NASHVILLE, Tenn. — It's been the year of the gun in Tennessee. In a flurry of legislative action, handgun owners won the right to take their weapons onto sports fields and playgrounds and, at least briefly, into bars.
That is from a article from Associated Press writers Lucas L. Johnson II in Memphis and Bill Poovey in Chattanooga Tenn. Being able to bring a gun into a bar sounds like there shouldn't be any problem there. What is wrong with this picture. What's next, it will be OK to drive drunk as long as you have a concealed weapon in the car.
A nationwide review by The Associated Press found that over the last two years, 24 states, mostly in the South and West, have passed 47 new laws loosening gun restrictions. And that is why the people who work here at Willie's World will be skipping those states.
Some of the new state laws that were pasted.
_ Arizona, Florida, Louisiana and Utah have made it illegal for businesses to bar their employees from storing guns in cars parked on company lots. Oh yea, there has never been a employee who has ever shot and killed other employees.
_ Montana, Arizona and Kansas have allowed handgun permits to be issued to people who have had their felony convictions expunged or their full civil rights restored. Where is the problem there.
Tennessee and Montana have passed laws that exempt weapons made and owned in-state from federal restrictions. Tennessee is the home to Barrett Firearms Manufacturing, the maker of a .50-caliber shoulder-fired rifle that the company says can shoot bullets up to five miles and is banned in California. Shoot bullets 5 miles, now you can hunt from the luxury of you own arm chair.
Now I am not for banning all guns, but what I am for is intelligent laws that govern the ownership of fire arms. Another paragraph from the article about a study about gun ownership.
A Violence Policy Center project has mined news reports to find that more than 100 people have been killed by holders of handgun-carry permits since 2007, including nine law enforcement officers. The project originally intended to list all gun crimes by permit holders, but there were too many to keep track of, Rand said.
"They shoot each other over parking spaces, at football games and at family events," Rand said. "The idea that you're making any place safer by injecting more guns is just completely contradicted by the facts."I feel safe knowing that I am protected from harm because there are all these responsible people out there packing heat and keeping the peace.
5 comments:
This right to bear arms business is an anachronism.
Guns are illegal here in Australia, and I for one am very pleased about that.
- Snoot
Hey Willie,
I have several people who work at my company that carry guns for hunting and some for protection?? One of the guys is from a military family, grew up in Alaska where carrying a gun in the wild was a so called necessity because of the black bears, and his brother is one of the top sniper shooters in the country. So for him the mentality of carrying a gun is commonplace and very safe as long as one knows how to use it. The tragedy of it is that recently one of his friends (military personnel) who was very trained, knows the safety rules etc. was cleaning his gun at his home when an irate, drunk girlfriend arrived, got into a tousle and somehow got the gun away and blew the "experienced" guy into oblivion. What a waste. Obviously this woman did not know proper gun protocol...No matter what I hear about guns and safety I just don't buy it. Loosening gun laws is a very scary proposition.
Mary
I always wanted to live in Australia,now I really do...
The NRA is behind most of these new laws. Instead of pushing their agenda in Washington they are now working in indivdual states.
Back when I lived in Denver, Republicans in the suburbs pushed very hard and repeatedly for anyone to be able to carry a concealed weapon w/out permit. People in the city of Denver proper (urban people) pleaded for the legislature not to pass the bill since they were battling gang violence, but it was absolutely going to pass much like Arizona's bill had passed months earlier. It was literally a week or two away from passage. But then Columbine happened--(2) megalomaniacal white pieces of suburban trash who with the help of a girlfriend bought an automatic weapon at a gun show and...well the rest is history. Thats what it took to "kill" the bill.
I'll never forget how the people of Denver proper begged for the bill not to pass and the total disdain that the people in the suburbs had for their plight. "If those city kids and their single-mother parents cant control themselves thats their problem." But then Columbine struck their own and thats what it took to make them consider. A-hole, dicksucker Republicans.
Im not a real big gun-control advocate. I support the Brady bill, but dont really go much further than that. But I know for a fact that this whole gun-rights argument has a racial subtext and when I see Republicans come out kicking and screaming on this issue I recognize the real message of intimidation that they're trying to send.
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