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http://www.wbir.com/news/article/249212/2/West-TN-man-loses-handgun-carry-permit-after-making-video-threats<snip>
A West Tennessee man can no longer legally carry a a handgun, after he made threatening posts on the internet site YouTube.
The Tennessee Department of Safety and Homeland Security announced Friday that they had suspended James Yeager's handgun carry permit.
Yeager, 42, of Camden, posted videos claiming he would "start killing people" if the Obama administration took executive action to pass gun control measures.
Officials said the decision to suspend Yeager's handgun carry permit was based on a "material likelihood of risk of harm to the public" (TCA 39-17-1352).
"The number one priority for our department is to ensure the public's safety. Mr. Yeager's comments were irresponsible, dangerous, and deserved our immediate attention. Due to our concern, as well as that of law enforcement, his handgun permit was suspended immediately. We have notified Mr. Yeager about the suspension today via e-mail. He will receive an official notification of his suspension through the mail," Commissioner Bill Gibbons said.
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Bwaaaaaaaaaaaaah hahahahaha
tridim
(45,358 posts)SkyDaddy7
(6,045 posts)So he can no longer sell firearms...We will see.
Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)I also think you can count on him completely disregarding their edict. Gun idiotology obviously trumps the rules of civilized society for people like him.
SharonAnn
(13,776 posts)diabeticman
(3,121 posts)for the NRA and the ACLJ (Jay Secalow --or however he spells his name) This guy will be the new rallying point.
Don't get me wrong the guy deserved that and a little more BUT this guy is the next "Joe the Plummer" for the right.
Scuba
(53,475 posts)... more likely, the R's will run from him. They can smell the change in public opinion.
upaloopa
(11,417 posts)have one
leftynyc
(26,060 posts)to be the face of "gun rights". He's a lunatic and that rant on you tube will get even more attention and I'm guessing the independents will be as horrified as we all are at his lunacy.
elehhhhna
(32,076 posts)and they'll lose to their patriotact terroristic threats legislation
deliciously ironic
sendero
(28,552 posts)... even the right wing bullshit-o-sphere isn't that stupid. The guy made terroristic threats. He is lucky he is not in jail, much less a poster boy for gun control.
Tarheel_Dem
(31,235 posts)wing noise machine & Peter King would be calling on the DOJ to prosecute to the fullest extent of the law. They are world class hypocrites, and giant phoneys.
VOX
(22,976 posts)A-bloody-men!
muntrv
(14,505 posts)awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)I guarantee one of my coworkers will be saying on Monday that Obama did this.
alcibiades_mystery
(36,437 posts)til doomsday. Doesn't matter a whit. We're not having conversations with these idiots anymore. We're simply imposing public health laws on them. They can eat the penalties for noncompliance.
malaise
(269,063 posts)Well said
Shampoobra
(423 posts)"We're not having conversations with these idiots anymore. We're simply imposing public health laws on them."
SouthernDonkey
(256 posts)I've quit arguing with right wing idiot friends of friends on facebutt when they go there with the bullshit! I just shut up and post a little smirky face and leave it at that. I know it has to chap their ass, because they know we have the majority now and don't really give two shits about their blabbering rants!
The Magistrate
(95,248 posts)Sounds like the sort of thing he said to set him to killing people, of course....
Nay
(12,051 posts)This is going to be interesting - swat teams will gobble them up
frylock
(34,825 posts)2naSalit
(86,650 posts)Rider3
(919 posts)Nice to see some action taken on a person who, not only is a bully, but is clearly a threat to society's safety. Guy's got a loose screw in there someplace.
mfcorey1
(11,001 posts)for the President. All of this meltdown because of fabricated fears that the government is going to knock on their doors and take away their guns. I am tempted to get a gun because they won't put theirs down.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)He had come home to announce the good news he'd heard that morning:
In the early morning of June 12, 1963, just hours after President John F. Kennedy's speech on national television in support of civil rights, Evers pulled into his driveway after returning from a meeting with NAACP lawyers. Emerging from his car and carrying NAACP T-shirts that read "Jim Crow Must Go," Evers was struck in the back with a bullet fired from an Enfield 1917 rifle; it ricocheted into his home. He staggered 9 meters (30 feet) before collapsing. He died at a local hospital 50 minutes later.[11]
Mourned nationally, Evers was buried on June 19 in Arlington National Cemetery, where he received full military honors before a crowd of more than 3,000.
