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John Harris, president of the Tennessee Firearms Association, has issued a new attack on House Republican Caucus Chairman Debra Maggart following a House Republican Caucus vote Monday night - behind closed doors - to oppose efforts to bring the so-called "guns in parking lots" bill to a House floor vote.
A Maggart quote on Harris: "In my experience, weak men do not like strong women. I think that's what this is all about."
Here's an excerpt from the Harris email to supporters:
Rep. Debra Maggart's political career needs to end much as the Romans crucified criminals - not just to end her tenure but as a glaring example to other Republicans that you cannot take the grassroots groups or the rights of citizens for granted and then put your hand out to Big Business for their support all the while expecting to be re-elected. Symbolicly, it is time to display a used crucifix at the entrance to the General Assembly as a warning. Rep. Debra Maggart's race is not a race limited now to the 45 District from which she claims power. Her race is a statewide race for constitutional conservatives to stand up from all 99 districts and proclaim we will not be taken for granted and we will not have our rights as citizens sold for a measure of silver.
Rep. Maggart has a primary challenger in the Republican Primary. The challenger is Lt. Col. Courtney Rogers . Lt. Col. Rogers is raising the funds necessary to offset the enourmous Maggart warchest that we can assume has been funded in many respects by Big Business and related interests. Lt. Col. Rogers' campaign is asking every firearms owner and conservative in the State who has been taken for granted by Debra Maggart and her peers to contribute "$45 for the 45 District". It is interesting that the 45 is the caliber that has been used in the handguns of patriots and our armed forces for more than a century to defend the freedoms we cherish in this country. If just 10 percent of the 340,000+ handgun permit holders could make that small effort it would practically ensure that the voices of conservatives would no longer be taken for granted by the elected Republican leadership in Tennessee.
http://blogs.knoxnews.com/humphrey/2012/04/tfa-president-says-house-gop-c.html
DefenseLawyer
(11,101 posts)It essentially prevents businesses from banning employees from bringing guns to work, because obviously, nothing bad ever happens when people bring guns to work. The bill was written by ALEC, of course.
Erose999
(5,624 posts)would want to keep workplace gun violence down. But I guess some of the most powerful corporations are the ones that sell guns, and the GOP legislators ALEC buys for its member corporations need some scraps to throw to their gun totin' voters every now and then.
MrDiaz
(731 posts)and work at a shop out in a secluded place, we bring guns all the time, and shoot them outside too after we get off at the end of the day. I am all for bringing a gun to work if you have the proper licensing, people who have a concealed handgun license very rarely committ crimes using those firearms. It is usually criminals who do not own the gun legally that use them for such crimes.
DefenseLawyer
(11,101 posts)I own a business. I don't want one of those "rare" occasions where someone with a firearms license shoots up an office to be mine. I don't what my employees bringing guns to work. They should be free to move to Texas and go to work at your place of employment/shooting range. Unfortunately, we now have a law that tells me I have to allow people to bring guns on my property. It's a pretty extreme and unnecessary measure in my opinion, but you, my gun toting friend, are free to disagree.
socialist_n_TN
(11,481 posts)It tells me two things. Number 1, these gun laws are about intimidation. "If you don't agree with me, I'll threaten to kill you." Now, what are these people going to do when they HAVE the ability to be armed everywhere? Does anybody REALLY think that the intimidation factor will go down? These gunners want the ability to be armed intimidators. That's fascism and a lot of people are going to be killed because of it.
Number 2, the Republicans in the states where they are the sole option (like Tennessee) are fracturing along overt fascism and hidden fascist lines. Businesses don't want these laws because it will endanger business owners. At some point when you fire somebody, that somebody will go out to their truck, get their gun and come back in and try to shoot you. The gun fascists want their guns everywhere, a real Wild West mentality. This will be good because it will give the populist left a chance to take back the Democratic Party from the neoliberals.
MrDiaz
(731 posts)Has anyone legally able to carry a gun ever told you to agree with him or he will kill you? Has anyone you have EVER known had this experience that you speak of?
d_r
(6,907 posts)"...the voices of conservatives would no longer be taken for granted by the elected Republican leadership in Tennessee."
REALLY? REALLY? HOW THE FUCK RIGHT WING CAN YOU BE?
socialist_n_TN
(11,481 posts)in these staunch Republican areas are theocratic fascists. So think Mussolini and Hitler when you think about the answer to your question about "HOW THE FUCK RIGHT WING CAN YOU BE?" You can be, for all practical purposes, a Nazi.
HillWilliam
(3,310 posts)fall off the edge of that flat earth they're living on. "Buh-bye!!" can't happen soon enough.
cynatnite
(31,011 posts)Hoyt
(54,770 posts)Not used to supporting Republicans -- but I hope Caucus Chairperson Maggart does something special for the President of the Tennessee Firearms Association and NRA lobbyist.