The Tennessean today ran an article about the new convention center the city intends to build and I was HORRIFIED to see that the NRA is considering bringing their convention here in 2015. I just sent this message to the NRA...
I urge all the NRA members here to contact the NRA and let them know you have no interest in attending a convention in as gun-unfriendly a city as Nashville. They might as well just hold one in Chicago. Or NYC and have Bloomberg as the keynote speaker.
I read in The Tennessean today the NRA is considering holding their national convention in Nashville in 2015.
As my wife and I are both Life Members of the NRA, I must insist you not hold any conventions in downtown Nashville. We have an anti-gun Mayor and Council. The council, with the mayor's blessing tried to stop the restaurant carry rule in Nashville by threatening to prohibit it in any establishment with a beer license until Metro Law Dept. told them they couldn't do it. We have anti-gun restauranteurs that succeeded in bringing a lawsuit to get the restaurant carry law overturned and many establishments in the downtown convention district posted.
The Nashville Tourist Board is fighting attempts to reinstate the restaurant carry law, saying that conventions were refusing to come to Nashville because we allowed "guns in bars".
You can also bet that the convention center will be posted.
It's ridiculous that the NRA would even consider rewarding this anti-gun city with a convention.
I urge all the NRA members here to contact the NRA and let them know you have no interest in attending a convention in as gun-unfriendly a city as Nashville. They might as well just hold one in Chicago. Or NYC and have Bloomberg as the keynote speaker.