Posted on 07/06/2008 5:54:26 AM PDT by Wonder Warthog
Bobby Jindal signs bill giving employees the right to have firearms in their automobiles "on company property".
Good for Bobby!!!
For some reason I think he needs to run fast and far from McCain’s VP rumors...
Louisiana needs Bobby Jindal more than McCain needs him...
Now if we could only get our Texas legislators off their collective arses on this same issue...We tried it back in 2007, almost got it to the floor for a vote, but the session closed...
I think we have a good chance in 2009 to get this same type of bill thru this time...
Absolutly correct. Texas needs 100% Open Carry as well.
He does not have any authority to give that right - we already have it.
I've always contended (and still do), that an employee keeping a firearm in his car "is" keeping it on HIS (not the employers) property. It is none of the company's business what any specific "thing" an employee has inside his car, as long as said "thing" isn't taken OUT of the car.
As was said upthread---"Good for Bobby" (and, of course, the legislators who voted in favor).
Thank you, NRA. They’re on a roll.
Have you signed?
So like, where is that dude that always slams him on this forum?
Down with private property!
Louisiana is turning into "The Wild West". We can expect screaming headlines about plant shootings momentarily...
LOL---so true--whether such shootings actually happen or not.
Bobby Jindl for President!
Sorry.. my “a” stuck......
Bobby Jindal for President!
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“responsibility to defend their self”
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I cannot sign a petition containing such language as is displayed above. My fifth grade teacher would have gone berserk if I had written that line.
We can hope it makes it too a vote ! .........and passes !
How should this statement have been written?
I think he left after Jindal vetoed the pay raises.
abb, your Jindal commentary is anxiously awaited.
Individual is a single term. Has is the verb in singular. There’s no justifying the plural term their. That’s the first error. The second is to pair the plural their with the singular self. If you want to say their, you ought to say selves. And even that would be resoundingly crass.
The correct sentence would read:
Every (singular) individual (singular) has (singular) the right and responsibility to defend himself (singular) against unjustified threats of death or serious bodily injury.
Yours truly,
Grammar Police Superintendent
Well then, that does it for me. I'm removing my name from this petition. Those idiots will never be taken seriously. To heck with open carry.
;-)
The Nadal-Federer match is making me nervous ;-)
It has become common usage to apply the word "they" to mean "he or she", and to apply related terms ("their", "themselves", etc.) similarly. Your suggested construction with "all individuals" is the preferred way to avoiding the issue.
While I would agree that formal writing should avoid using "they" as a singular pronoun for a person of indeterminate sex, such usage has become sufficiently common in informal writing that fighting it is going to be a losing battle.
A bigger pet peeve of mine is the inability of people to recognize the difference between a lectern and a podium. A lectern is a bookstand. A podium is the area behind the lectern where a person would stand. Literally, a podium should be raised, I have no objection, however, to using the term to refer to the area that would be raised for the speaker were the floor not flat. Someone may take the podium, or go to it; one stands on it rather than behind it, however. While one may place heavy objects on the podium, usually things like books would be placed on a lectern.
1. Every individual has the right and responsibility to defend himself against unjustified threats of death or serious bodily injury.
When you write about a person of unknown or indeterminate gender, you write as if the person were male.
I’m not a native speaker. So these things matter much less to me. It does bother me that there appears to be a movement underway to eliminate the past participle from speech. Here’s the most common abuse: I should’ve WENT there rather than I should’ve GONE there. Another is the misapplication of verb tenses: If I WOULD HAVE KNOWN, I WOULD HAVE GONE rather than If I HAD known, I would have gone. Perhaps I should just appreciate that the alternative is: If I would have knew, I would have went.
I do think that people should me more attentive, though. This is, after all, the language of the constitution. It is, compared to most languages, very clean and linear. My father died when I was 12. My mother had to make property decisions but couldn’t do it by herself. She had to have his brother, my paternal uncle, oversee all details. In those days, they (my mother and uncle) never spoke or wrote in our native tongue. They communicated in English. Years later, I asked my mother why it was so. She said that it was because of the simplicity/linearity of the English language and that there are concepts which cannot be described in our native tongue. As a fluent speaker now, I am amazed and amused by the built-in deficiencies of all the other languages in which I am fluent. Obviously, this is the one I prefer and I remain sensitive to its lyricism.
I have it on good authority that this is going to be one of the crown jewels of the 2009 session...
Keep your eyes peeled...
Been out of town for a couple of days and just now getting in. I think Jindal was predisposed to sign this bill regardless. However, the scorching he got from conservatives over the PayRaise issue will further convince him he disses us conservatives at his peril. It's more likely he'll behave for the foreseeable future.
We will be watching.
One for freedom!!!
It was correctthought’s inquiry on post 9. I’ve read enough of what you’ve had to say about Jindal myself.
Why did you bother pinging me, then?
To direct you to correctthought’s inquiry and to give him the answer he was looking for. He did ask who it was who was dedicated to exposing Jindal. I pinged him, too. Perhaps I should’ve just provided the answer and pinged you on my response. Pardon me.
Oh, it really wasn’t that important. I was just curious, but like our “friends” on the left, I’ve moved on.
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