Friday, June 5, 2009
Legislature / Politics / Woods Sen. Mae Beavers Tells Feds: 'Get Out of Our Business'
Posted by Jeff Woods on Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 10:17 AM
All we have to do is stamp "Made in Tennessee" on our weaponry and--bam!--the feds lose all jurisdiction. Simple as that. Let Pith say here and now that it's about time. The Senate voted 21-7 this week to join the House in adopting this bill, and it's on its way to the governor now for his signature. Here's Beavers:
"Be it the federal government mandating changes in order for states to receive federal funds or the federal government telling us how to regulate commerce contained completely within this state - enough is enough. Our founders fought too hard to ensure states' sovereignty and I am sick and tired of activist federal officials and judges sticking their noses where they don't belong."
Certain liberal senators had a little problem, namely that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms has no intention of recognizing this new state law. That means if our citizens obey it, ATF agents in blue windbreakers one day will break down their doors and take them away to jail. Luckily, Beavers and her conservative colleagues don't give a shit about that. Leave it to Sen. Jim Kyle to throw a wet blanket over the celebration for passage of this wonderful bill:
"This is another one of a series of bills brought to us by firearms industry and firearms advocates. At a time when we struggle to find money to care for the mentally retarded and mentally ill, we continue to spend time on these kinds of issues."
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Is Mae Beavers really so stupid to argue that if guns are manufactured in Tennessee, this represents "commerce completely contained within this state" — as if these guns could not be sold beyond the borders of Tennessee?
BTW, how many gun manufacturers do we have in TN?
This woman is as stupid as her picture suggests.
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Barrett Firearms has a pretty big facility in Murfreesboro. There may be others, but that's the only TN gun manufacturer I know of. Now the question is: what if I fire my Tennessee-made gun in Tennessee, but I shoot something across the state line? These pinheads could spend at least a couple of days debating that one while real issues continue to go unresolved.
It's not even my district, but whoever runs against Mae Beavers next time can count on a contribution from me.
Okay, this is confusing. Could we pass some laws exempting food manufactured in TN excempt from FDA regulations? I'm not kidding. I want my Goo-Goo clusters to be dusted with cocaine and include lucky rat's foot keychain prizes.
Why, yes, holy smokes this would be a really good benefit for Ronnie Barrett and the Barrett Firearms Manufacturing Corp of Murfreesboro, maker of the Barrett 50-caliber machine gun (choice of Mexican drug traffickers everywhere!).
By the way, isn't Ronnie Barrett shacking up with Donna Rowland, the state representative from Murfreesboro and close friend of Mae Beavers?
What a coincidence?
Yeah so here is the thing... like it or not the feds have no right to regulate what commerce happens INSIDE the state that could and has in Cali marijuana and other things firearms is just one thing that the government has over and unnecessarily regulated that we are taking back and no the ATF wont bust in your door Jeff... State law still prohibits evil machine guns and other things that make you pee their pants when you think about them.
@aaron:
I pretty sure Jeff pees his pants when he sees his own shadow. It's a liberal thing, we wouldn't understand.
BTW Jeff, has anyone ever told you that you are an idiot?
What everyone fails to see is that this piece of legislation is designed to force the Supreme Court to re-examine interstate commerce and the commerce clause (which is the reason offered by the federal government as to why they can place restrictions on pretty much anything they want)
Firearms made in Tennessee, sold in Tennessee, and used in Tennessee should be governed by Tennessee laws - period.
Way to go Mae - whether you like her or not, you cant say she doesnt stick by her principles.
Scotty, I see your comments on several Pith posts and I must say your keyboard courage to insult and denigrate people is an inspiration to 11 year olds and poorly educated rednecks everywhere.
"What everyone fails to see is that this piece of legislation is designed to force the Supreme Court to re-examine interstate commerce and the commerce clause (which is the reason offered by the federal government as to why they can place restrictions on pretty much anything they want)"
Yep - long ago the excuse was dreamed up by activist judges to allow the government to do all sorts of things under the notion that regulating interstate commerce actually meant regulating anything on earth that the government claims "could have an effect" on interstate commerce.
