Worriedman

We have an average of 6 e-mails to each Representative who is NOT a Judiciary Committee member. There is a big push back by Leadership to forstall this effort, and the arm twisting is just beginning. Currently there are somewhere between 20 and 28 co-sponors on the sheet, we need 55 to win. If we are to carry the day, it is going to take everybody that has contacted their Rep.s and Senators to get at least 5 more people that they know and can influience to do the same, and then get at least 2 of them to get 5 more to do it. If the speaker wins this time we are done, we will be hanging around the foot of the table waiting for scraps from now on.

I'm in, took a while, what was my password?

IMHO Doug Jackson got popped because he had a D behind his name, that he was the staunchest Firearms issue supporter in the Senate did not do him in, it was the tidal wave of anti-Obama voting that got him. What they (Legislators) fear is that Fed Ex will not give them the maximum allowable under the Law donation to their campaigns (as passed by this very same Legislature last year) if they do not tow the line as set out by "Big Business". Money talks and BS walks.

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No one implied they would get it right, just what their intent was. "Innocence" as a defense.

Fallguy, I think you have it sir. I spoke with the Sponsor, and that is precisely what his intent was, to preclude a situation like that which occurred with the nurse in New York.

Robert, you are correct in that it will require a lot of effort, from a lot of people to get the RIGHT Bill into consideration. I suggest those who advocate for the ability of the Citizen to provide for their own safety and security, unite behind the NRA written and sponsored SB 3002 ( along with it's sister SB 2992). If we provide enough documentation showing support from more than 50% of the Legislators in each house for these Bills as written, there is a good chance that those who are opposed will at least have to allow the up/down vote, or, face the consequences of showing for all to see their intent to rule, not serve.

First job if we want this to go anywhere, is to gain Republican Co-sponsors. My Rep. Jimmy Eldridge has already signed on, we need a bout 30 more to make the Bills stick. Get out those pens and calling cards!

Here is our chance, NRA is backing, we as Tennesseans need to pull out all the stops.

This is not what we should be supporting.

Not sure what chance they have, but here are decent Bills: http://www.capitol.tn.gov/Bills/107/Bill/SB3002.pdf http://www.capitol.tn.gov/Bills/107/Bill/SB2992.pdf NRA-ILA :: Tennessee: NRA-Drafted Employee Protection Legislation Introduced

One would assume that any politician who wanted to avail themselves of that targeted group would need some bona fides to make it work. Don't think we really have any who could point to a record that would make the stamps worth the effort. It got tried last round, and bore no fruit. Most people are just to lazy to get involved, regardless of the stakes.

I have met and spoken with Zach several times, and am impressed with his dedication to supporting the Constitution. He is a Veteran, as well as being and ardent Gun-Rights supporter.

Colt Officers Model.

Here is another choice for that seat:

Quick!

Screen that covers the lowest drain at my company (same one Old Goat works for) I catch all the crap. Sr. Project Manager for a Design/Build Construction Firm. I do estimating, procurement, crisis management and collections. Major in Steel Mills/Galvanizing Lines, Minor in Owner Wrangling.

I am reminded of the old saw: Gun Control: The theory that a woman found dead in an alley, raped and strangled with her panty hose, is somehow morally superior to a woman explaining to police how her attacker got that fatal bullet wound. Terrible situation, you can hear the pain and angst in her voice at the end, but she provided for her own defense, as we all must do.

All that protection from the 535 and SCOTUS worked real well for the Cherokee Nation did it not? I was not intimating that the President would use the Armed Forces for gun confiscation, just that he has cards the Congress and Supreme Court does not. It has been applied before, (the Presidents superior place in power). Did not see the present President asking Congress what they thought or wanted with respect to Libya. Again, there will be no door to door collection, but make the pain big enough, and the sheeple will capitulate. Then there is this: Obama Using Unconstitutional Measures to Ban Guns*|*Godfather Politics From the article: [Contained in that bill was a measure that forbids the National Institute of Health from using any of their funds to ‘advocate or promote gun control.’ When Obama signed the spending bill, he added a provision of his own which says, “I have advised Congress that I will not construe these provisions as preventing me from fulfilling my constitutional responsibility to recommend to the Congress’s consideration such measures as I shall judge necessary and expedient."] Your keys are working well, huh? The Congress passes laws, he refuses to acknowledge the parts he does not like. I have seen nobody pushing back against him for such action, did not even make the drive by media.

