TNinfidel

It is posted above in the thread. Here it is again- https://www.facebook.com/pages/Maryville-City-Government/169766503036004     Posted a response to their censoring. Here it is again for when it will surely disappear-   "Censoring comments? There is nothing profane or improper in my questioning Mayor Taylor's involvement with Michael Bloomberg's anti- 2nd Amendment group MAIG. Is Maryville's city government that far left now?"

  No you do not have to like the page.     By the way, they deleted my and gun sane's posts!  Seems the City of Maryville is into censorship too...   Going to post it again.  

Ok, I posted this on the Maryville facebook page-   "I was just wondering about Mayor Tom Taylor's membership in New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg's anti-Second amendment group Mayor's Against Illegal Guns(MAIG).  Is money from Bloomberg's gun confiscation coalition, MAIG, funding this event?"   We will see if it is there in the morning.  Please feel free to lend a hand.

  Indeed they do.  I will post something up there when I get back home.  If anyone beats me to it that's great and I'll add to it.   https://www.facebook.com/pages/Maryville-City-Government/169766503036004

I was surprised to find this but it seems Tom Taylor, the mayor of Maryville, is a member of Bloomberg's MAIG. Even signed a letter to Obama supporting further restriction of 2nd Amendment rights. Absolutely sickening. http://www.maryvillegov.com/city-council-members.html http://mayorsagainstillegalguns.org/html/members/members.shtml http://abcnewsradioonline.com/memphis-news/2012/12/20/tennessee-mayors-sign-a-letter-against-illegal-guns.html Tennessee Mayors Sign a Letter Against Illegal Guns (CHATTANOOGA, Tenn.) -- Mayors from cities in Tennessee signed a letter sent to President Obama on Wednesday with fellow Members of Mayors Against Illegal Guns. Mayor Ron Littlefield of Chattanooga, Mayor Thomas W. Taylor of Maryville, Mayor A.C. Wharton of Memphis, Mayor Tom Beehan of Oak Ridge and Mayor Bill Lusk of Signal Hill all signed the letter urging changes in gun policy. The letter asked for the following legislation to be implemented: require every gun buyer to pass a criminal background check, get high capacity rifles and ammunition magazines off our streets, make gun trafficking a federal crime, appoint an ATF (Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms & Explosives) director, prosecute prohibited purchasers who attempt to buy firearms, ammunition or high-capacity magazines, require federal agencies to report records to NICS and repeal remaining Tihrt restrictions. Mayor Madeline Rogero of Knoxville did not sign the letter. Copyright 2012 ABC News Radio

Anyone call or email the legislators above on this?  I just found out about it tonight... :rant:

  Actually, it was a whole lot more recent than that.   http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/   I generally have a problem with any religion that thinks a mass murdering pedophile (Islam's prophet Muhammad) was the greatest man to have ever lived.

  Don't forget 1989.  It was the 1934 NFA, 1968 GCA, 1986 FOPA, 1989 George HW Bush executive order, and 1994 AWB.  Every one of them un-Constitutional and an infringement on the 2nd.  Anyone ever read Unintended Consequences by John Ross?

Harwell makes me want to puke. What kind of idiot would vote that tool into office. Our government is so thoroughly arrogant and corrupt...

I guess the latest is that Maryville and Alcoa cities went ahead and posted signs prohibiting firearms in the parks without the legal authority to enforce such a ban. The signs are meant to confuse and intimidate handgun carry permit holders and of course have no effect on criminals who would intend to do harm. It just tells the criminal element that they are less likely to encounter resistance. Perhaps I will give the cities a call and see what they have to say.

The signs in Maryville and Alcoa parks were only posted after those cities opted out. These were new signs not pre-existing. The cities did not have the authority to post them because the county had declined to opt out.

According to the Parks and Recreation site the Greenbelt Park is operated by them: Blount County Parks & Recreation Someone needs to bring them to task with the improper, illegitimate, and probably illegal signage. Maybe if they got the pants sued off of them for "civil rights" violations by arresting or detaining a permit holder they would have to respect the law and our Constitution. Progressivism is killing this Nation and Maryville and Alcoa city governments are prime examples.

