Monday, June 8, 2009
Law and Order / Legislature / Politics / Woods Gun Freaks Shoot the Messenger! Speaker Kent Williams Attacks Nattering Nabobs
Posted by Jeff Woods on Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 5:07 AM
Now, House Speaker Kent Williams is getting into the act. In a weekend speech to a roomful of real-estate salesmen, he explained how our Deadeye Dick citizen gunmen might save your life at Applebee's some night. You know, if a killer happens to walk through the door while you're enjoying your plate of Tequila Lime Chicken, they'll display their macho derring-do by hopping up with pistols blazing to take him out before he makes it past the salad bar. Pith loves the smell of gunsmoke in the evening.
"All I've seen is guns in bars, guns in bars, guns in bars. You'd think it's going to be the old wild, wild west. Everybody's going to be drunk and shooting at each other. ... (But) you're going to go to Applebee's. You're going to go to these other restaurants, and it's going to be the same as it is today. The only difference being today if some nut comes in and starts shooting the place up, one of our carry permit holders will go pull his gun out and blow him away. That maybe saves some lives."
Newspapers are ignoring this major benefit of the new law, Williams observed. The problem is, attacking the media never works. When politicians start picking on the media, it can mean only one thing: They've really stepped in it this time. (See Spiro Agnew.) Everyone knows our state legislators are a tribe of hillbilly dimwits and compulsive liars, and nobody's buying their bullshit. That much is obvious.
It's dumb strategy in another way, too. It might piss off the dreaded MSM. My jaded newspaper buddies at the legislature are slow to rile. Mainly, they just want to finish their work as fast as possible every day and make a beeline for Brandon's. But if you poke sticks at them long enough, they could retaliate. And you'll never know when they might strike back. They're sneaky like that.
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As an Elizabethton resident (in Northeast Tennessee and smack dab in the middle of you=know=who's House District), I am more concerned about armed GOPers nutjobs hatching their plans for legislation in Dino's Restaurant than I am troubled by the Speaker's imaginary threat of armed hillbilly gunmen storming the Elizzabethton Applebee's...
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Being a hillbilly myself, I resent the comparison to the Tennessee Legislature.
While, to sane people at least, it might seem foolish to whine about how mean the press is being to them, it actually fits pretty well into the whole reason why they passed the guns in bars bill. Folks who feel the need to carry a gun in a bar are suspicious (perhaps paranoid is a better word) of , well . . . anyone other than themselves. So, when their heroic representatives are willing to take the heat so they can pack heat, they really know they got themselves a good ole boy in the legislature.
It's kind of a triple crown of pandering.
I think you just coined their official slogan. We should put this on the legislative seal:
"A tribe of hillbilly dimwits and compulsive liars."
If anyone read newspapers anymore, then the counterattack from the newspaper reporters would actually be something to worry about.
Sometimes if the messenger, when expressing opinion and emotion but presenting it as "news", needs to be the target of inquiry.
Woods,
You should just move to California or NY and be with like minded people I moved to TN from NY because of people like you and I would suggest you reverse my move and go live with the rest of the nut jobs up there in welfare hell.
where are the armed gunmen in applebees? am i missing something? did someone shoot up an applebees in tennessee?
"Everyone knows that Jeff Woods is a hillbilly dimwit and compulsive liar, and nobody's buying his bullshit. That much is obvious."
There, fixed it for you Jeff.
Oh yeah. The lying, immoral, media are the last people on earth who should be spewing about ANYONE'S integrity.
That must REALLY be John Harris. His writing here is a poor here as it is on his TFA website. You'd think a VU law grad knows his punctuation, spelling and grammar.
GeoOrwell, you stated that not long ago and I asked you for a specific example...then you ran away. Can you post it or shall we continue to assume you are a liar (like your brethren at The Scene)???
"In this case, they thought a few loudmouth gun buffs spoke for the majority of Tennesseans."
220,000 and the number should double by the end of the year. Half a million is more than a "few".
More lies put forth as truth by Mr. Woods. If he worked for any reputable news outlet he'd no longer have a job.
There's a difference between running away and choosing not to joust with a fool.
Hey heres a news flash for you Jeff, if you don't like the laws and the legislators you CAN leave. No one is holding one of those big bad guns to your head and forcing you to stay. Your crybaby, commie attitude may even go over better in some of our more nazi like states of california or new york.
