The new law gained national attention after Greg Sankey, commissioner of the Southeastern Conference -- the top-tier collegiate sports league in which the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Razorbacks compete -- released a statement earlier this week. In it, he opposed the law and said it could affect scheduling and other aspects of the athletic program if guns were allowed into sporting events. Then Razorbacks head football Coach Bret Bielema and players weighed in with their own concerns ... [More]Since when do these handlers and their gaggle of young meatheads have any say in your and my unalienable rights?
I guess when "we" value their diversionary bread and circuses more than "we" do those rights. And don'tcha just love the A+ rater assuring those mandated disarmed that "sniper teams" will protect them? Talk about a meathead.
It won't affect me one bit because even without a ban, I have better things to do and places to be.
Good use of the term 'meathead'.
ReplyDeleteI've started watching MEAT EATER on Netflix and have more interest in learning about hunting...I've stopped caring about professional sports when the Great Outdoors are more fun
Note that the article at least positions this as a fight against the NRA... odd, as I thought they were taking away MY rights as citizen. oh right.. anything to sell it.
ReplyDelete"For one bill moving through the Arkansas Legislature, the National Rifle Association met a competitor that it could not best -- college athletics.."
"As to the species of exercise, I advise the gun. While this gives a moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise, and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body, and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun therefore be the constant companion of your walks."
ReplyDelete-Thomas Jefferson
Source reference for Jefferson quote:
ReplyDeletehttps://www.monticello.org/site/research-and-collections/exercise