Have to admit I agree. Can't get the sheeple motivated to write a letter to their State congresscriters to put pressure to move back to Constitutional law with respect to firearms issues, they are not going to jump into a firefight to save their guns from confiscation. But then, they will not have to, the Government will not go door to door, they will simply cut off entitlements, power, gasoline, access to health care till the people give in.

As I suppose in the case of Andrew Jackson and the Supreme Court, where Jackson said: "John Marshall has made his decision; now let him enforce it!", the Court's opinion was moot because it had no power to enforce its edict. The President has the Dept. of Justice, and is the Commander and Chief of the Armed Forces, the IRS and anymore, the armed wing of the Dept. of Education. Who is the SCOTUS and Congress going to call, Ghostbusters?

Jackson last election, 7% or registered voters showed up. In TN anyone that wants to vote can.

Personally, I feel that Life is like all the TV channels in the world are on a box that someone else has the remote for. They get to pick what is playing, and we must adjust to what is on the screen when we wake up each day. So many outside influences that the individual can not control effect our lives. Sickness, of ourselves or those who depend on us can crop up and change the metric instantly. Market forces which drive our livelihoods can change and the best laid plans... My father (and his father) affected me most in the way I approach existence, neither had an education past the 8th grade, and struggled mightily for the legal tender to take care of their families. They taught me that there is a vast difference in being educated and intelligent, of course both pushed me to get educated to the highest level that I could, as they did my siblings. (one is a DR., another a lawyer with a sprinkling of teachers and real estate agents), I chose to remain in the field that paid for all that, even though I got my BS in Education, (taught Chemistry and Physics for a few years, did not like being inside, and parents and kids are turds) I prefer to work in the construction field, at least there one can deal with a prick in front of other men. Being raised in the family concrete business, I learned to hustle in the summer and develope patience in the winter, and always get it correct the first time, or you tear it out and lose you hinney to make it so, as you only get paid if it is right. They also taught me to do my best, so that at the end of the day, I suffer not from regret about what might have been, and, they taught me to treat others as I would like them to treat me, and to never steal and tell the truth. With all that being said, I approach every venture like I am killing snakes, and as result, I sleep well at night, knowing I have done my best. When I get up tomorrow, some one will have changed the channel, and I will have to deal with that new reality.

Did a search, did not find this posted yet. Husband died from cancer on Christmas Day. Two thugs try to break in New Year's Eve, she calls 911, at least 21 minutes listening to them go door to door trying to gain entry, holding her baby, and her shotgun. Blanchard woman shoots and kills intruder - KFOR

From this article:NRA-ILA :: We Saved A Space For You The same issue was tried by the courts in the dispute between "Big Business" and the People in Oklahoma. In 2007, the United States District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma ruled against the plaintiffs on their first three arguments--that the law was unconstitutionally vague, a taking of private property or a violation of due process rights--but did rule that the OSHA Act’s “general duty clause†preempted the Oklahoma statute. That clause requires employers to provide a safe workplace. Of particular note during the appeals process was a letter to state Sen. Ellis from Acting Assistant Secretary of Labor Thomas Stohler, head of OSHA at the end of the Bush administration, that buttressed the state’s case. “I was pleasantly surprised when (Stohler) wrote a letter on Jan. 16, 2009,†Cooper said, “stating that it was OSHA’s position that the general duty clause of the Occupational Safety and Health Act does not pre-empt the Oklahoma statute … “This letter, of course, confirmed the legal position we were then arguing to the Tenth Circuit, and the court made reference to it in its opinion adopting our position,†Cooper said. Indeed, on Feb. 18, 2009, Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals Judges Paul Kelly, Bobby Baldock and Michael McConnell reversed the ruling of the District Court. The appellate decision allowed the Oklahoma parking lot statute to stand.