A local business owner in New Jersey is upset after the South Orange Maplewood Baseball league rejected his sponsorship. From MyFoxNY.com:
Carmel thinks that it is because his business happens to be a gun store called Constitution Arms.
Carmel says, "It is fairly clear that someone has a problem with firearms."
The decision does appear arbitrary, to say the least. From the league's sponsorship recruitment letter:
Spring is around the corner and preparations are well underway in South Orange and Maplewood for the 2010 baseball and softball season. We hope to have your name proudly displayed as one of our team sponsors this year...
We are again seeking individuals and members of our business and professional community willing to sponsor a baseball and/or softball team this spring. Team sponsorship helps to defray the costs associated with the program. As a sponsor, team shirts are imprinted with the company or team name of your choice. Team sponsors also receive recognition throughout the year on the baseball and softball websites at www.sombaseball.org. and www.eteamz.com/msosoftball.
There's no mention of any "standards" or why a gun store that promotes a Constitutionally-recognized right the Founders deemed "necessary for the security of a free State" would fail to meet them. And if the "inappropriate for children" do-gooders want to chime in, Carmel has a point noting inclusion of sponsors that include bars, and those who use sexual double entendres in their advertising. I mean, as long as we're being rigid bluenoses, let's be fair rigid bluenoses...
There's probably nothing anyone can or will do about this—we're talking New Jersey here, so I don't expect outraged parents protesting or outraged sponsors dropping out to show solidarity. It's taken generations of neglect and manipulation, resulting in ignorance and fear, to get to where these people are. Don't expect most of them to pass anything on to their kids about guns but hoplophobia and hostility.
That's why we must redouble our efforts to reach out to young people who are within our sphere of influence. Like the song says, teach your children well.
It will be to their advantage.
New Year's gun rights resolution: Teach your children about guns
Is Major League Baseball's gun ban a 'no-brainer'?
And just for yucks, take the poll at the Fox News story.
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Don't get left behind
I've talked before about Sheriff Richard Mack's upcoming Ohio tour. It's getting close, so I thought I'd post a reminder from the Ohio Second Amendment Group:
What is the role of the sheriff in preserving that liberty from an encroaching federal government? What do YOU need to know to support your local sheriff? Come find out at the Sheriff Mack Ohio speaking tour.
Tuesday, March 9 Findlay, OH - sponsored by The Findlay 912 Project
Wednesday, March 10 Columbus, OH - sponsored by Buckeye Firearms Foundation
Thursday, March 11 Cincinnati, OH - sponsored by the Cincinnati 912 Project
Friday, March 12 Marietta, OH - sponsored by The Marietta OH 9-12 Project
Saturday, March 13 Akron, OH - sponsored by The Ohio Second Amendment Group
I plan on attending the Akron event at Green High School, 1474 Boettler Rd, Uniontown, which is scheduled from Noon till 4:00 pm. I do note the various sites are asking us to pre-register, presumably so they can get a handle on how many to expect. I hope those of you who live within driving distance of one of these events decide to make the trip.
Comments
I think one of the most important and innovative things in the USA is the right every citicen have . To have weapons in order to do their own self defense.This enormeus fact shows that the reality is not made for ever and it is changing.No one nation had donne this.European people can not do this right.If anybody want to buy a weapon firstable have to ask for permission to state.American people is corageous an pacific,very pacific.Exceptions are exceptions.
This is nothing but a measure of the success of the strategy the CDC's Mark Rosenberg, who pledged to "revolutionize the way we look at guns, like what we did with cigarettes... [as] dirty, deadly, and banned." The attitude you see among the sheeple in places like New Jersey, Massachusetts, and Maryland shows the sort of bigotry this approach can nurture. Heck, just this past week in San Francisco, people reported being more weirded out by open carriers who were volunteering to collect trash at a beach than they were by a guy who comes down regularly to photograph the people who sunbathe nude. In fact, the smutty little photographer reported being put off by the gun owners. Now that's Bizarro-world (but perfectly consistent with San Francisco).
This is a clear case of discrimination. The sponsor is not given equal opportunity to become known as a supporter of their sports programs. The state of New Jersey doesn't even resemble a US state anymore because of corrupt elitists with their own agenda and the apparent ease of the subjects to roll over and take it.
San Francisco = San Franfreakshow
Regardless, I think it was a great idea to support a little league team and I hope that more companies look to sponsor youth sports and teams. I hope that they don't get discouraged and still opt to buy a sign on the home run fence or scoreboard etc.
Cars kill more people in more places every day than guns do and they are just as reviled by the far Left as guns in general, yet car dealerships can still get advertising. I'd push until I could make a lawsuit out of it, just for the good stink it would make.
So, let me see if I have this right, @Henry Bowman--people who don't like guns and don't want their 8-year-old sporting the name of a gun shop on their backs are bigots? Odd interpretation.
Don't you flag waving, Constitution yelling, gun toting bigots understand? Guns are EVIL and the sooner we can get rid of them all, the sooner we will have utopia. After all, what purpose does a gun have other than to kill a defenseless animal or minority person? Are we all ready to hold hands and sing "Kumbaya" around the campfire?
(facetious mode off)
Sayswho- Of *course* they are bigots. They have an irrational fear and try to discriminate (and legislate) based upon that fear. Now, bigots should be free to discriminate against whoever they dislike for any reason, but it still makes them wrong and disgusting.
You would think that in Odama's "worker's paradise" that most any sponsorship would be welcomed. It's not like the economy is hurting or anything.
says who, Kent, beat me to it, but now you have been educated. Use it wisely or hide your inability to do so.
Sayswho says:
"So, let me see if I have this right, @Henry Bowman--people who don't like guns and don't want their 8-year-old sporting the name of a gun shop on their backs are bigots? Odd interpretation."
At one point my son's best friend was the Jewish boy who lived next door. That came to a screeching halt when the boy's mother found out that I was a gun owner. When he told my son they couldn't play together anymore the neighbor boy said his mom told him "We don't associate with gun owners".
If the woman had heard that I said my son couldn't play with hers because "We don't associate with Jews" she would have gone ballistic and called me a bigot, and rightly so. Could you explain why people prejudiced against Jews are considered bigots yet people prejudiced against gun owners are not?
Ironicly, despite my attempts to raise my son in an environment free from prejudice, he got his first lesson in it's evils from a Jew.
I wonder if these idiots would accept sponsorship from an abortion clinic or gay rights group?
Hmmm...maybeso Mr Carmel should sponsor an opposing team...
Oh my God, thank heaven he wasn't selling religious books and only sold guns. No telling what may have happened to him or his store if he would have been selling Bibles.
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