Tuesday, April 7, 2009

Morning Roundup: Firearms Association to Fight Curfew in Guns-in-Bars Bill

Posted by Jeff Woods on Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 7:07 AM

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After 11 years, the guns-in-bars bill passes the House by a vote of 70-26. Opponents cite the rash of killings in recent weeks. Rep. Joanne Favors, D-Chattanooga, says the "200,000 to 300,000 people who have handgun-carry permits in Tennessee are a microcosm" of the overall population and there is no mental health screening for the permits. "The blood is going to be on your hands," Favors tells the House. The Tennessee Firearms Association says it'll try to to strip the 11 p.m. curfew from the bill in the Senate and send it back to the House for another round of debate. "If you're going to let a permit holder carry into a restaurant that serves alcoholic beverages, the risk to the permit holder going into the restaurant doesn't suddenly quit at 11 p.m.," TFA director John Harris says. In other news, Channel 5's Phil Williams finds sex offenders on the list of handgun carry permit holders. ... The University of Tennessee wants to lease forestland for gas drilling. ... A student group calls for the resignation of MTSU president Sidney McPhee. ... The Senate passes a bill to limit driver's license tests to five languages. ... Lawmakers consider delaying paper trail requirement for voting machines.

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"The blood is going to be on your hands," Favors tells the House."
What blood? The rabid gun grabbers at The Scene can only find one or two instances of permit holders causing problems and the 30+ states that already have this law on the books...they haven't had to worry about any "blood on their hands". What melodramatic horsesh^t.
You people are a joke and that's why we keep winning victories for the 2nd Amendement in Good 'Ole Tennessee...I am extremely proud.
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Posted by Kevin on 04/07/2009 at 1:38 PM

Guns in bars!!! Talk about trying to scare the sheeple. The bill is to allow legal handgun permit holders to carry there legally acquired firearm into an establishment that serves alcohol. Criminals never obeyed the law anyways.
Stick to what bands are coming to town and leave the real news to the intelligent, would you please?

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Posted by Scott on 04/07/2009 at 4:04 PM

Read this:
On October 16, 1991, Hennard drove his 1987 Ford Ranger pickup truck through the front window of a Luby's Cafeteria at 1705 East Central Texas Expressway in Killeen, yelled "This is what Bell County has done to me!", then opened fire on the restaurant's patrons and staff with a Glock 17 pistol and later a Ruger P89. He stalked, shot, and killed 23 people and wounded another 20 before committing suicide. About 80 people were in the restaurant at the time. The first victim was Dr. Michael Griffith, a local veterinarian, who ran up to the driver's side of the pickup truck after it came through the window to offer assistance. During the shooting, Hennard approached Suzanna Gratia Hupp and her parents. Hupp had actually brought a handgun to the Luby's Cafeteria that day, but had left it in her vehicle due to the laws in force at the time, forbidding citizens from carrying firearms. According to her later testimony in favor of Missouri's HB-1720 bill[1] and in general [2][3], after she realized that her firearm was not in her purse, but "a hundred feet away in [her] car", her father charged at Hennard in an attempt to subdue him, only to be gunned down; a short time later, her mother was also shot and killed. (Hupp later expressed regret for abiding by the law in question by leaving her firearm in her car, rather than keeping it on her person[1].) One patron, Tommy Vaughn, threw himself through a plate-glass window to allow others to escape.[4] Hennard allowed a mother and her four-year-old child to leave. He reloaded several times and still had ammunition remaining when he committed suicide by shooting himself in the head after being cornered and wounded by police.

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Posted by Aaron on 04/07/2009 at 4:09 PM

Suzanna Gratia Hupp is a fantastic woman and a champion of the 2nd Amendment...Anyone who scoffs at this video has no soul:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1u0Byq5Qis

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Posted by Kevin on 04/07/2009 at 6:26 PM

"The blood is going to be on your hands," Favors tells the House."
Utter nonsense.
There is no such thing as a collective responsibility for anything on this earth.

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Posted by Gilbert Martin on 04/08/2009 at 7:02 AM

It is obvious that Mr. Woods is no different than a large portion of the liberal legislators in the Tennessee General Assembly - Intellectually challenged.
Of all the rhetoric that is heard on gun control in and out of the Tn Legislature this is what bothers me the most;
While listening to all of the comments that were made prior to the vote on the "Restaurant Bill" (HB0962), not one liberal legislator made sense. There comments, and especially those of Rep. Favors, showed the same ignorance as Mr. Woods comment of "..drunken rednecks..". This only confirms that they have no idea what the bill is about, nor are they intelligent enough to argue their opposition to the bill much less hold the positions they have. I feel sorry for the people that live in their districts. Mr. Naifeh (ex speaker) himself, who fought to defeat this bill for years, made a feeble attempt at admitting defeat.
Everyone in this state should take the time to at see at least one house/senate session in order to realize what stupid choices they may have made with their vote.
Am I alone in this view?

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Posted by Legally Armed on 04/08/2009 at 8:11 AM
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