Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Crazy Crap / Hicks From the Sticks / Kotz / Law and Order / Legislature / Politics What? We've Overtaken Texas in Stupidity?
Posted by Pete Kotz on Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 5:57 AM
"Finally! We don't suck as bad as another state. Tennessee legislators have overturned a veto by the Governor to allow guns in bars. Yep. Guns in bars. It is good to know that there are dumber hillbillies in Tennessee than in Texas."
Okay, so you knew it would come to this. In the civilized world -- which constitutes pretty much everywhere but the legislature -- people are going to find this law a little bit strange (in kind of a My Name is Earl meets Texas Chainsaw Massacre way). So let the games begin, Tennessee. Our good friends on Capitol Hill have opened shop for a fresh new round of national ridicule.
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The ones looking stupid are you Scene twits who continue to emit shrill squeals about this issue.
Time to move on and focus your microscopic minds on something else.
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The Texas Twit is just following Kotzie's lead in ignoring the over 35 other states with the same law. Yep. Tennessee is truly leading edge on the issue.
You wish, Gilbert Martin.
This red-state General Assembly will not be able to live down the dumber-than-dirt reputation it is giving the Volunteer State.
Yes, we'll take the booth with the Kevlar table cloth, please. And do you have a safe room where unarmed customers can flee when Festus decides to fill the air with flying lead because somebody dissed his manhood? What about bullet-proof sneeze guards? Maw maw got winged at the salad bar the last time we went out to eat.
Yes, I will now hesitate to go to bars, where I used to feel perfectly comfortable and even happy to spend hours chatting with my buddies. A highly trained citizen gunman deciding that the cell phone in a black man's hand is actually a gun and deciding to open fire is really too much. And now Nashville can't even enact its own ban??????????? WTF. What are these people so scared of that they feel terrified to go unarmed into Blackstones?
More of the same...How have we "overtaken" TX for simply passing the same law they have? Plus the 35 other states...
Can anyone point out the state where its been a problem? I've asked the antis about a millions times and they only respond with the same type of baseless rhetoric contained in these retarded articles.
Anyone? Can you post a link?
Thanks.
"You wish, Gilbert Martin.
This red-state General Assembly will not be able to live down the dumber-than-dirt reputation it is giving the Volunteer State."
Quite wasting my time addressing me with any sort of declarative statement.
You are physiologically incapable of possessing the requisite cognitive capacity to be wiser than me on any issue on earth.
But don't feel like the Lone Ranger. The same is true for every other liberal alive on the planet.
stellabardo,
You do realize that criminals carry guns and don't care about the law, yes? You're feeling safe was simply self delusion. This law exists in 35+ other states and isn't a problem. You are irrational due to your conditioning to fear guns as opposed to criminals WITH guns. And why should Nashville be allowed to break the law? Are you some kind of fascist?
And we arent' "terrified". We are simply prepared. Smart people like to be prepared.
Kevin, here we go again. I've never been afraid for my life going to any kind of restaurant. If I perceived a place was scary, I simply wouldn't go to that establishment. You, and a lot of your compatriots, actually sound quite paranoid. That's your problem. Yes, you are probably correct. I doubt there is a major problem with permit holders losing their cool and firing at unarmed patrons. That is partially because bars and restaurants don't have a major crime problem, at least ones that aren't strip clubs. I don't hear of Chili's being frequented by armed thugs.
And unfortunately for your side, more often than not, when a citizen with a gun attempts to take matters into his own hand, tragedy ensues. You read about it time and time again. In fact, statistics show having a gun in the home makes you MORE likely, not LESS, of dying via homicide. Since you love links, here you go: http://aje.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/160/10/929
But hey, if it makes you feel more safe and manly to spend your life walking around strapped, I'm happy for you.
I guess we suck as bad as 36 other states that have allowed this very thing for a long time before we thought about it.... I hate the Media yes scene included you guys are seriously mentally ill.
"You, and a lot of your compatriots, actually sound quite paranoid. That's your problem."
No, your problem is in mistakenly thinking that it is any of your business whether anyone else chooses to carry a gun or why they choose to do it.
It isn't any of your business.
It's as simple as that.
"No, your problem is in mistakenly thinking that it is any of your business whether anyone else chooses to carry a gun or why they choose to do it."
You're right and wrong Gilbert. You have a "right to bear arms." I have a right to be concerned about the safety of my family, as does the government. And stats don't lie, Gilbert. The more people with guns, the less safe any establishment is. Unfortunately, you gun enthusiasts don't make me feel safer and there's not a lot you can say to change my mind.
"And stats don't lie, Gilbert. The more people with guns, the less safe any establishment is."
Really.
And whose "stats" would that be?
Gun control advocates have a long history of concocting phony "studies".
Some of them bogusly count suicides to claim that homes with guns are "less safe" in an attempt to make people think it is futile to keep a gun for self defense.
Others count teenage gang bangers shooting each other in drive-by shootings to make claims about the number of "children" being killed by guns.
Most that I've seen, Gilbert, separate suicide from homicide. But the data seems pretty consistent: where there's guns, death is more likely to follow. And it's not normally "bad guys" who do the dying. And since the title of this article mentions Texas, do some research on Texas. They are one of the more violent states in the union despite (and possibly because of) their liberal gun laws and use of the death penalty.
