Over My Dead Body!!

As a Texan, this News Article raises my ire as bad as Gun control:

By Alex Johnson Reporter MSNBC June 25, 2004 SEATTLE - It’s almost the Fourth of July, so it’s time once again for the Great Barbecue Debate: Ribs or pork?...
Seattle is a big outdoor grilling town. Long summer daylight hours stretching till 10 at night and cool temperatures lure legions of guys in aprons outside with beer, beef and briquettes. And the Fourth of July is the busiest grilling day of the year, according to at least 15 consecutive surveys by Weber-Stephen Products Co.

But as this Independence Day approached, Stan Price found himself being raked over the coals. He was getting grilled. You could say the fat really hit the fire.

Stan Price is chairman of the Washington State Building Code Council, which was all set to begin applying a new state fire code. Except someone noticed a provision that would, beginning July 1, prohibit the use of liquefied petroleum gas burners and other open-flame cooking devices on combustible balconies or within 10 feet of combustible construction except in one- and two-family dwellings or in buildings where the balcony and deck are protected with fire sprinklers.

Translation: No more grilling on most apartment and condominium balconies and decks.

No More Grilling?!?!?!?! They can take my Weber Grill, out of my Cold Dead Hands!!!

Three days before the Fourth of July. Cue the fireworks.
Newspapers dubbed it the “balcony barbecue ban.” As any self-respecting Texan or North Carolinian will tell you, grilling and barbecuing are definitely not the same thing, but never mind.

“Building code council feeling burned over barbecue ban,” read one headline.
“Stick a fork in it: Grilling is done,” read another.
“New code douses deck barbecues,” went one more.

Smoked out by the balcony grillers, the building council backed down. It passed an emergency amendment June 11 to delay the change, pending public hearings.

All joking aside, here is the real issue with this story: People complain when the Gov't wants to stop their grilling, but then passively allow the Gov't to take away their Constitutional Rights without even a whimper.
Why doesn't the Press and the People cry Outrage when they pass Gun Control laws? Gun ownership is protected by the 2nd Admendment of the Constitution, grills are not (although they should be - I am a Texan). American has been taken over by the Nanny-Pinkos and it is their mindset, combined with the apathy of the people that is trimming the tree of Freedom.
I just shake my head in wonder at people sometimes.

Mr Minority - Owner of a BIG Ol' Weber Grill and Several Guns