Tampa mayor Bob Buckthorn wrote to the governor, requesting firearms be banned at the RNC convention in August. The governor answered in the negative and for that we thank him.

Florida Gov. Rick Scott has rejected a request to ban visitors from carrying concealed weapons in downtown Tampa during the Republican National Convention in August.

The request came from Mayor Bob Buckhorn, who wrote Scott to ask for an executive order to override state and federal laws allowing people with concealed weapons permits to carry firearms.

Buckhorn and others are concerned about people carrying guns at such a large, politically charged gathering.

In a same-day response to Buckhorn’s letter Tuesday, Scott, a Republican, said banning guns in the downtown area would infringe upon citizens’ constitutionally protected rights to legally arm themselves.

“Like you, I share the concerns that ‘violent anti-government protests or other civil unrest’ can pose dangers,” Scott wrote in his two-page response. “But it is unclear how disarming law-abiding citizens would better protect them from the dangers and threats posed by those who would flout the law.

Scott also said that his understanding is guns are already banned inside the convention center and in the surrounding “safety zone” created by the Secret Service.

Fox News

The man gets it. And for that we are grateful.

Bank of Something, but it sure isn't America

Apparently doing business with a firearm related company is too risky for one of the largest banking institutions in the U.S..

McMillan Fiberglass Stocks, McMillan Firearms Manufacturing and McMillan Group International have been collectively banking with Bank of America for 12 years. But no more: In a recent meeting, the mega-bank told the firearms company that its business is no longer welcome.

Operations director Kelly McMillan told the Daily Caller that his company has never been late on a payment and has never bounced a check. The debt outstanding on its line of credit is at 61 percent.

But at the bank’s request, he said, the McMillan group of companies would soon be paying off its credit line and closing its accounts.

Writing Thursday on Facebook, McMillan described a meeting at his office with Ray Fox, a business banking Senior Vice President with the giant bank. What was originally scheduled as an “account analysis” meeting, however, quickly became a political smackdown.

The Bank of America emissary, he said, “spent 5 minutes talking about how McMillan has changed in the last 5 years and have become more of a firearms manufacturer than a supplier of accessories.”

“At this point I interrupted him,” McMillan said, and asked, ‘Can I possibly save you some time so that you don’t waste your breath? What you are going to tell me is that because we are in the firearms manufacturing business you no longer what my business.’”

Fox’s reply, according to McMillan? “That is correct.”

McMillan told TheDC that he plans to move his company’s account to “a more Second Amendment-friendly bank” as soon as it can be done.

He recalls telling the bank executive that he planned to tell the National Rifle Association, Safari Club International, and his other gun-loving friends “that Bank of America is not firearms-industry-friendly.”

“You have to do what you must” was Fox’s reply, he said. “We have to assess the risk of doing business with a firearms related industry.”

Daily Caller

Guess they don’t want our business, either.

H/T: Erinyes

They want to take back broadcast resources for the likes of… Schultz and Mahr? Hell, if Hanoi Jane had her way we’d be calling each other ‘comrade’.

Go to Marooned in Marin for many more examples of the left’s ‘selective moral outrage’.

Toons via Pookie.

Piers seems to be a useful idiot for leftists… but sometimes he’s not even useful. Good grief.

A few days ago Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius wrote:

And not every woman has used or will use birth control. I am an exception to her rule.

Meanwhile, House Speaker Boehner and fellow Republicans have vowed to fight the mandate. With what, pop guns?

Romney claims that obama is infringing on religious rights… Meanwhile, as Governor, he did the same thing with Romneycare? Oh, what a tangled web we weave…

But, mission at hand, we persevered and Mike bought a stealthy new carry piece. He’d gone with Kel-Tec in mind, but I and every dealer he spoke with talked him out of it, so he ended up with a subcompact little Ruger LCP, a .380 double action with a laser. You can’t believe how tiny and light the thing is; like a deadly toy.

Gun show regulars in Dade county back in the early 90′s, people watching was half the fun for us. The crowds then were mostly… ‘aficionados’. Lots of strange shirts, bandanas, rough looking types…
This crowd was ‘just folks’. I only saw one Harley t-shirt. There were people of all ages, from every walk of life. The disparity between then and now was stunning.

Interesting facts about the auditorium – Opening in 1950, it cost just $450,000. in community donated funds to build.
The lobby floor features the names of WWII battles radiating from a floor seal and there’s also a statue of a Vietnam War soldier, donated by the Gold Star Mothers in the mid 1970’s.

The Ten Commandments sit out front. It IS city property and atheist groups have tried to get it removed, but evidently someone has fought for them. I was surprised and pleased to see them.

This image is stock from around 1990, but they look the same today.

I don’t know about you, but I wouldn’t discriminate against the foolish…

“I knew if I screamed I would give my position away in the house. And I wanted to see him first.”

She’s now gearing up to protect herself and her child from the accomplice. May God bless them and keep them safe.

Salon:

Our Constitution was written to restrict government’s power and to ensure our rights as citizens. I don’t care what a United States citizen has done, we are guaranteed the right to a trial.

Terrorism seems a cause just enough to codify such a venerated document, eh? Not when it means the military can arrest and detain us for… well, ever… on suspicion of terrorist activities. Are there homegrown terrorists? Yes. Do they deserve all the rights guaranteed them under the Constitution? Yes. YES!

What’s so difficult to understand about representation, a speedy trial and judgement carried out under the law?

And it breaks my heart that Allen West voted ‘aye’.