I'm not quite sure where to post this so, I'll do it here. Many may believe Blount County parks (Maryville and Alcoa also) to be a no HCP zone. According to this, they are not. It is legal to carry because the County did not vote to opt out. TN AG opinion adds twist to Blount guns-in-parks issue "BLOUNT COUNTY, Tenn. (WVLT) -- If you have a handgun permit, you can once again carry a gun in all Blount County parks. Even in the city of Maryville and Alcoa where officials opted out of the state law. All parks in Blount County are operated jointly by a single parks and recreation commission with members from Alcoa, Maryville, and Blount County. According to a just released state attorney general report, unless all three communities opt out, guns are legal. Despite unanimous votes by the commission and council of Alcoa and Maryville to ban weapons in parks, the signs prohibiting carrying weapons placed in those city parks may have to come down after a ruling Tuesday by the state attorney general. "As long as it's registered, I don't see nothing wrong with it. As long as you have the right to carry it, you should be allowed to carry your gun. It's just like protecting your house," says Michael Ridley who supports guns in parks. All of the parks in county are run by a single parks and recreation commission and the opinion indicates all three governmental bodies must agree to ban weapons but the county did not opt out. That's upsetting to some city residents. "I just think that's wrong. It's wrong and it's dangerous. I mean people get real excited at these things and if they have a gun they might use it," says Mark Astor who is opposed to guns in parks. Blount County Commission Chairman Steve Samples says, "I think what's happened is that we've seen an issue that we all thought was settled come back before us again." The request for the opinion came from freshman State Representative Bob Ramsey who says this will bring bring the cities and the county to a single table. "This doesn't create a nightmare. It does create public discussion. It does create cooperation," says Rep. Ramsey. But a committee of the county commission has twice failed to get enough votes to bring the opt out provision to the full commission for a vote. "There's no need for any recommendation from me to the county commission because they've made their decision," says Blount County Mayor Jerry Cunningham. While some of the Alcoa city commissioners expressed surprise by the ruling, several commissioners including City Manager Mark Johnson said they were withholding comment for now. Meanwhile, Maryville Public Information Officer Pam Arnett says their legislative body was on retreat and unavailable for comment BLOUNT COUNTY, Tenn. (WVLT) -- Lawmakers in Blount County, Alcoa and Maryville must all agree to opt out of the state law allowing handgun carry permit holders to carry guns in parks, otherwise the state law reigns supreme, even in parks inside the cities' limits where council members chose to opt out, according to an opinion Tennessee Attorney General Robert E. Cooper, Jr., because Blount Co., Alcoa and Maryville jointly operate all of the municipal and county parks in Blount Co. "To prohibit handgun carry permit holders from bringing firearms into public parks which are jointly operated by two or more municipalities or counties," Cooper writes in an opinion released Oct. 20, "the legislative body for each municipality or county must separately adopt by majority vote a resolution prohibiting such conduct in the jointly operated parks." Maryville City Council and Alcoa City Commission voted to opt out of the state law allowing guns in parks. Blount County Commission, however, decided not to opt out. The problem is that parks inside the county and cities are operated by the Maryville-Alcoa-Blount County Recreation and Parks Commission that was established in 1987. Despite Cooper's opinion, handguns are still banned on greenways inside the Alcoa and Maryville city limits, because they are not operated by the joint Recreation and Parks Commission. In order to ban guns in parks inside Blount County, commissioners must opt out, too, just like Alcoa and Maryville lawmakers have. If nothing is done, the state law stands. It's not clear whether dissolving the Maryville-Alcoa-Blount County Recreation and Parks Commission is an option." Maryville and Alcoa still have signs posted prohibiting firearms but they are not legal apparently...

Yes, freedom and liberty are of secondary importance Mr. McCormick... /sarc off