Which, of course, isn't what the Constitution actually says and was most certainly NOT what those who ratifed it understood it to mean.
And yeah, many of the founders, Mae dear, were deeply suspicious of both pure democracy and states rights, which is why we have a federal government in the first place. But yap, yap, yap on in ignorant bliss, please.
And you all who don't know Jeff are pretty funny in your characterization of him as a quivering weenie.
And Ashley, great idea re: getting rid of FDA regs too. And how about any environmental disaster than happens only in Tennessee should be cleaned up by only Tennessee. Oh, right, it's not getting cleaned up at all.
@taterman
It would seem you should practice what you preach about hurling insults. And as for being a redneck, I've never called a potato a tater.
Now hurry back to the playground taterboy, the adults are having a discussion.
You know, the problem with the Second Amendment is the commas. "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." Couldn't it be read that one must be in the militia in order to bear arms? I can't remember what Supreme Court case read the passage as two separate clauses, I think it happened pretty recently.
Sorry for going all language nerd on this. STUPID CONSTITUTION didn't take into account the evolution of grammatical conventions!
"And yeah, many of the founders, Mae dear, were deeply suspicious of both pure democracy and states rights, which is why we have a federal government in the first place. But yap, yap, yap on in ignorant bliss, please."
Actually what the founders were most suspicious of was an overly powerfull central government. That's why they put the 10th Amendment in the Constitution.
"Couldn't it be read that one must be in the militia in order to bear arms?"
No, because that's not what it says.
It specifically says the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
It doesn't say right of the miltia" or "right of people in the milita".
That reading totally disregards the first thirteen words of the Amendment. And the commas, dude. I can see how it could be interpreted both ways, I really can. All they needed was a parenthetical aside about the purpose of the militia and a good old-fashioned conjunction and whambampresto, obfuscation! I am smarter than all of the founding fathers. What with my being a Latina woman and all.
Obfuscation disappeared I mean. I have shamed all Latina women with my eager typing.
Leave it to the liberal pinheads to bitch about responsible citizens the right to bear arms. We need some our representatives to stick up for us. We need some protection from the Feds. As a former Marine, I do not trust our Government buddy boy. Maybe you do. In God I trust, In my weapon, I trust more - pinhead...
I really think all this legislative stuff is script writers preparing for the funniest, long running soap ever! It could not be crazier if it were fiction. Really, just look at the names: Ronnie, Mae and Donna. Those are true Southern names from Lebanon and Murfreesboro. And don't go off on me: I'm originally from Mississippi. This is the farthest North I or any of my ancestors have ever lived.
"That reading totally disregards the first thirteen words of the Amendment. And the commas, dude. I can see how it could be interpreted both ways, I really can."
The first part of the sentence before the comma is a dependent clause. The second part of the sentence is an idependent clause.
Nothing in an independent clause is dependent on anything in a dependent clause.
It's as simple as that.
Sometimes, it is worth reading something instead of describing it.
"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."
Let's read another section, shall we?
"The Congress shall have the Power . . . To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes;"
The Constitution does not prohibit regulation of commerce. More to the point, guns manufactured in Tennessee are going to find their way into interstate commerce. At least the manufacturers hope so anyway. Ask the guy making the sniper rifles in Murfreesboro.
Senator Beavers ought to know something about the Constitution. She took an oath to uphold it. So, either she has an IQ that does not quite come up to the level of a slice of cheese, or she has little regard for her oaths when it comes to an opportunity to pander. Neither is something of which she should be proud.
Folks, you can make any kind of claim you wish, but our national legislature is turning us over to Obama's communist regime.
It has been claimed he was investigated on his legal eligibility for the POTUS office and was found eligible.
How in the cornbread hell can someone with a foreign father be declared legally eligible? I asked the senator why they didn't issue this data to the public, and got no answer.
Now, what happens when Obama puts us deep enough in debt and declares a state of emergency and proceeds to take over as dictator.
And what happens when his ineligibility is brought forth?
Folks, you ain't seen nothing yet. I feel sorry for our grandchildren, even into our great grandchildren.