On June 21, 1963, Byron De La Beckwith, a fertilizer salesman and member of the White Citizens' Council (and later of the Ku Klux Klan), was arrested for Evers' murder.[12]
District Attorney and future governor Bill Waller prosecuted De La Beckwith. Juries composed solely of white men twice that year deadlocked on De La Beckwith's guilt.
In 1994, 30 years after the two previous trials had failed to reach a verdict, De La Beckwith was brought to trial based on new evidence. Bobby DeLaughter was the prosecutor. During the trial, the body of Evers was exhumed from his grave for autopsy.[3] De La Beckwith was convicted of murder on February 5, 1994, after having lived as a free man for much of the three decades following the killing (he was imprisoned on an unrelated charge from 1977 to 1980). De La Beckwith appealed unsuccessfully, and died at age 80 in prison in January 2001.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medgar_Evers
Now his widow will speak at the Inauguration this year. It's way past time we got past this regressive way of thinking. They won't go down without kicking and screaming, though. I also fear for our president and our nation.
Left Coast2020
(2,397 posts)do something stupid. This guy is not the only one that is about to go over the edge. Sad that they can't find something else to stroke instead of their 9mm.
SirRevolutionary
(579 posts)"Mr. Yeager's comments were irresponsible, dangerous, and deserved our immediate attention", they forgot to add that it's word salad and falls under the category of incoherent internet tough guy rambling.
Let's see his imaginary text-messaging tough guy warriors respond. Gentlemen, man the smart phones to combat this gub'ment intrusion!
wryter2000
(46,051 posts)Some things just make you smile.
tanyev
(42,572 posts)JoePhilly
(27,787 posts)Sunlei
(22,651 posts)jody
(26,624 posts)LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)"nd remove all other civil rights to make the point..."
To precisely what effect?
jody
(26,624 posts)LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)He may still own his handgun...
But again, to what effect do you believe he should have all civil rights removed (regardless of what you think I may or may not need to read)
jody
(26,624 posts)LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)" I don't know of any legal way to deny just one of a person's civil rights..."
Then may we safely presume your direct suggestion of removing all his civil rights was merely grade-school petulance on your part? Or possibly you're attempting to make a vague and diaphanous point with to no great effect or reason...?
jody
(26,624 posts)LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)"Apparently I overestimated the ability of some...."
Most likely yourself. Petulance is rarely graduate level, more often seen in 4th graders. Bless your little heart...
Rex
(65,616 posts)Evidently the admins DO pay attention to what people type on their site.
leftynyc
(26,060 posts)for someone who just got their ass handed to them.
Rex
(65,616 posts)For troll!
yardwork
(61,653 posts)Yes, that happens all the time. People get their licenses revoked for drunk driving, for instance, but they retain their other rights. People convicted of felonies lose the right to vote and a few other rights but the Bill of Rights still applies to them.
Are you suggesting that the state of Tennessee illegally removed this man's right to own a weapon?
NYC Liberal
(20,136 posts)Ever heard of gag orders that limit a person's freedom of speech?
Or restraining orders that limit a person's freedom to travel?
Or an involuntary psychiatric hold?
Or a quarantine?
VOX
(22,976 posts)And this guy, or anyone like him, forfeits the kind of "civil rights" to which you refer.
kestrel91316
(51,666 posts)ellisonz
(27,711 posts)2ndAmForComputers
(3,527 posts)Although a bit more polite than warranted.
obama2terms
(563 posts)Tsiyu
(18,186 posts)What part about "threatening to shoot people" is hard for you to comprehend?
