Adrian J. Gilliam Jr. sold gun to Kazemi.

Don't wait for the cop-out media to tell you, go to the sports meathead story at: http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=4336409

Lisa Clayton, Jackie Moore, Eric Stuckey: Nothing to say about keg parties and drunk drivers in Franklin parks.

If you watched the concensus meeting the other night, Lisa Clayton, Police Chief Jackie Moore, and Eric "Sunshine" Stuckey [two deliberations and counting] used the baseless, factless, uninformed, and emotional fear-monger excuse to lobby against law-abiding citizens ONLY.

Here's Franklin's logic:

• 'Kids and guns don't mix'
• 'Guns and alcohol don't mix'
• Therefore, 'kids and alcohol MUST mix.'

And here's what makes it O.K.: Pay the City Parks department $100.

It's bad enough Tennessee is No. 10 on the list of drunk driving deaths, and a person inherently has a 60% chance of being involved in a drunk driving accident anyway, but I doubt these three will act as quickly to prevent an alcohol-related incident - a situation far more likely to happen.

Let's really confuse Clayton:

Where can an adult Franklin soccer team go and play a soccer game in Franklin?

Answer: Brentwood.

Day 2: No shots fired.

Even though myself and my siginifcant other are Handgun Carry Permit holders, we suited up in bulletproof gear and bravely ... and I mean bravely damn it ... walked into one of our favorite restaurants ... turned into little more than a wild west saloon by the Tennessean and Nashville Scene.

Ohhhh ... God Bless! We made it out alive!

Actually, we enjoyed good food, good service, and tipped 20% - as usual. I'm telling you folks, as a foodie, downtown Franklin is out. East I-65 Franklin is in.

The best part about it: we weren't walking around picking up dog shit with our hands while branding law-abiding citizens as criminals.

Future Roper's Knob Limestone Quarry.

UPDATE: HERE'S THE LINK: Franklin aldermen defer vote on Roper's Knob project.

There's a little bit of a buzz under Kevin Walters' update on Roper's Knob from the BOMA meeting last night.

Walters quotes his "paper trail" in a follow-up comment under the article forum:

Now here's a copy of the deed provided to the aldermen, TDOT, and yours truly: "Access is provided to the bypass right of station 365+000 for the connection of Cool Springs Road to be built by the grantor. A future access is also provided to the by pass left ... for a future public road to be built by the grantor."

One small problem: the access grant may have been realistic when Mack Hatcher was a "by pass," but even TDOT has now changed the designation of Mack Hatcher to "parkway" and it should be recognized that the traffic characteristics and development layout have changed dramatically to the point where TDOT - again - will lower the speed limit of the "parkway" to 45 m.p.h.

Uh oh.

I'll get back to the goings-on in Franklin, a couple of quick thoughts though:

• I've never seen a faster online Kevin Walters update before last night. It does fit the Tennessean's law-abiding citizen disarmament agenda. Too bad we don't see any follow-up story on the gun that killed McNair, who sold it, what kind of gun, etc. ... or even the same expeditious reporting on Liberty Creek here in Franklin.
• I wonder what Reverend Barnhill's thoughts are on fee-based absolution in Franklin Parks, or any boozefest for that matter. All you have to do is pay money to Franklin and you get to magically booze down Main Street or have a kegger in a Franklin Park. No DUI checkpoints ... not a care in the world!
• It is amazing to watch the County and Brentwood take the Columbine/Virginia Tech gun-free zone approach.

Anyhooo ... I was getting a haircut yesterday at my favorite place, with a new girl though.

When the cut, shampoo, and everything were said and done, the girl leans over and slightly whispers "do you want those trimmed too ... ?"

I said those WHAT?

She whispered "Your eyebrows."

Uh oh.

Franklin Parks: drinking and driving O.K.

I want to make sure I understand this:

You're telling me, that all I have to do is ... pay a FEE to the City of Franklin ... under the auspices of some function and I get to drink in a City of Franklin park?

And then I get to drive out of a Franklin park after drinking with no checks and balances?

