DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF) – Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings said Wednesday that he wouldn’t be heart broken if the National Rifle Association backed out of its convention scheduled for Dallas in May.
Rawlings said the city and the NRA have a contract and the city has no plans to break it.
“We’ve got a contract with them and I don’t think the city is going to break that contract.” Mayor Rawlings said. “If they would break that contract I wouldn’t be heart broken. But we’re good. We’ve got a hand shake and we’re going to support that.”
Rawlings’ lack of enthusiasm to the association’s arrival comes a week after the Florida school massacre. The Mayor was appreciative of Mayor Pro-Tem Dwaine Caraway for coming forward this week and asking the NRA to hold the convention somewhere else.
“He was asking them nicely to kind of back away and they’re going to do what they’re going to do.”
Caraway said it would be inappropriate for the NRA to come to Dallas following the Florida school shooting and the 2016 Dallas Police ambush.
The May convention is expected bring an estimated $40 million to the city and 80,000 visitors.
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