But we both know you won't leave,cause your making a killing with you paranoid view points.
How about you actually do your job and present a story with an unbiased view and let the reader/voter decide if something is right and wrong and let democracy sort it out? Oh wait I forgot our state senate is full of hillbillies and dimwits, which by association makes the population even stupider cause we voted them in? You and Obama are obviously our saviors because of your enlightened, highly educated, morally superior character.
Give me a break,your probally just a loser who always got a trophy for coming in 34th and thinks the world should be as smooth and level as a hockey rink.
The government knows 100% what I need in my life without ever asking about my circumstance and any decision I make without their almighty blessing is wrong.Does your mom still wipe your a$$ you toadie?
GeoOrwell says:
There's a difference between running away and choosing not to joust with a fool.
Posted On: Monday, Jun. 8 2009 @ 2:55PM
- When it some to rhetoric VS substance, you seem to choose rhetoric each and every time.
Coward.
I'm NOT the one who walks all day feeling threatned and in mortal danger if I'm not carrying. Since you do, I'd say that makes you the trembling little coward, quaking in your boots, peeing in your pants.
Besides, I know John and he doesn't need some sniveling little internet troll to carry his water.
Carrying a gun as practical, not cowardly. Running from your own assertions, on the other hand, is as cowardly as it gets.
I'm not "carrying his water", Im calling you out as a liar.
Once again, rhetoric over substance. Anything to keep from having to back up your assertion seems to be your MO.
Cowardly loser.
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Tygard to withdraw Council guns-in-restaurants bill
Monday, June 8, 2009 at 4:52pm
By Nate Rau
At-large Councilman Charlie Tygard will withdraw at the June 16 Council meeting his recently filed bill outlawing guns in Davidson County establishments which serve beer.
Tygard said he consulted the Metro Legal Department, which told him the legislation did not pass the legal litmus test. Tygard said the bill wouldn’t fly because it is pre-empted by state law established in the 1986. The law said local governments could not limit the right to bear arms, unless they already had a law on the books.
So this quote is very interesting:
But if you poke sticks at them long enough, they could retaliate. And you'll never know when they might strike back. They're sneaky like that.
Jeff would have you believe that us citizens holding our governmental employees accountable for their actions was somehow equivalent to threatening those officials, and thus a Very Bad Thing (TM). Nevermind that holding the government accountable is our right as US citizens...
On the flip side, though, Jeff feels quite comfortable making barely-veiled threats against those who dare disagree with him, just for the sake of making threats.
Double standards, anyone?
Calling somebody out? Ha! I'm sure that hurt. Especially when it's from some puerile internet troll, a man apparently afraid of his own shadow and an illiterate.
Look's like you're the liar Kev: You've obviously spent more than 20 minutes on here today.
I'm just sayin', you know.
Once again, it's pretty obvious why your side lost with retorts such as this:
"I'm just sayin', you know."
About 20 mins a day. My busy schedule wouldn't allow much more. But all the people that I talk to that read my comments here make it all worth it. Illiterate? Um, ok...Yes, I am obviously illiterate. Right now Im having my personal assistant type this for me...
"afraid of his own shadow "
- Rhetoric over substance.
"Calling somebody out? Ha! I'm sure that hurt. "
- My only intention is to counter lies and promote truth :)
And the truth is: We won. Why? Because we backed our arguments with facts while you idiots frothed at the mouth and made up a bunch of lies.
Aaron, you live in Tennessee because you are trash and lack the sophistication, intelligence and class and money to live in New York. And by the way, New York is one of the wealthiest cities in the world, so can it with your stupid welfare B.S. Every time you write on these blogs you smear your ignorant excrement all over these pages. There is a reason that cities like New York, San Fransisco, Vancouver B.C. Connecticut, Mass. etc. are so expensive and that you can buy a 10 bedroom log cabin with a 20 acres around it for $100,000.00 in Tennessee. Because no one wants to live in that god forsaken hell hole and your not helping real estate prices get any better!
I actually think the laws are pretty good. When we consider that most people who fall victim to handgun slayings know their assailants we can rest easy knowing that this law is doing nothing but helping rid America of a bunch of poorly educated, white trash, ignorant scumbags that do nothing but pollute the world with their very existence. I say let them blow each others brains out and send them all on to hell well where they really belong. Jesus is calling you all home to that great trailer park in the ground Tennessee.!
