Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Sen. Dewayne Bunch Defends Armed Wife Beaters

Posted by Jeff Woods on Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 4:52 PM

click to enlarge Sen. Dewayne Bunch: A leader in the women's liberation movement
  • Sen. Dewayne Bunch: A leader in the women's liberation movement
You might think it would be easy to pass a law in Tennessee requiring wife beaters to surrender their guns. We regret to inform you, dear Pith reader, that you would be wrong. This afternoon, Sen. Dewayne Bunch raised questions about whether such a law might unduly inconvenience wife beaters attempting to exercise their Second Amendment right to bear arms. In the Senate Judiciary Committee, Bunch wondered what it means under this bill to possess a gun. If your arsenal of weaponry is stored in your barn or on your fishing boat, he asked, is that possession? And would the wife beater have to surrender those firearms? "This seems very vague and ambiguous as to what possession is. It creates as many problems as it solves in that sense," Bunch said. Also, he asked, how's a wife beater supposed to know that he's been ordered to give up his guns? And once he finds out, how's he supposed to surrender his guns without possessing them? "It seems sort of circular in logic to me, that we would tell someone to go get a gun to dispossess himself of it," Bunch said, thoughtfully. Sen. Diane Black was probably surprised to encounter opposition to her bill and put it off for a while to figure out what to do next. Update: The committee eventually came back to the bill and passed it unanimously despite Bunch's many concerns.

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No bias here, Long live objective journalism.

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Posted by Kevin on 04/29/2009 at 8:59 PM

Woods as long people are calling 911 when their boyfriends won't turn over the TV remote, resources to stop wife beaters are spread too thin.
If you weren't such a Tin Man you'd get the picture created by falsely alleged (OPs) "ex-parte orders of protection" and how they're abusing the enforcement system with no repercussions.
Adulterating anti-DV resources with false and bogus allegations so much that cops and Judges can't tell dangerous situations from BS.
Because you don't get that picture you'll never understand why picking up guns isn't going protect anyone.
Thanks to Dewayne Bunch, cause he actually gets what you're too f.o.s to see.

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Posted by Tony Gottlieb on 04/29/2009 at 10:40 PM

How about Innocent until Proven Guilty here? An order of protection is NOT given out after a Jury Trial and as such is NOT a legally supported way to remove guns from anyone's possession. If you want to take guns away from 'wife beaters' then prove them GUILTY of said accusations in a Court of Law and as part of their punishment, they WILL lose the Right to Keep and Bear Arms.

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Posted by Richard on 04/30/2009 at 8:55 AM

We may not be as weird as Texas yet but we're right up there!

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Posted by sueyyyy on 04/30/2009 at 9:19 AM

As usual, Woods brain seems to be stuck in reverse. He apparently knows nothing of the Constitution's protection of innocent until proven guilty. He obviously has never heard of a vindictive woman claiming her husband or boyfriend beat her out of spite. He cares nothing for the innocent man so accused by an evil woman. He cares not that this will cost the innocent, falsely accused thousands of dollars to defend himself and thousands more to get his property back, if he ever can. He doesn't know that women abuse their men as often as the men abuse their women. Bottom line here is Jeff Woods is a shallow, simple minded fool who should not be allowed within 100 feet of a computer.

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Posted by Bill on 04/30/2009 at 10:46 AM

knows nothing of the Constitution's protection of innocent until proven guilty
Gee, I know nothing of it either.
Relevant passage, please. In a generally accepted version, not one that you've made up. (Hint: It goes "Article x, Section y" or "Amendment z.")

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Posted by Andy Axel on 04/30/2009 at 12:29 PM

That's an excellent piece, constantly good to understand much more about boating

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Posted by Arden Samms on 03/06/2010 at 6:55 PM
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