The Tennessee Firearms Association seems to need a lesson in sensitivity. Just four months after the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School that left twenty children and six adults dead, the gun group is raffling off the same model used in the shooting. When the executive director, John Harris, was asked if he thought the timing of the raffle was insensitive given the recent school shooting he said:

“These gun control activists, they can always pick the most recent event,” he said. “If you look back through history, there’s a long string of Newtown, Aurora, keep the list going. Under their analysis, you’d never sell a gun because someone got shot in recent history. But it has nothing to do with any prior events.”





Ironically that is exactly the point that we are trying to make, these shootings are happening far too often and we want to stem the flow of blood coming from the citizens who are dying at the hand of these weapons. We know very well that background checks will not stop them all, but if we can prevent an AR15 from getting into the hands of ONE mentally disturbed person who is on a mission to kill a multitude of people, we would have been successful. DUH!

What may be even more disturbing than the horrible timing is the reason behind the raffle. The group’s website encourages people, not just members, to enter to win in order to protect their rights and ‘resist’ the President and other assorted anti-gun boogeymen.

TFA is giving away a BUSHMASTER AR15 to advance the effort to resist Barack Obama, the federal government and even a few in Tennessee state government who are determined to destroy your 2nd Amendment rights!! Sign up now! Giveaway enrollment ends April 28, 2013!! You do not have to be a TFA member to participate – but we would appreciate your decision to join, renew or extend your membership.

The drawing is an “effort to resist Barack Obama?” Now, I don’t know what you thought when you read that, but immediately in my mind sprang the image of a group of crazy, Ted Nugent-esque, gun lovers banding together to take the president down in order to preserve their 2nd Amendment ‘freedoms.’ Of course, I’m sure the TFA will say that’s not what it means at all, and I’m the crazy person. However, given the number of times President Obama’s life has been threatened over the last few months because of his effort to put forth commonsense gun control legislation, this doesn’t seem too far-fetched. And there’s also the glaring fact that the vast majority of American’s support background checks and DON’T believe it infringes on the rights’ of the people of this country in any way. But as we all know, in the minds of the crazy right-wing lunatics, the country is always in danger of becoming Hitler’s Germany.

In addition to the TFA’s insensitivity and possible violence inciting language they mention that some of their very own Tennessee officials are determined to destroy their God-given gun rights!!! This is also, totally untrue as both of their Senators voted against the measure to expand background checks. When former state Rep. Debra Maggart (R-Hendersonville) was told about the raffle she said that it made little sense as the majority of the Tennessee delegation is staunch supporters of the Second Amendment. She also said that it may just be a way for the group to make money.

“This may illustrate perfectly what I’ve been saying all along: They create these issues to raise money. That just stokes the fire to frighten folks.”