Another anti-gun Tennessee Mayor
In light of some recent postings on Knoxville Mayor Bill Haslam belonging to anti-gun group, I was going back through some links. Looks like Tennessee has another mayor that has recently allied himself with an anti-gun group: Shelby County Mayor A.C. Warton. Unlike Knoxville, the Memphis press has covered the issue:
Wharton will travel to Chicago later this week to meet with Mayor Richard Daley to learn how that city plans to fight its own problems with juvenile crime. “Our kids are not going out into the woods and finding an AK-47 under a brick somewhere,” Wharton said. “Somebody’s bringing those guns in here.”
Mr. Mayor, AK-47s are illegal in Chicago and Chicago still ranks quite high when it comes to murder and violent crime. They’re generally illegal in Memphis too.
November 20th, 2006 at 12:40 pm
Dang, and I liked Wharton.
Strange days, where I agree with King Willie and disagree with AC.
November 20th, 2006 at 1:25 pm
THere is still time for Knoxville’s bigoted gun banning mayor to redeem himself.
He could host a huge, major press event, invite Bloomberg et al down to Knoxville for it, and then declare in front of the gathered national prime time media that Bloomberg lied to him about the organization, its sponsors, and goals, that he feels horrible for having allowed himself to be tricked into joining such a shame organization, and then declare unambiviquently, that he will work tirelessly to defend the second amednemnt rights of all Tennessee citizens and fight the continued efforts of bigots such as Michael Bloomberg and the Brady Group to ban guns in America and undermine important fundamental, constitutionally protected, human rights.
Anything short of that, however, and his political career – rightly – should end in disgrace.
November 20th, 2006 at 8:13 pm
And that’s a large part of why we left Chicago.
November 21st, 2006 at 12:58 am
Hernton sucks, AC is right behind him although in a kinder and genteler way. It hurts less like that ya know.