A reminder: by my reading (and I am not a lawyer, so I could very well be wrong, and if I am, I would appreciate it being pointed out to me), the law is both now in affect, and allows for “circle-and-slash” signs/stickers being legally binding. Walk past one of those, and you are looking at a maximum of 11 months, 29 days in jail.
That is, indeed, something we need to work on next year.
We’re freer, but not completely free until the State government abides by its own Constitution (Article I, Section 26) by which we have an enumerated, protected RIGHT to keep AND CARRY arms for self-defense. Requiring a permit to exercise a RIGHT is UNLAWFUL.
David Randolph Smith said servers who work in restaurants considered unlikely to prohibit guns intend to file a complaint stating the new law violates state workplace safety regulations.
I guess, then, workplace safety would also need to cover anywhere and everwhere, streets, homes, cars, and so on. I mean, those pro-gun folks carry their guns everywhere! ( sarcasm alert )
I hope it DOES come to court; the defense could bring Suzanne Gratia-Hupp in to testify…
I’m damn sick and tired of these restaurant owners who want it both ways; hate my guns, but won’t put up the sign to keep me and my handgun and my money out.
You’re exactly right! This law specifically defers to prejudiced and bigoted restaurant owners to discriminate against those of us, a minority, who choose to exercise our RIGHT of armed self-defense.
What gripe could they possibly have??!! And they would probably opppose any other minority being treated the same way!!
June 4th, 2010 at 11:21 pm
w00t!
Next year … Vermont-style carry and concealed carry on campus. Both uphill battles. Hasn’t stopped us yet, though.
June 5th, 2010 at 12:05 am
Free at last, free at last.
June 5th, 2010 at 8:15 am
A reminder: by my reading (and I am not a lawyer, so I could very well be wrong, and if I am, I would appreciate it being pointed out to me), the law is both now in affect, and allows for “circle-and-slash” signs/stickers being legally binding. Walk past one of those, and you are looking at a maximum of 11 months, 29 days in jail.
That is, indeed, something we need to work on next year.
June 5th, 2010 at 1:14 pm
David,
We’re freer, but not completely free until the State government abides by its own Constitution (Article I, Section 26) by which we have an enumerated, protected RIGHT to keep AND CARRY arms for self-defense. Requiring a permit to exercise a RIGHT is UNLAWFUL.
June 5th, 2010 at 11:49 pm
In the Tennessean ( http://www.tennessean.com/article/20100605/NEWS0201/6050351/Tennessee+House+overrides+guns-in-bars+veto )”
David Randolph Smith said servers who work in restaurants considered unlikely to prohibit guns intend to file a complaint stating the new law violates state workplace safety regulations.
I guess, then, workplace safety would also need to cover anywhere and everwhere, streets, homes, cars, and so on. I mean, those pro-gun folks carry their guns everywhere! ( sarcasm alert )
June 6th, 2010 at 12:19 am
CarlS–
I hope it DOES come to court; the defense could bring Suzanne Gratia-Hupp in to testify…
I’m damn sick and tired of these restaurant owners who want it both ways; hate my guns, but won’t put up the sign to keep me and my handgun and my money out.
June 6th, 2010 at 11:12 am
rickn8or,
You’re exactly right! This law specifically defers to prejudiced and bigoted restaurant owners to discriminate against those of us, a minority, who choose to exercise our RIGHT of armed self-defense.
What gripe could they possibly have??!! And they would probably opppose any other minority being treated the same way!!
June 7th, 2010 at 2:19 pm
Oldsmobile98 –
I would add Rifle Carry Permit legislation to your wish list.