But somone picking up dog shit with their hands is scared of a law-abiding Handgun Permit Carry holder who may be jogging past them?

That's interesting, because I'm concerned about people drinking in Franklin parks and then leaving Franklin parks and killing someone - and - I'm extremely frightened by people that pick up dog shit with their hands.

Where were all of the gun fights?

I'm confused, I thought the idea was all of the law-abiding Handgun Carry Permit holders were going to turn into gun-wielding zombies and pick out all of the bars in places like downtown Franklin and Broadway in Nashville at 12:00 a.m. this morning and start all of these wild west and Dirty Harry shootouts?

Did I miss something?

♣ None of the BOMA has the balls?

05. Consideration Of Resolution No. 2009‐23, A Resolution To Prohibit Handguns In Public Municipal Parks, Natural Areas, Historic Parks, Nature Trails, Forests, Greenways, Waterways, Or Other Similar Public Places. Eric Stuckey, City Administrator.

Make sure you understand - this resolution will not increase police patrols nor will it instill any additional safety measures along greenways, trails, or forests, it will only guarantee, for example, a female jogger will have to fight off rapists and attackers with her fists.

The resolution unwittingly gives criminals another step up in advantage, while limiting the ability of law-abiding citizens. Plain and simple.

♣ More deliberation without debate: Ropers Knob road up for vote tonight

"We're hard-pressed not to allow it to proceed," said City Administrator Eric Stuckey.

1. Who is we? Another Stuckey Breakfast Club Committee? Stuckey should immediately identify the people he has already debated this issue with - I would suggest Stuckey not even be allowed in the meeting room during discussion of the item.

2. Stuckey is unelected - and has no vote - and the way I see this playing out, in my opinion, is that somebody is using Stuckey's unelected position to pull an end-run around public deliberation required by the BOMA and garner support in the background. This has the stink of the Reign of Terror Standard Operating Procedure.

I'm still waiting for the resolution/motion by one Reign of Terror veteran to have Stuckey's Breakfast Club meeting investigated ... oh, are we not doing that anymore ... only a couple of people you didn't like that needed a hatchet job?

Dear MS-13: Williamson County Parks are open for business.

With the MS-13 move to Tennessee, and even with Gang Activity Increasing In Franklin, what does the County Commission do: Update: Williamson County bans guns in parks.

Make sure you understand - this ban didn't do anything to reduce criminal activity - it only further restricted the rights of law-abiding citizens.

Essentially, the County Commission announced to all criminals these areas are now target-rich environments with prey that have no mechanism of self-defense.

Good job boys and girls - your maturity really showed through the fear-mongering.

Gun-totin' RE/MAX realtors.

From Say Uncle: “Don’t ever let your guard down thinking that it can’t happen to you ...”

Silverman's ship sails circles.

In Silverman's laughable 'The Tennessean' strives for truth, not TV plot line, it seems to me Silverman forgot to exclude the images of Dirty Harry and wild west T.V. gunfight movies his newspaper and dismal editorial board painted in trying to denigrate law-abiding permit holders. This story, is little more than a defense piece for their softball coverage of the McNair story.

And of course, Dwight Lewis can't write a story about anything without some far-stretching, nebulous parallel mentioning the NRA boogeyman and gun control.

You can do your own search for Silverman on this blog, including his wistful Gannett guidelines search for the truth spiel, but you won't see a story investigating the actions of the Metro Police and the institution of special favor the night they let the ... other owner ... of the Escalade go without being arrested.

Pure fictional scare tactic: Illicit gun sales hit new high

Viturally no in-depth questioning; throw in a few meaningless data points and you have a standard Tennessean article. No parallel of increased numbers to stepped-up enforcement or any reasonable conclusion whatsoever.

Listen to this BIZZARE diatribe from the article:

"There's a segment of the population that is nonviolent, and there's another segment that's immersed in culture," [East Precinct Lt. Danny Driskell] said. "There is a tremendous talk about violence in our movies, in music, in video games, even on TV. You listen to two rap songs, and I guarantee you that you'll hear something along the lines of, 'I got the gun and I shot the guy,' or something to that effect."

