The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Ownership is focusing its resources to hold on to what it has. Not much focus on advancing to other areas. I mean, their Nashville division was hard at work on the guns in bars bill. Oh, wait. They don’t have one.
SoBe yammers on about those darn ‘anti-choicers’ wanting to impose their will on others all the time. Which is funny, because the new guns in bars bill allows restaurants the opportunity to make a choice. She only wants them to make the choices she’s cool with though. She’s none too keen on the bill that gives restaurateurs a choice to allow the lawful carry of concealed weapons on their property instead of the state dictating what otherwise lawful activities can occur on private property. I thought ‘anti-choice’ was bad?
Yesterday, we noted how they destroyed property and demonstrated their inability to spell. Now, they’re vandalizing signs in Illinois too.
And, of course, now that Tennessee has passed the guns in restaurants bills, the idiots have come out:
I can’t wait til the first person gets murdered by this. Maybe then all these hillbillies will realize how dumb this is. I know I will donate heavily to anyone who opposes Doug Jackson and Stacy Campfield next election.
More samples there.
Voting with Dollars. Cue accusations of intimidation.
From this article:
This is not a right-to-bear arms issue. It’s about creating a problem for businesses when there was not one before
The only problem is that you have to put up a sign to prohibit it. You’ve been given a choice instead of the state dictating what you can and cannot do.
I suppose that someone should start a list of restaurants that will prohibit the lawful carrying of arms at their establishment. That way, you don’t waste your time or money going there and then noticing their sign:
Sunset Grill – source. Note to the owner: your current sign does not abide by Tennessee Code Annotated.
Rooster’s Bar and Grill – source.
Jimmy’s Original Southern Pub is a maybe – source.
More as I get them. Feel free to send me more with an appropriate cite. Or leave them in comments.
Most of the restrictions we bear on the rights we enjoy follow this model. Slander, libel, incitement to violence, etc. are all illegal and represent an abuse of a right, but there is no physical mechanism to prevent a person from commiting such an abuse. Similar rules exist for firearms and weapons, and basically fall under the idea that the brandishment or use of a weapon except in defense of self or others is the abuse of the right, and a person found guilty of such an action will suffer the consequences.
Meanwhile, Nashville is looking to use some oddity in the liquor laws to prohibit carrying arms in bars there. The proposed ordinance can be found here.
Dan Seitz in a bit called 7 Ridiculously Over-The-Top Modifications to Deadly Weapons:
It appears that the AR-15 is kind of the gun-dweeb’s version of Linux: All kinds of modifications can be made to it, but most of them make about as much sense as tying your dick to a roller skate. The AR-15 also happens to be a semi-automatic rifle, which, by the way, is what we invented specifically so we wouldn’t have to use crossbows any more.
As a gun dweeb, I concur.
Michael Bane reports that La Quinta Inn will whack your internet connection if you read gun blogs.
Tam on TN’s guns in bars bill:
Now Tennesseans can look forward to the same kind of blood-soaked carnage I have to face every time I go to the Broad Ripple Brew Pub. Which is to say “none at all”. (And Indiana doesn’t even care if you tip back a few wet ones while you’re packing, so long as you don’t go ventilating passersby with your hogleg.)
Just like the other 40 or states that have no such prohibition.
Remember last month we talked about the student who couldn’t start a chapter of SCCC on her campus? Well, the story is making the news now.
At the Commercial Squeal: With the guns-in-restaurants bill about to become law, will you look for restaurants that don’t allow guns?
R. Neal ponders why the 40 day wait for guns in restaurants. No, not biblical or due to Bastille Day. It’s in the constitution.
The style of the laws of this state shall be, “Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Tennessee.” No law of a general nature shall take effect until forty days after its passage unless the same or the caption thereof shall state that the public welfare requires that it should take effect sooner.
Oddly, the bill stipulates June 1 and it is captioned that the public welfare requires it. But I suppose the veto complicated that. Anyway, I think one would have a defense from prosecution but I’d err on the side of not going to jail. So, I’d wait the 40 days if I were you.
ETA: But it does give business owners who choose to do so ample time to put up signs to prohibit carrying that comply with Tennessee law.
As of today, Bill Hobbs is no longer the Communications Director at the Tennessee Republican Party new party chairman Chris Devaney tells Post Politics.
Dread asserts that according to Tennessee Codes Annotated section 57-5-106(a) that Metro Nashville can pass an ordinance instructing its Beer Board not to grant licenses to establishments that serve beer and allow guns. Establishments serving only wine and/or liquor would be safe because they are state regulated.
Sounds like a good way to get the state involved in preempting beer regulations.
The TN Senate voted to override the Governor’s Veto by 21-9. The governor can’t fulfill his promise to sign the bill so the legislature did it for him.
A civil rights victory.
Jackson read a list of lots of police chiefs who support the bill. Odd. The governor and the press kept telling us they oppose it? Jackson did a good job but yammered for too long.
Goes into effect July 14.
Update: ACK has more.
On a personal note, I’d like to say to Jimmy Naifeh: haha!
A look at who voted for and against. One republican voted no. I am happy to report that my rep, Joe McCord, unstupided himself and voted for the override after opposing the original bill.
Via MKS.
In anticipation of today’s override comes a reminder, don’t break the law. An email received from NRA today:
We’ve heard some chatter with TN bloggers that they want to go out to restaurants tonight and carry. We just want to make sure that no violates the law. There is language in the bill that states the law doesn’t go into effect until 40 days after it is overridden. Could you help us get the word out?
Yeah, the bill says June 1. But better to err on the side of not being arrested.
I’m told it starts in about 30 minutes. I thought it was to start 30 minutes ago. Keep your eyes peeled.
It is legally permissible for police to zap a suspect with a Taser to obtain a DNA sample, as long as it’s not done “maliciously, or to an excessive extent, or with resulting injury,” a county judge has ruled in the first case of its kind in New York State, and possibly the nation.
I have always been of the opinion that the only time for using a Taser is when deadly force is justified.
A bear knocked in a woman’s front door and chased her through her house. I didn’t realize bears were hanging around in West Knoxville.
MSNBC notes all the cool gizmos to make guns idiot-proof, none of which will make a difference and are inferior to the four rules of firearm safety.
Via Tam, who quips:
all the gadgets and gizmos in the world won’t keep a dumbass from shooting himself in the foot, as long as he’s the dumbass with the key to the internal lock and the fingerprint reader recognizes him as an authorized dumbass.
Seen at Breda’s:
Kikkerland donates 5% of proceeds of each bag to the Brady Campaign to end gun violence (www.bradycampaign.org)
Irony is that the bag they sell is shaped like a gun.
From ar15.com, an ad for a gun store in Pennsylvania:
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I saw that and realized that Guav, regular reader and commenter here, had created that image a bit back because the press kept reporting some shooter used an AK-15, which doesn’t exist (layers of editorial oversight indeed). So Guav photoshopped one up.
One wonders how that happens? The current guess is the shop owner paid a graphics guy for an ad. Only the shop owner misspelled AR-15 or has bad handwriting and his R looks like a K. So, the ad or graphics guy Googled up the wrong thing.
Still, funny. A couple of guys from ar15.com are going to go the shop and ask about it. Not just to be difficult but because the shop has a good deal on 5.56 ammo.
New Hampshire set to become sixth state to butt out of contracts between two people whose genitalia aren’t different.
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