Posted on 03/05/2010 8:47:27 AM PST by ZULU
MAPLEWOOD -- Matt Carmel is a card-carrying member of the National Rifle Association who lives here, a left-leaning suburban basin with annual "Be About Peace" days.
He has had polite differences of opinion over the years, evidenced by signs on his front lawn reading "I’m the NRA and I Vote."
But now he’s really miffed. Carmel, a licensed gun dealer, applied to sponsor a team in the local Babe Ruth/Cal Ripken baseball league, using the name of his business — Constitution Arms.
He was rebuffed.
(Excerpt) Read more at nj.com ...
I guess if he was a Mao-ist and sold Gay Paraphernalia they would gladly allow him to be a sponsor... GOSH!
I guess the 2A is “Un-American”...
Sheer ignorance. Pathetic.
Ask the kids and you’ll get a different answer. That is unless they have been totally indoctrinated to the socialists beliefs.
He should rename his business “Acorn Arms” and use a rainbow banner. Then they would not question it.
“Left-leaning?” Here’s how they voted: Christie: 1,560; Corzine: 5,612; Daggett: 466
From the linked article:
But, Carmel notes, other sponsors could be deemed "inappropriate" as well. The league overseers, he said, have permitted sellers of liquor and tobacco, as well as a Cluck-U Chicken eatery whose promos feature a scantily clad woman in a bikini with the suggestive words "Large Breasts, Juicy Thighs. Luscious Legs."
Good... I am sure this will raise a few eyebrows...
This is just one of those “Shake your head and move on” things.
I find it disturbing that Sponsors who exploit women as sex objects, such as the chicken place with the scantilly dressed woman advertising luscious breasts......
is allowed for the baseball players to advertise......
but a business who happens to sell fire arms is not.
ping
In today’s PC world, I doubt Chico’s Bail Bonds would be allowed to sponsor a team either.
LOL... Gosh, how I miss those ethnic jokes. I think I should start with them again, ya’ know if we give into PC then we are part of the problem as well, right?
This is near South Orange and in Essex County...far removed from me in Northern Morris County. Here’s an excerpt from wiki:
In 2004, Columbia High School made national headlines when the administration amended a policy regarding religiously themed holiday songs putting more strict guidelines in place. Many people believed the new rules to be too strict. Radio personality Don Imus produced a song on his radio program entitled “Oh, Little Town of Maplewood”, mocking the new rules of Columbia High School. The new guidelines were also mentioned on The O’Reilly Factor[13].
CHS has been no stranger to religious controversy. In the mid 1970s the school district was sued for teaching Transcendental Meditation for course credit. Later, The U.S. District Court ruled in Malnak v. Yogi (1979) that under the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution, TM was too religious to be taught in public schools (Malnak v. Yogi, D.C. Civil Action No. 76-0341.)
In June 2000, New York Times writer Tamar Lewin wrote “Growing Up, Growing Apart”[14], a lengthy feature highlight how an ethnically diverse trio struggled maintain friendships and cope with teen life at Columbia. The story trailed Aqeelah Mateen, an African-American Muslim, Kelly Regan, an Irish Catholic, and Johanna Perez-Fox, a Puerto Rican Jew; the group quickly became ambassadors for the school, and for their respective ethnic groups. The article wasn’t controversial, per se, but directed national attention to the school district and to Columbia specifically.
Columbia High School is an extremely diverse school ethnically, with 56% of the students being of African-American heritage and 37% being Caucasian[15]. Within this black-and-white composition are found a variety of ethnic backgrounds including Nigerian, Haitian, Jamaican, African-American, Jewish, Polish, Italian, and Irish. There has been much discussion regarding the Racial Academic Achievement Gap in the school district, and the tracking is often cited as the most glaring example of a racial disparity.[16] While diversity is usually a celebrated trait of Columbia, there have been moments of unease, and the occasional flare-up.
Maplewood is on the border of “the hood”. It neighbors the Oranges, Irvington, and Newark. The population of Maplewood is probably 60% black. That explains their unnatural attitude towards guns.
I’m not familiar with the demographics of Maplewood.
My suspicion is it is many lily white New York City invaders with their city views of guns, society, etc.
The reason New Jersey is the mess it is is due to large immigration from the five boroughs of New York City and that is manily white, Democrat and Liberal. Its been going on over the past 30 years or so.
See Demographics under:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maplewood,_New_Jersey
Nearly 60% white, 33% black, 5 % Hispanic and that leaves about 2% miscellaneous.
These idiots hould have their office flooded with letters of outrage and complaint over this attack on a Great American.
I resent them equating pornography with a right RECOGNIZED in the Constitution, a right that was freely enjoyed by our forefathers and the Founding Fathers of this nation.
If anyone is not in the mainstream of America, its the leftist pansies who have attacked this Great American and decent honest businessman, and, by extension, any American who believes in the Constitution and our God-given right to Self Defense.
The problem is we have been shaking our heads and moving on too often.
This kind of idiocy cries out for a vigorous response. Its how our rights are being incrementally eroded on the local level by arrogant elitists.
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