Gun Freaks Acting Like Schoolyard Bullies
After running roughshod over the legislature all session, the state's Second Amendment champions are reacting like a gang of bullies to the governor's veto of the guns-in-bars bill. As every kid on the schoolyard learns, if you punch a bully in the nose, he cries like a baby.
First, Tennessee Firearms Association's John Harris sent an "action alert" asking his members to review news photos and videos of the governor's veto ceremony to "help us identify the police chiefs, officers and district attorneys who stood with Bredesen."
Harris said, "We want to compile a list of their names, districts and supervisors," for posting on the TFA website, thus making it more convenient to harass these law officers.
Then last night on the House floor, Rep. Curry Todd basically told the governor to stick his veto up his ass. Now, Rep. Stacey Campfield is accusing Bredesen of duping all those law officers who joined the governor in opposition to that bill. They didn't know what they were doing there at that press conference, Campfield claims, calling the governor "sneaky."
It is now coming out that several of those police chefs [sic] may not have been as excited about the governors over ride [sic] on the gun bill as he would like people to believe.We are now finding out they were all in town for some convention or other and were asked to come over and meet the governor during a break. Of course most of them went. When they got there they were all piled in together and finally told what it was about just shortly before the signing of his veto with them as the backdrop.
They did not come to the event knowing they were about to be used.
What could explain all this whining? We're thinking that legislators must have heard it from constituents on this bill over the weekend. Maybe they're finally figuring out that reasonable people actually don't think guns in bars is such a wonderful idea.
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