Posted on 07/02/2009 5:27:53 AM PDT by marktwain
MURFREESBORO, Tenn. - If Murfreesboro decides to allow guns in parks it could cost the city the annual Spring Fling event and the $3.5 million it brings in from tourism.
The executive director of TSSAA said there is no way they would allow the week-long high school sport state tournaments to be played at a park where guns are allowed.
A state law allowing people with carry permits to bring guns in parks goes into effect September first. However, local governments can opt out.
Murfreesboro's City Council decided last week to postpone voting on a measure to uphold its ban on handguns in city parks.
The state law allowing guns in parks takes effect September 1.
I’m betting it’s a lawsuit thing - parents suing schools for allowing their children to be “exposed to guns” at school sponsored events.
Funny... they still take field trips during hunting season....
Couldn’t they just ban them for that one event? Not that I agree with that, but it could be a compromise.
The TSSAA is made up of mostly school principals, members of school board associations and other people heavily into the education field.......also members of the NEA and other liberal groups.
Only committed liberals would try to defy the will of the people by using blackmail.
For the acryonym-challenged among us, TSSAA stands for Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Association.
Wow.
When I was a kid, High Schools had rifle teams.
Ya took your gun to school.
On the Subway.
In NYC.
Times change.
Wow! I had no idea. We didn’t have a rifle team that I recall at my semi-upstate NY high school (North Rockland) in the 70s. I should check my senior yearbook to be sure, though.
We had one at both of my secondary schools in Texas in the late 1970’s - early 1980’s.
Who is this guy? Is he elected? If appointed, he can be fired!
FYI, Murfreesboro is the home of Barrett firearms.
Control control control. I am SO SICK of being put under thumbs. Bastard blackmailing bullies.
no rules in TN against firearms at school events?
depending on the school system they could pull the crap that school disitricts here pull, “if its a school event, even if its not school property, we consider it school property while we’re there”
They can consider it a hunk of Swiss cheese if they want but that will have zero impact on the calcium content.
I don't think that's necessarily fair. If some majority of voters enacted something that infringed on my rights improperly, I would do everything I could to defy them and trip them up. Technically that would be "the will of the people" too. The only difference is that the TSSAA has their heads up their collective butt.
My old highschool still has a rifle team as do many of the local highschools around here. My gun club sometimes allows different schools to use their grounds for facilities during tournaments.
I'm speaking from direct experience in M'boro.
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