Bredesen's response

[Guest dboonekilledabearhere]

Below is the response I received from an email that I had sent regarding the restaurant carry bill. I asked the Governor to consider signing the bill into law. I guess he forgot that during his campaign for Governor he said he would sign a restaurant carry bill. Maybe this is just not the right bill for him.

May 19, 2010

Dear Dennis:

Thank you for your message about the "guns in bars" legislation. On May 18, 2010, I vetoed Senate Bill 3012. As I stated in my veto message of a similar piece of legislation last year, I believe a basic and effective rule of gun safety is one I was taught at a National Rifle Association-sponsored gun safety class almost 50 years ago: "Guns and alcohol don't mix." This legislation ignores that fundamental principle.

I am a strong supporter of the individual right to keep and bear arms, and I hold this right sacred as both an American and a Tennessean. I am a gun owner, and I exercise my rights as a hunter and in various other shooting activities. I value the constitutional right that allows me to protect my home and family. In Tennessee, this right has been exercised with reasonable common-sense rules.

Until last year, Tennessee long had prohibited the possession of firearms in bars and restaurants that served alcohol. The legislation passed last year removed this protection in a manner that I, along with many law enforcement officers and innumerable private citizens, believed to be reckless and lacking in basic safeguards to public safety.

A successful court challenge to last year's actions provided the General Assembly with a second opportunity to reconsider and adopt a more responsible approach to this issue. Instead, the General Assembly essentially re-passed that legislation in an even more expansive and dangerous form. For this reason, I could not sign the new measure into law.

Warmest regards,

Phil Bredesen

PB:jb

[Oh Shoot]

Same form letter that others got.

http://www.tngunowners.com/forums/tennessee-politics-legislation/40161-restaurant-carry-vetoed-4.html#post525934

And of course, it's not like HE took time to send it.

Pretty much echoes letter he sent to Senate:

http://www.tngunowners.com/forums/tennessee-politics-legislation/40161-restaurant-carry-vetoed.html#post524989

- OS

[bockey]

yep, I got "formed" the same way

[Guest truthsayer]

ditto. I got the same email. My response was left on his voicemail. Eff our governor.

[Fallguy]

Nobody really expected and individualized response did they?

[Guest Doc44]

I sure am glad that yankee carpetbagger came down here and saved us from ourselves and taught us gun safety. Did Serpas go to China with him to stand by him when he vetoed it... where is Serpas... Oh, wait.... forgot... he's gone to the Big Easy to cook the stats down there.

Doc44

PS: Remember boys and girls, GUNS AND ALCOHOL DON'T MIX.... and it don't go well with cars, hang gliding, roofing and roller skates.

[tnhawk]

I'm not suprised that his veto was made while he was in China!

I agree with him guns and alcohol don't mix - I'd never put alcohol in my guns or guns in alcohol.

As quickly as possible, gun owners need to call or email as many senators and representatives as possible, to ask that they over ride the veto.

TFA has a link providing their emsil sddresses.

[G27]

I'd probably be put on vacation if I shared what my response to bredesen would be.

He exemplifies what's wrong with politicians nowadays.

[Guest 6.8 AR]

I sure am glad that yankee carpetbagger came down here and saved us from ourselves and taught us gun safety. Did Serpas go to China with him to stand by him when he vetoed it... where is Serpas... Oh, wait.... forgot... he's gone to the Big Easy to cook the stats down there.

Doc44

PS: Remember boys and girls, GUNS AND ALCOHOL DON'T MIX.... and it don't go well with cars, hang gliding, roofing and roller skates.

You said exactly what he is. I wish Tennessee had never heard of him.

[Guest SUNTZU]

I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.

[Fallguy]

I'm not suprised that his veto was made while he was in China!

I agree with him guns and alcohol don't mix - I'd never put alcohol in my guns or guns in alcohol.

As quickly as possible, gun owners need to call or email as many senators and representatives as possible, to ask that they over ride the veto.

TFA has a link providing their emsil sddresses.

We have the same link in this post in the thread that was already discussing the veto.

[leroy]

I sure am glad that yankee carpetbagger came down here and saved us from ourselves and taught us gun safety. Did Serpas go to China with him to stand by him when he vetoed it... where is Serpas... Oh, wait.... forgot... he's gone to the Big Easy to cook the stats down there.

Doc44

PS: Remember boys and girls, GUNS AND ALCOHOL DON'T MIX.... and it don't go well with cars, hang gliding, roofing and roller skates.

Amen brother!! My sentiments exactly. Maybe he will go back home to the northeast. We can only hope.

Keep up the good work!

Kind regards,

Leroy

[Guest Eliminator55]

I just emailed every state legislature urging them to override the governor's inept veto.

Hopefully the legislature acts quickly to override the veto.

I can't wait to vote Bredesen out of office. He serisouly SUCKS!

[Oh Shoot]

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I can't wait to vote Bredesen out of office. He serisouly SUCKS!

You really don't follow TN politics, do ya?

- OS

[mcurrier]

You really don't follow TN politics, do ya?

- OS

LOL