Wednesday, May 6, 2009
Legislature / Woods Senate Committee Votes for Guns on Playgrounds
Posted by Jeff Woods on Wed, May 6, 2009 at 3:03 PM
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"The Senate Judiciary Committee has just voted to open city playgrounds and state parks to handguns."
Excellent. An expansion of civil liberties.
"Under this bill ... licensed gunmen can stride around the monkey bars at Shelby Park twirling their pistols on their fingers if that's what they want to do ..."
Well, they "can" do that, just like any unlicensed criminal "can" do that. But lawfully? Absolutely not ... that is reckless behavior called "brandishing." It is unlawful, and carries criminal penalties.
Mr. Wood, if you are going to blog issues, it would be appreciated if you didn't flat out lie to your readers.
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Yes, Jeff, you are exactly right about what will happen.
Because it happens so much now in places that AREN'T state parks. I mean, I can't go two days without seeing licensed gunmen striding around the monkey bars at McDonald's PlayLand twirling their pistols on their fingers.
Interesting that the Republican-led state legislature has, so far, tackled restricting a woman's right to reproductive freedom, restricted the rights of gays to adopt, eliminated restrictions on handguns, but on issues like JOBS and HEALTHCARE and EDUCATION there's been a big, fat zero.
About what you'd expect.
Southern B, I was thinking that same thing the other day. In addition, I was wondering what we Tennesseans did that was so bad that we got punished by being stuck with this bunch of clownhole representatives. Fortunately we have a media that can demonstrate how out of touch the legislators are with their districts and presumably the same fate awaits them as Mr Bush. It fills me with hope.
Unfortunately for the advance of reason, fluffer, TN voters voted more overwhelmingly for the GOP ticket in 2008 than they did in 2000 and 2004. Tennessee loves clownholes -- the clownholier, the better. These reps may be out of touch with reality, but they're well in touch with the snake handlers who voted for them.
Good. If some nutcase wants to shoot up a playground or go amok with samurai swords there (don't laugh - it happens), the parents can stop the nut with a bullet.
The saddest sentence is about the goo-goo eyed look: it's so true and just pitiful.
...the parents can stop the nut with a bullet.
yes in wingnut fantasyland that's always how these scenarios end up, isn't it? Nuts never legally own guns, accidents never happen, guns never accidentally go off. Everything is always perfect.
Unlike REALITY, of course. Where most of us live.
So I'm guessing in your world, the proper resolution to this event:
http://www.wsbtv.com/news/19365762/detail.html
Should have been 10 dead college students, as opposed to one dead bad guy.
It is a Senate Democrat who advanced the guns in restaurants issue. It is the democrats who helped pass the restaurant bill. Only two democrats opposed the issue in Judiciary. So it show how out of touch you ultra-left wingers are with the rest of the state.
Yes, anonymous, I am out of touch with the rest of the state. That's why I choose to live in relatively progressive Nashville, and not somewhere out in the sticks. That's frankly not an insult to me. Southern Beale is right. It is far more likely that some accident will happen and innocent people will die or get seriously hurt than a bad guy will. You see it all the time. Yahoos running around on playgrounds, in parks, or on college campuses packing isn't going to keep these tragedies such as at VA Tech from happening. And I think it will lead to more tragedies.
