I hate it when events send me ’round the bend into crazy paranoia, but this feels so wrong to me.

Police concerned about order to stop weapons screening at Obama rally

DALLAS — Security details at 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 lapse in security….

They said it seemed like a “friendly crowd”, so everything must be okay, right? What could go wrong in Texas?