NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Threats, denunciations and verbal potshots between the National Rifle Association and the leaders of the Legislature were common in the decades that Democrats ran the show in the Tennessee Capitol. Turns out Republicans are just as good at running afoul of the powerful gun rights group.
GOP leaders in Nashville infuriated the NRA this year by refusing to go along with a bill to prevent businesses from banning guns on their property, and now the group is using its deep pockets to try to unseat one of them. Elsewhere, NRA-backed measures also ran into Republican roadblocks in Georgia, Alabama, Idaho and North Carolina this year.
The NRA notes recent successes in the legislatures of Virginia, Ohio and South Carolina, describing the recent setbacks as temporary.
“First of all the legislative process is rarely quick and is rarely pretty,” chief NRA lobbyist Chris W. Cox said in a phone interview. “We certainly take the long view and we’re committed to bring this not only to Tennessee but across the country.”
The NRA is backing up its words with campaign cash in Tennessee, spending $75,000 in an effort to defeat the No. 3 Republican in the state House, Rep. Debra Maggart of Hendersonville.
Read More at officialwire.com. By Erik Schelzig.
Photo Credit: HunT Trader (Creative Commons)
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Fair is fair…
If a person owns a business, it *supposed* to be their business and NOT your business.
But people loves to tell business owners how to play their business, even their lives.
As a business, if this was actually a Capitalist system, then the owner could and *supposed* to dictate their own terms for their own business. If I want a stinking business then I should be able to stir it any way I want! If’n I want smokers in my business, then it’s my choice. If’n I want to deny someone my services, then it’s my stinking business again.
The problem is this, people wants all things to suit themselves and people will make any excuse under the sun to get what they want. They will most gladly play with your business and run it for you. They don’t mind getting their hands all slimy and gooey playing with your business if they can feel good playing with your business. Some people actually get turned on, enjoying playing with other people’s business!
The above causes a problem that become contagious and is called, “stiff business syndrome”! It’s when many people all have the same attitude that they can stiff any business to make their rules apply to everyone. So they choose a business to stiff by claiming all sorts of sticky things, all in efforts to make society feel the business is the one actually stiffing the public. Decency laws are passed to make the business, other people’s business, and the owner of his own business cannot play with his business as he so desires any more, as he is the one who actually got stiffed or the short end of the stiff!
At some point the owner of his business realizes he is not having fun playing with his business any more because he’s drawn too many perverts who also wants to play with his business. Many of these owners give up in frustrating after failing to get satisfied and simply quits playing with their business!
In the process ordinary people who wanted no part of playing with other people’s business ended up also getting stiffed because they were forced to do business with a business that was stiffed by being forced to let other people who loved to play in other people’s business, play in their business! In the end the owners and the ordinary customers got Vaselined and caught the stiff business syndrome. Now they have this germ and are just waiting so they can find someone’s business which they would like to play with, and do their business the same, having some fun. What’s the saying, “What comes around, goes around!”
In all seriousness, the NRA had no right to try and determine how a business owner conducted and run his own business. No more so than others regulating smoking or anything else concerning any business. What you have managed to do by accomplishing these things, is, you have played into the government hands by allowing the government to run and regulate the business with an infinite amount of increasing rules and regulations and the business owner is forced to take full responsibility at his own expense, yet the government reaps money from these very laws with no obligation or expense. And the biggy is, ALL you as society has relinquished some of your rights and freedoms all in the name of peace and safety. In short you have taken what was once a Capitalistic Economic System and turned into a Economic System called, “State Capitalism.” (Look up the term) Free enterprise has nothing to do with it. In the process everyone pays more for their goods and services and the government is the only ones who actually benefits. Well except those who loves to play in other people’s business. In the case above it is the NRA… And I am a firearms owner, avid hunter and shooter… I do not compromise on the 2nd Amendment…. And I also know that in understanding the 2nd Amendment I also understand the rights and sovereignty of the people and their right to dictate terms on their property. BAD NRA, very bad…..
Michael– Deo Vindicabamur
What is the true intent of the UN Small Arms Treaty?
http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/01/12/what-is-the-true-intent-of-the-un-small-arms-treaty/
“Food For Thought”
Semper Fi!