Holding their breath until they turn blue
The Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Association has told the city of Murfreesboro If guns are allowed in Murfreesboro’s parks, the city can expect to lose the Spring Fling. This event apparently brings Murfreesboro about $3.4M. Says Bernard Childress, head of the TSSAA:
“This is a zero-tolerance issue — period,” Childress said. “We don’t have a written policy. But if anyone had a gun where our kids are, we wouldn’t be there. There is no way possible that we’d allow a gun in one of our events.
Oh teh noes. Kids will be around lawful gun owners. It’s so important we didn’t even write it down.
Here’s a link to TSSAA’s sponsors.
July 1st, 2009 at 9:39 am
I find a small irony here, seeing as Murfreesboro is the home of the super duper evil machine gun sniper rifle that can shoot down 747s.
July 1st, 2009 at 10:17 am
I’ll bet they don’t have any problem with police being around their kids. Police guns don’t have the evil mind control rays, apparently.
July 1st, 2009 at 10:21 am
I was wondering when the TSSAA’ implemented such strict security procedures as to strip search everyone or make them go through a metal detector.
About the only practical way to insure “There is no way possible that we’d allow a gun in one of our events.”
July 1st, 2009 at 10:38 am
Seems typical politics. I would agree that losing 3.4 million is a bad idea and that that greater good may overweigh the good of gunowners carry in the park. Certainly that would not be unreasonable calculation for the council.
The only way to beat it is to provide a substitution that would provide similar money to the city.
Of course I do not like the reaction of TSSA but people do not always have to agree with me.
July 1st, 2009 at 10:50 am
I guess that means that cops will not be allowed to attend any of their events either?
July 1st, 2009 at 11:24 am
I find it too ironic that the first sponsor on their page is the USMC.
July 1st, 2009 at 11:38 am
I’m sure the TSAA has already lined up an alternate location, complete with all of the housing and secondary activity, and none of their participants wil be inconvenienced in any way…
July 1st, 2009 at 3:00 pm
An unwritten zero tolerance policy. BWAHAHA!
“Break this unwritten rule just once and you’re banned for life.”
That’s some real nice policy-makin’ there, TSSAA.
July 1st, 2009 at 3:57 pm
Came here to say something, but Medicman beat me to it.
It’s zero-tolerance, so that means nothing no one by no how for no way. So, no cops either.
Note to self… avoid this “gun free zone” as we all know what that really means.
July 1st, 2009 at 4:45 pm
How many of these participants meet the demographic criteria of ‘disadvantaged urban youth’?
…just askin’…
How dissimilar a cohort is this from the attendees of a ‘gun violence prevention’ meetup and concert which ended badly, in recent memory?
Regards,
Rabbit.
July 1st, 2009 at 8:02 pm
Aside from the logical disconnect of police officers being at the events, and not having this supposed rule written down, this particular organization saying it will not bring the money to the city is no different than us saying we will not support restaurants that post firearms-prohibited signs.
Or, rather, once you take blatant intolerance and bigotry out of the equation, those two things are more-or-less equivalent…
July 2nd, 2009 at 1:56 am
I must not have bought enough of the right toys as the same time or something, they haven’t talked to me or any of my friends here in Houston yet.
July 2nd, 2009 at 8:14 am
“But if anyone had a gun where our kids are, we wouldn’t be there.”
Once more, Marxist opposition to private gun ownership masquerades as opposition to guns per se. Funny how that opposition to guns evaporates when it comes to the guns of government agents. So it’s not really about guns, is it?