The Rude Pundit: Our Guns Are Way More Important Than Your Disasters

While a good chunk of Nashville, which, in addition to being Music City, is also the capital of Tennessee, was underwater this week, the legislature kept at its job of making the Volunteer State safer for drunks. Yes, as residents of middle Tennessee were driving boats around the streets of their neighborhoods, wondering how much FEMA was gonna come through for the many homeowners without flood insurance, the state House passed a bill that had been previously passed by the Senate, both by veto-proof majorities, which allows people with carry permits to bring their guns into anywhere that lets you drink, and "That includes restaurants, nightclubs, honky-tonks, country clubs and any other place with an alcohol license, including places such as the Tennessee Aquarium in Chattanooga." Honky-tonks and aquariums? Yippee-ki-yay, motherfucker, indeed.

Down in Louisiana, as the slick diarrhea of oil crept its way towards the outer islands and began its long wreckage of the seafood industry there, the state House debated and voted on a number of gun measures. The vote was 96-1 to allow people with concealed carry permits to do so within 1000 feet of a school. School campuses remain gun-free, so far. But, with the proper permit, you can walk around the sidewalk outside a school with a gun in your pants. However, a vague modicum of sanity prevailed and the bill that would allow concealed weapons in churches got a majority, but not the necessary two-thirds needed to pass. Don't worry. You can still stalk around outside a church with your sidearm.

In Washington, D.C., senators who have no problem with the government spying on citizens without a warrant or holding people without charge for years, even torturing them for information, finally drew a line in the sand. They refused to budge on the idea that people on the government's terror watch list should be banned from buying guns, and they told this to Mike Bloomberg, mayor of the city that almost got car bombed. For Susan Collins, the Elmer Fudd of the Maine congressional delegation, it comes down to the possibility that someone could be on the list who's not a terrorist. Lindsey Graham, needing to appear butch after getting teabagged in his home state recently, said that it's just a slippery slope to banning handguns. In other words, you can stop someone from flying if they're on a list, but not from buying a gun.

Back in Tennessee, Joe McCord, a Republican from Maryville, which is as conservative district as you could imagine, went on a tear about what really is going on with the guns-in-bars law: "Essentially, the NRA is saying to us, if you don’t support and vote for carrying guns in bars, we will not endorse you and in fact will oppose you. This line of reasoning is just bordering on lunacy."

By the way, McCord has an "A" rating from the NRA. But, still, he said, "No one’s right all the time. The NRA is not right here, and we’re not standing up to them. It makes me wonder, what line will we not cross for the NRA? At what point do we say, this is too much?"

Oh, and, by the way again, before you start thinking that this is some portrait in courage, of a brave legislator standing up to the monolith that is the National Rifle Association, he's not running for re-election, which he admits has given him a bit of freedom: "I’m not running again. You can tell because I’m sitting here criticizing the NRA."

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Anyone who thinks that passing some stupid gun law when their state is drowning is a good thing is unbelievably stupid.

around children, inebriates, students, or anywhere else such "Big Men" feel the need to "carry..."

:rofl:

What happened?

I'm a packin' and I'm a wackin'

or rocket launcher on their person at all times.

Isn't that the same kind of "logic" that has men screwing ducks as the 'inevitable result' of repealing DOMA?

25 Years Later, "Gun Town USA" Continues to Maintains Exceptionally Low Crime Stats
Do you know that if you live in the small town of Kennesaw, Georgia, you are required to have and maintain a firearm?

On May 1, 1982, a new ordinance was passed by the city council of Kennesaw. This law ( Sec. 34-1 Heads of households to maintain firearms) made it mandatory for each household to own and maintain a gun, as well as
ammunition. Not only was the ordinance passed by city council, it was a unanimous decision. The ordinance states the gun law is needed "In order to provide for the emergency management of the City, and further in order to provide for and protect the safety, security and general welfare of the city and its inhabitants, every head of household residing in the City limits is required to maintain a firearm, together with ammunition therefore." Of course, exclusions were made to convicted felons, people with religious objections, and people with disabilities.

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/738709/firearm_ownership_is_mandatory_for.html?cat=17

Where you have visited is totally irrelevant. But the gun requirement was put forth. My comment was not so far from reality.

.. only done as a political stunt in response to the village of Morton Grove, IL's gun ban.

Yeah, that's reeeeeeal close to forcing every resident to carry a handgun at all times.

:crazy: :crazy: :crazy:

Ever see "Hot Fuzz"?

Somehow, carrying EVERYWHERE has become some sort of all out goal by these folks, and if you oppose this then you "are trying to take our guns away". Nutcases.

if the gun manufacturers suddenly, somehow, went bankrupt and shut down, and the only guns available were from foreign corporations, the NRA would dry up and blow away.

The NRA is nothing but a corporate front to promote the industry's product.

It may not have always been, but it fell into corporatist, fascist hands at least 40 years ago and has been all about RW politics and pushing the product ever since, and damn the consequences.

The ONLY right, the ONLY constitution protection they are interested in is the 2nd amendment - to hell with 'ensure domestic tranquility' and 'promote the general welfare'.

Do you have info about funding from gun makers?