For the Children

The girl, whose name has not been released because she's a juvenile, pleaded guilty...

Cody Barden was hit by a vehicle and left unconscious by the side of the road. [More]

Via Avg Joe, who writes:

Unless I'm missing something here, the victim who is an under age kid gets his name in the paper but the under age criminal can't have her name in the paper.

The story identifies them both as high school students, but I guess it's possible Barden is 18...?

Regardless, I never did grok this business of shielding juvenile offenders from press scrutiny. If some adolescent reptile in my community is torturing kittens or the like, I'd like to know who the malformed monster is.

I guess I can see cases where due to the nature of the offense and the age of the perp it may be in everyone's best interest not to force them through life with a stigma, but that exception ought to be case-by-case as appropriate, as opposed to just a blanket media pass.

More often than not, it seems "Authorized Journalists" are champing at the bit to publish names of concealed carriers who haven't done anything wrong (well, except maybe applied for permission to exercise their right, but that's a different debate).

The Insoluble Conundrum

It doesn't matter what small percentage of the population stands up to oppose American tyranny -- IT WILL STILL BE ENOUGH. [More]

If freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose, it might be wise for those doing all the squeezing to not create a situation where there's no way out but through...

If Anyone Has a Moment...

I don't have time for an interminable back-and-forth with an ignorant anti commenting here.

If you'd like to weigh in, go for it.

Or perhaps this is a "don't feed the troll" moment?

Your Tennessee Dining Guide

In today's Gun Rights Examiner column, I included this quote:

Some restaurateurs were also opposed to the bill, saying it would hurt business in an already struggling industry. Randy Rayburn, owner of Nashville's Sunset Grill, posted a sign in his window earlier this week saying “No Guns Ever.”

That's this place.

So 2001 Belcourt Avenue, Nashville, is officially a "gun free zone." Anyone entering that premises is putting the lives of themselves and their party into Randy Rayburn's capable hands. What he's prepared to do should some predator decide to capitalize on his stupid sign and offensive attitude toward gun-owning patrons remains unsaid.

I suppose you could ask him.

Also on our list of dining establishments that expect you to put your life in their hands because they don't trust you is Rooster's Sports Bar and Grill in Rocky Hill.

Dave Nguyen, general manager of Rooster’s Sports Bar and Grill in Rocky Hill, says guns will be banned at the business despite the recently passed “guns-in-bars” legislation.

Trust your safety instead to highly trained career bouncers with tasers. Yeah, that makes sense.

If they haven't already started one, I think Tennessee Firearms Association should follow the lead of Ohioans for Concealed Carry and maintain a database of establishments that don't "allow" gun owners to make the choice for themselves.

Free WarOnGuns "No Guns/No Money" cards are still available for download at several sites linked to in "comments" here.

Backing Off

Several weeks ago, STRATFOR heard from sources that the FBI and other law enforcement organizations had been ordered to “back off” of counterterrorism investigations into the activities of Black Muslim converts. At this point, it is unclear to us if that guidance was given by the White House or the Department of Justice, or if it was promulgated by the agencies themselves, anticipating the wishes of President Barack Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder. [More]

Well, jeez, guys...

It's not like they're "right wing extremists" or anything...

[Via John Hardin]

No Special Allowance

President Obama should immediately issue orders to allow military recruiters to be armed for self-defense. [More]

Sorry, Mr. Blackwell. No "Only Ones."

I agree with WarOnGuns correspondent Michael G, who writes:

"Don't get in the way as the Citizenry arms itself, and as members of the Citizenry the military recruiters will also be armed.

Another Institution of Higher Learning

And what can be said for a school that sets aside a free-speech zone, as Tarrant County College in Fort Worth, Texas, has done, but that will not allow an empty-holster protest by students regarding the weapon-carrying issue in that free-speech zone. [More]

I never understood the motivation to hold an empty holster protest, and candidly, think it's a misguided idea. But be that as it may--it sounds like the guardians of tolerance and diversity are determined to make a filled holster protest inevitable some day.

An Institution of Higher Learning

FIRE reported Brashier was ordered into a meeting with school officials, "who told her that passing out her non-commercial pamphlets was prohibited as 'solicitation.' Furthermore, they insisted that the college pre-approve any pamphlets, that pamphlets like hers would not be approved, and that Brashier destroy all copies of her pamphlet," the organization reported.

"At one point during the meeting, Dean Yvonne Burns reportedly said, 'You may want to discuss this topic but the college does not, and you cannot make us.' Brashier was warned that any further efforts would be considered 'academic misconduct.'" [More]

And what have we learned from this...?

[Via Jeffersonian]

Gun News Updates: TN Veto Override and NRA Appeal

There are new developments for two stories presented here this week. The Tennessee guns in adult dining establishments veto has been overridden, and NRA is appealing the Seventh Circuit ruling upholding gun bans. [More]

Today's Gun Rights Examiner column brings us up to date. You'll note a side trip to a Nashville restaurant I'll have more to say about later.

Also get the latest from my fellow GREs.

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This Day in History: June 4

The Commissary General to have his slaughter-house, at least a mile in the rear of the camp, and to be very careful to have the offals, of what he kills, buried, a sufficient depth under ground: He must be provided with waggons, to convey the meat to places near each Brigade, for the more commodious distribution of it; and must see that no relicts are left in those places, through carelessness. As proper precautions, in the regulation of this part of the Commissary General’s department, are essential to the health of the army, The General hopes he will be particularly attentive to it. [More]