WTF? Can you still say stuff like that in this day and age? Did Lewis or Silverman even glance over this before publishing?

Forget Silverman and Lewis - that article just plain stinks from even a JOUR 101 perspective.

Mouthful of Glock.

♣ Hatchet-wielding kids.

I'll tell you what's hilarious in Leaders Elected take up gun issue as opposing sides cite personal safety, is that the fear mongering hyperbole surrounds all of this touchy-feely kid safety B.S. ... and then the A.M. story includes:

" ... four incidents in 2008 that included two robberies, one committed with an air gun, and two aggravated assaults involving juveniles. One of those arguments involved children armed with a hatchet and a knife and a second where older children were scaring younger ones [read as children] with PVC pipe and knives."

Sounds like Jackie Moore and Jeff Long need to be protecting the public from juveniles and kids. Anyway, I can guarantee you what my significant other would want when roller blading alone on the paths of Crockett and is confronted by a juvenile with a hatchet.

As a quick note to Walters and Burch: A "leader" is perhaps your pastor or family member who has, and can, give you guidance and resolution on a wide range of life issues for many years. The people in your article are not leaders - they are elected and city/county employees.

Leaders prop up the people that put them into that position - not lie to get into office and then abandon their constituency while they court special interest. Leaders don't make up phony excuses with 'kids' as bargaining chips.

Just because you're on the gravy train to retirement and got a position because there ... just wasn't anybody else to get it ... doesn't make you a leader.

♣ Pabulum.

Reading through the scant statistics, I never saw the leadoff crime:

"A hotheaded parent wields a pistol during an argument at a ball game."

I didn't see that crime reported among the statistics - the Dirty Harry anecdotal pabulum needs to end.

♣ Brockman still puzzled.

Commissioner Mary Brockman, who is sponsoring a resolution banning guns in county parks, was puzzled why Hood's arguments didn't elicit more vocal support to ban guns in parks.

"For some reason, on this issue, they're not swaying the membership the way they normally do," Brockman said.

This is easy Mary. If a person can't portray the shape of a few soccer fields ... IN EARNEST ... who in the hell would listen to the same moron about a 2nd Amendment personal safety issue like this?

Even though I don't agree with your position, I would suggest parternering with a different advocate - it would make you more believable.

♣ New park hash high.

$30,000,000 on new parks? Please ... this is little more than front-end puffing intended to dredge up a financial-sky-is-falling excuse to strike the issue down.

The County will not even build fields/parks for the HUNDREDS and HUNDREDS of men and women soccer, lacrosse, and yes, flag football players that are the ones paying taxes to the County --- do you really think they're going to build dedicated parks for a few kids so they can pull hatchets on each other and threaten other kids with pipes? (how's that for a euphemistic anecdote?)

♣ The Truth.

After reading this load of fear-mongering B.S., I'm going to McDonalds and get a biscuit, run by Publix to get groceries, do the recycling, and drop some letters off at the post office.

And yes, the truth is, I will be legally armed, following all of the laws - as usual. That's what law-abiding citizens do.

HRWA MIA.

Homeowners file suit against creek polluter.

Haynesworth gets McNair treatment and stern - and I mean stern damn it - words.

After causing someone to plow into a barrier, Haynesworth settles reckless driving charge.

Should be more like ... settles ... wink wink nudge nudge.

Committee already stacked on the front end.

Committee already stacked: Franklin seeks volunteers for new commission.

"The commission will consist of one city alderman, one employee from any one of the public utility companies, one representative from the Franklin Tomorrow Board of Directors and six citizens."

I would bet the reason these positions are already specifically designated is because it's already known who is to be picked.

See: If first you don't succeed, keep stacking the deck until you do.

I don't need a person from a utility company wasting their time on ... sustainability ... I need them to busy their day with ideas of keeping utility rates down.

And I sure as hell don't need a member from the board of directors of a local political organization that has accepted money from developers while the Vice President of the organization works in Franklin's Planning Department.

Here's what Jim Chittum is talking about.

For the two unpublished comments, as requested - here's what Jim Chittum is talking about:

"Hijacking the Public Process."