Threatened: said he would do it
Shooting: aiming a gun and firing at other humans
People: the humans he aims to start firing bullets at
Did Parks or King threaten this?
Love these False equivalances you people pull out of your asses.
AlbertCat
(17,505 posts)It's a cult. The gun worshiping cult.
All logic and common sense fly out the window and are replaced by over-emotional baloney that doesn't exist. Y'know like the world ending on Dec 21st. Or the spaceship that built the pyramids is coming hiding behind a comet. It's just the same.
People not swayed by ridiculous crap must clean up the cult's mess... again.
BlueStreak
(8,377 posts)Even if we can't agree on exactly what the word "militia" means in the 2nd amendment, can somebody please explain why they would have included the words "well regulated" if they did not mean laws and government action?
What else could those words possibly mean?
jody
(26,624 posts)Petitioners take a seemingly narrower view of the militia, stating that [m]ilitias are the state- and congressionally-regulated military forces described in the Militia Clauses (art. I, §8, cls. 1516). Brief for Petitioners 12. Although we agree with petitioners interpretive assumption that militia means the same thing in Article I and the Second Amendment , we believe that petitioners identify the wrong thing, namely, the organized militia. Unlike armies and navies, which Congress is given the power to create (to raise Armies; to provide a Navy, Art. I, §8, cls. 1213), the militia is assumed by Article I already to be in existence. Congress is given the power to provide for calling forth the militia, §8, cl. 15; and the power not to create, but to organiz[e] itand not to organize a militia, which is what one would expect if the militia were to be a federal creation, but to organize the militia, connoting a body already in existence, ibid., cl. 16. This is fully consistent with the ordinary definition of the militia as all able-bodied men. From that pool, Congress has plenary power to organize the units that will make up an effective fighting force. That is what Congress did in the first militia Act, which specified that each and every free able-bodied white male citizen of the respective states, resident therein, who is or shall be of the age of eighteen years, and under the age of forty-five years (except as is herein after excepted) shall severally and respectively be enrolled in the militia. Act of May 8, 1792, 1 Stat. 271. To be sure, Congress need not conscript every able-bodied man into the militia, because nothing in Article I suggests that in exercising its power to organize, discipline, and arm the militia, Congress must focus upon the entire body. Although the militia consists of all able-bodied men, the federally organized militia may consist of a subset of them.
Finally, the adjective well-regulated implies nothing more than the imposition of proper discipline and training. See Johnson 1619 (Regulate: To adjust by rule or method); Rawle 121122; cf. Va. Declaration of Rights §13 (1776), in 7 Thorpe 3812, 3814 (referring to a well-regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained to arms).
BlueStreak
(8,377 posts)your citation concludes with, "the adjective 'well-regulated' implies nothing more than the imposition of proper discipline and training."
So again, I ask. What does the word "imposition" mean if it does not involve laws and government action?
jody
(26,624 posts)Congress has all the authority it needs regarding militia in Article I, Section 8, Clauses 15 & 16 of our constitution.
BlueStreak
(8,377 posts)What meaning could that possibly have other than government enforcement?
You seem to arguing that government doesn't have the responsibility to regulate guns, yet it is right there in plain English. And I see nothing in the Heller quote that indicates otherwise.
AlbertCat
(17,505 posts)OK....if you're gonna use the 18th century definition of "well regulated", you must use the 18th century definition of "arms" as well. We cannot define the 1st part of the sentence one way and the last part another.
So teach those boys how to load a flintlock. You have the right to own flintlocks.
pansypoo53219
(20,981 posts)gitmo still has room right?
Wednesdays
(17,381 posts)...oh, except a lighted match.
Quasimodem
(441 posts)They eat a lot of fiber.
BlueStreak
(8,377 posts)kestrel91316
(51,666 posts)jody
(26,624 posts)2ndAmForComputers
(3,527 posts)Warren Stupidity
(48,181 posts)Warren Stupidity
(48,181 posts)bettyellen
(47,209 posts)What he did?
You really think everyone should have guns no matter what they say or do?
That seems to be the point you're attempting to make.
