Friday, February 20, 2009
Hargrove Tennessee House Might Be As Smart As Wyatt Earp
Posted by Brantley Hargrove on Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 12:30 PM
If you will recall, Wyatt Earp instituted statutes similar to this--no six-shooters in saloons, maybe even in the city limits. Violating this law back then would either A) Get you shot, or B) Get you pistol whipped. I doubt Tennessee cops are going to start beating the morons who carry guns with them to restaurants or bars about the head and neck with the barrels of their revolvers, but maybe there'll be a fat ticket involved?!
The intent of the bill is to keep concealed carriers out of bars period, but what makes a bar anyway? When you get down to it, this a crazy-ass phenomenon. In what civilized society do you carry a firearm into a restaurant?
Whenever I head to my favorite beer joint, I've never really considered the possibility that some simian nearby might actually be carrying. Is this what we want? The cross-section of fools who can sneak beneath the low bar for a concealed carry permit, knocking back a bottle or two in a restaurant and packing heat?
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"sneak beneath the low bar for a CC permit"? Wow. So much for "shall not be infringed"...
But I guess the sooner we get this annoying little individual freedom taken care of, we can move on to the problems of the rest of the Bill of Rights huh?
You know, requiring people to ask government permission and pay a fee to be given permission to speak their minds or publish opinions. Then adding every delay and restriction you can think of, making it as difficult and expensive as possible to exercise our rights, coming up with endless lists of exceptions where those rights are void, having the government withdraw those rights at any time...
Yep if we could just get rid of anyone who wishes to be able to defend himself, or speak his mind, or live free from government harassment and intimidation, we'd finally be "civilized" enough peons to do as we're told, pay any tax we're ordered to, and bleed quietly when attacked by every thug the Anointed Ones can empower.
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This is why I carry a firearm into restaurants
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C04E3D8113BF934A25753C1A967958260&sec=travel&spon=&pagewanted=all
I would call you a liberal socialist idiot, but I doubt it would do any good. Maybe when they are done with this little annoying "freedom" they can come after freedom of press and put you out of business as well.
Oh I agree man.....my theory is that all the random crime that plagues our society is incapable of entering into / occurring in some establishments.
There is some sort of force field that stops criminals from doing citizens harm in restaurants, churches, schools, city parks, state parks, florists etc etc. Don't you agree?
You have to be one of the most naive people I have ever head of. Wake up dude.....we by no means live in a civilized society. Take a gander at News Channel 5 one night and you'll see that.
Criminals/thugs etc ignore laws, right? Therefore, criminals that want to rape, rob, pillage and plunder will do so at will...laws be damned.....and will do so at whatever location/setting they deem target rich.
There is no civilized society; only criminals and thugs who want what you have, up to and including your life.
We have a right to protect ourselves just like you have a right to babble nonsense.
Threaten one and they are all at risk.
I could not have said it better myself...
"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed"
I am going to assume that the next steps to come.. some of which have been rumored to have been taken will be to take away our freedom of speech or shall I say our freedom of "opinion"
Obviously only one opinion seems to count now.
Brad you are absolutely right if you can babble we can protect ourselves and at any hour of the day. Just because its 11pm does not mean some magical power came across the thugs and turned them into some kind of angels. Trust me I know I see them after hours.
Maybe when they take away a freedom that you hold dear you will start to see things a little differently. Until then go back and read your Constitution, your Ammendments in particular.
who the hell in TN allows idiots like this to blog? Im not even talking about the content (which is an unsupported rant, not based on any research or facts,) but the writing structure and immature rhetoric reminds me of a middle school kid who was allowed on moms computer.
I thought Northerners were crazy. This guy gives TN a bad name.
The problem with your "civilized society" question is that we don't live in one. There have been and always will be those who hurt and kill to get what they want and couldn't care less about laws or norms that say otherwise. So that my friend is why some people don't care to be defenseless and don't much care for the opinions of folks who want to take away that right either.
Too right, Brantley. Who the hell do those low-brow gun owning rednecks think they are, anyway? Where do they get off thinking they have the right to carry those things just anywhere they choose? They're getting as bad as those damn uppity n**gers, wanting to eat with the white people.
Bigot. Ignorant bigot, since HCP folks are (much) more law-abiding than both the police and our state legislature.
Hargrove and Woods are just taking turns trying to antagonize you guys with their over the top ranting.
Just consider the source and take comfort in the fact that, as liberals, neither one of them is physically capable of ever being a legitimate authority on any subject whatsoever.
Please show some compassion here...it is all those insecure and probably sexually represssed men in Tennessee who are overly attached to phallus symbols need these types of reassurance offered by the Dodge City bill now (or again) before the Tennessee General Assembly.
