LIBERADIO(!)

First, from the AP via Kleinheider, the Tennessee Firearms Association exhibits their true beliefs – they only value your personal liberty if it matches exactly their personal vision of said liberty:

The Tennessee Firearms Association is seeking to publicly identify each law enforcement officer and prosecutor who attended Gov. Phil Bredesen’s veto of a bill to allow people with handgun carry permits to take their weapons into bars and restaurants that serve alcohol.

And now, Tennessee Gun Owners want to punish a small-business owner for operating his business the way he sees fit. Andy Feinstone, co-owner of Bosco’s (Nashville, Cool Springs, Memphis), posted signs in all his restaurants banning handguns, because, you know, it’s his business and he has that right and the freedom to make that choice. “I think it’s great that the governor vetoed it, and hopefully it doesn’t get overridden,” Feinstone told The Leaf Chronicle.

But “his business, his decision” is a tenant that doesn’t sit too well with the TGO organizers, who want to force Mr. Firestone to operate on their terms:

So I am curious. How many of you would participate in a lawful, peacful protest in front of the Hillsboro Village location of Boscos restaurant following the presumed Tennessee House & Senate override of Governor Bredesen’s veto?

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The goals of this would be to:

* Put these restaurant owners on notice that not only will they lose our business as pro-personal protection consumers, but they will also have unwanted attention drawn to their practice.

* Inspire restaurant owners to reconsider their decisions and remove their individual ban on being able to protect ourselves while dining in their establishments.

* By dressing nicely, having intelligently worded signs and flyers, and conducting ourselves peacefully and with tact and decorum, show that gun owners are not all neanderthal redneck backwoods hicks as the media paints us so broadly.

In other words, you have the personal freedom to operate your business the way you wish until we don’t like what you’re doing. The Party of Personal Freedom? FAIL