment and the right to bear arms...but this is the sort of gesture, the sort of story, that reflects negatively on gun owners and advocates for the right to carry. There's a time to protest and make a scene about something and a time to climb down off one's high horse and show some common courtesy and good manners. This actually plays somewhat into the stereotype of the gun nut who can't be without his (or her) weapon for an hour, and I don't appreciate or approve of it one bit.

[Common]

IMHO anyone can decline to perform for any reason they choose including a restriction that they cannot carry a legally purchased gun with a legal concealed carry permit.

What was stupid was denigrating our flag and anthem supposedly to protest police and baffling paying customers who saw no correlation to denigrating the flag and anthem to police while people who disagreed with that position were forced to pay for it to go on. There were those who refused to sing the anthem to show support.