2ndAmForComputers
(3,527 posts)Things are exactly like you say.
RainDog
(28,784 posts)The jump from enforcing the law to removing civil rights is mighty large for most folks.
but not for you.
and THEN you have the gall to put the racist anti-Obama nutters in the same category as people who, in the last century, fought for civil rights.
You need to stop with this false equivalency that rightly chills this neo-confederate hate bullshit that contain actual threats of physical violence and counter revolution with civil rights.
Warren Stupidity
(48,181 posts)Oh wait, Thanks EarlG!
RainDog
(28,784 posts)I can't keep up and I'm not here often enough to wallow in the metamud
GeorgeGist
(25,321 posts)1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)to the weapons that a previously lawful possessor has his/her priviledge suspended/revoked. Does law enforcement accept that the suspendee will just promise not to touch the now prohibited weapons?
Anyone know?
It seems that he is about to get his wish.
Motown_Johnny
(22,308 posts)this is just his ability to walk around with a pistol on him
1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)it's just his priviledge to carry; not his priviledge to possess?
Motown_Johnny
(22,308 posts)Historic NY
(37,451 posts)and collect them.
GeorgeGist
(25,321 posts)malaise
(269,063 posts)Won't be long.
The problem with these stupid fucks is that they do not read
Lars39
(26,109 posts)Cha
(297,323 posts)realizes that threats like this cannot be ignored. They are not just warning signs of instability.. they're "In Your Face, MOs.. I'm gonna get you with my stupid guns!"
I'm glad James Yaeger is such a Stupid Stupid man.
samsingh
(17,599 posts)Fresh_Start
(11,330 posts)since I'm not sure having someone that unstable is a good business decision.
Odin2005
(53,521 posts)In another thread a poster mentioned that "Yeager" is a common alias of while supremacists.
Didn't know that - explain further please
Odin2005
(53,521 posts)riqster
(13,986 posts)"Or "Hunter" auf englische.
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)This would be a good time since the nuts are coming out themselves. They have no one to blame for their stupid mouths but themselves.
Politicub
(12,165 posts)they are.
SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)He'll file a lawsuit ...bitch some more. Then he'll get a call from Ted Nugent ...both will bitch some more.
Buns_of_Fire
(17,183 posts)Team him up with Alex Jones!
grantcart
(53,061 posts)Put them on late in the afternoon and keep their schedule packed during the day so they don't have a chance to eat.
Then have the producer talking in each guys ear provoking each one.
Would be better than pay per view.
livefromsac
(6 posts)calimary
(81,323 posts)VERY happy to see this nutcase dis-armed. Not that he'd stay that way. I'll bet the first thing he does after they yank his license is to go out and get MORE guns illegally. There's no stopping these people, short of long-term incarceration.
glinda
(14,807 posts)malaise
(269,063 posts)I dare him to try using them now
freshwest
(53,661 posts)I'll never quit posting that skit.
calimary
(81,323 posts)YET ANOTHER example of unhinged delusional assholes with anger issues - who have NO BUSINESS anywhere NEAR guns of any kind!
One of them
calimary
(81,323 posts)And so are all the others like him.
Recursion
(56,582 posts)Flatulo
(5,005 posts)as well.
Taking his license is meaningless if he decides to go out in a blaze of glory. What, is he going to fear the penalty for unlawful possession while on his way to commit murder?
malaise
(269,063 posts)and a heavy dose of racism.
Flatulo
(5,005 posts)taking anyone else with him.
RomneyLies
(3,333 posts)Convict his ass and insure he can never legally own a gun again in his life.
malaise
(269,063 posts)and he will
A Simple Game
(9,214 posts)That must merit some kind of charge. Insurrection?
99Forever
(14,524 posts)... a better coward.
chuckrocks
(290 posts)still_one
(92,233 posts)redwitch
(14,944 posts)Because if they don't there is not much point.
2pooped2pop
(5,420 posts)I was hoping we'd hear something like this about this guy. I wish I could of seen him when he was told. lol
davesliberal1977_gg
(22 posts)Perhaps this will teach him a lesson, about keeping his big mouth shut, when it comes to saying such things. Typical RW gun nut maniac.
PeaceNikki
(27,985 posts)Solly Mack
(90,773 posts)defacto7
(13,485 posts)...but he doesn't care..... and people like him probably don't care either.
But I'm glad the Tennessee Department of Safety did it. It's a start but we have a long way to go.
frylock
(34,825 posts)Democratopia
(552 posts)Jones should also have to undergo a mental health assessment to see if he should be institutionalized in order to protect society.
Fearless
(18,421 posts)WillyT
(72,631 posts)WheelWalker
(8,955 posts)come for his guns, now.
Canoe52
(2,948 posts)most of the comments left there are just slamming him for being such an a**hole.
In one of his videos he says that Piers Morgan was the one who made a threat to Alex Jones... sorry dude you need to figure out which planet you are on, cause you for sure ain't on this one...
Welcome to DU
Larrymoe Curlyshemp
(111 posts)babylonsister
(171,074 posts)I just got home and haven't seen news all day.
malaise
(269,063 posts)Ha
babylonsister
(171,074 posts)it didn't happen?!
Tx4obama
(36,974 posts)Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)Sorry, gun.
Snarkoleptic
(5,997 posts)Stupid is as stupid does.
Canuckistanian
(42,290 posts)If the NSA can read everything we we post, then permits should be revoked based on what they read.
RomneyLies
(3,333 posts)Seems when he worked with Edinburgh Risk and Security Management (ESRM) in IRaq, he demonstrated COWARDICE UNDER FIRE:
http://mountainrunner.us/2006/01/edinburgh_risk_/#.UPDEt_KGe3M
So take that as you will...
malaise
(269,063 posts)Why am I not surprised
RomneyLies
(3,333 posts)COWARD?
geomon666
(7,512 posts)They were firing back after all.
apocalypsehow
(12,751 posts)*( )
This is actually how the vast majority of those who feel they can't venture to Wal Mart without a pistol perched in their pants no doubt fantasize about acting out like: they are simply itching to get into a shooting war with other Americans, this gump just happened to be stupid enough to verbalize it on YouTube.
tblue37
(65,409 posts)watoos
(7,142 posts)The guy who walked into a church and started shooting because he couldn't get near the top Libruls, so he went after the people who voted for the Libruls.
Yeah, all of the people I know who own assault rifles are pretty paranoid.
Also, are people sane who hide loaded guns throughout their house, you tell me?
xoom
(322 posts)Recursion
(56,582 posts)Since he's in Tennessee he won't have to surrender his handguns, though, and I don't think anywhere requires a license to own a rifle.
Still, I like seeing him taken down a peg.
Berlum
(7,044 posts)As usual.
These RepubliWankers really need to try American Values.
kooljerk666
(776 posts)....he just can't hide it. Also I am not sure if it is allowed to be loaded or accessible when driving.
toby jo
(1,269 posts)whoisthatis
(9 posts)Can we legally get rid of his silly beard as well.
sulphurdunn
(6,891 posts)on this thread has dealt with what the suspension of civil rights means. Whatever else it means, it most definitely means the de facto suspension of Habeas Corpus and the authority to commit the extrajudicial murder of American citizens by their own government.
John2
(2,730 posts)was a lot of hot air. Let's see how far he think he can get by beating his chest at the Government? They can put him in chains for all I care. Let him beat his chest behind bars.
Autumn
(45,109 posts)that's IMO a real fucking problem. K/R at least the ass can't "legally" carry a a handgun. But I bet he will.
malaise
(269,063 posts)arely staircase
(12,482 posts)guy complains (frighteningly) about an imaginary threat to his ability to carry a gun. this causes him to lose said ability.
blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)r2p
(2 posts)Rumor going around in Memphis bars Yeager gave a signal to white supremacist's for some kind of nation wide uprising the day Obama gets inaugurated.
Yeager no arrest? Govt will look stupid if something happens!