Thursday, May 14, 2009
Breaking News / Woods Senate Passes Two Gun Bills, Celebrates with a Song and Dance
Posted by Jeff Woods on Thu, May 14, 2009 at 9:13 AM
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He didn't reveal where he got this information, but Jackson said there's supposed to be 120,000 new licensed gunmen next year in Tennessee.
I believe that it's safe to assume that the NRA blast fax has his office on its distro.
Maybe he checked with the Tennessee folks who process the licenses.
http://www.tennessee.gov/safety/stats/DL_Handgun/Handgun/HandgunCarryPermitsJan2008-Apr2009.pdf
Jeff Woods, unable or unwilling to use Google, or just a pants-load hysteric about legal use of firearms? You decide.
"Isn't that reassuring?"
Actually, yes, it is. It's good to know that people who have proven the ability to safely operate a firearm will be able to protect themselves and their families - wherever, whenever.
I'm all for gun rights, though I think that making laws extending them to every corner of every county in the state, at the expense of doing just about anything else in this legislative session, is the height of stupidity.
But now that these bills are being passed into law, it's time to define exactly what the consequences mean.
I want to hear about instances where permit holders stop crimes from happening. NOT as a deterrent, which is a BS-ey way of claiming success (by that logic, every crime should be stopped by civilians if enough people are armed, which is nonsense), but-- like in the case of the liquor store on Gallatin a couple years ago-- when a specific crime is stopped because of a legally armed citizen.
On the other hand...
Every instance when an innocent party is shot because of a gunfight that ensued should be reported as a point of failure for this kind of legislation.
Every instance where a person is shot in our outside of a bar or restuarant by a citizen who is carrying legally should be reported as a point of failure for this kind of legislation.
Maybe crime will go down because legally armed citizens are in a position to stop them. But if there's an escalation of gun violence because deregulation of carry permits, that should be publicized so this political ploy can be demonstrated to have a consquence where innocent people are being killed and injured so the state GOP can justify its existence.
I'm open to evidence either way, as long as the evidence isn't the kind of bogus, unmeasurable crap that I heard in the debates on extending gun carrying rights.
And yet another in the one million and counting series of posts by Woods about the guns in restaurants that serve alcohol issue that fails to mention there are already about 30 other states that allow this and have no significant problems with it.
Of course mentioning such a pesky fact would be couterproductive to the objective of catering to the left wing kook base demographic that is the Scene's bread and butter.
"He didn't reveal where he got this information, but Jackson said there's supposed to be 120,000 new licensed GUNMEN next year in Tennessee."
Gunmen? How about "honest, law-abiding people exercising their god given right to self defense"?
"Gunman; A word sometimes used for a criminal armed with a gun." That's FAR from being what we gun owners are. Senator Jackson should think before he applies such a term to law-abiding people.
The senator didn't actually call them gunmen, Huck. That was me who called them gunmen when I wrote that. But the senator does sing a mean "Camp Town Ladies," doesn't he? That's him in the front there wearing the leather chaps.
DG,
Do the research yourself.
Woods,
Care to take a phone call so I can record and post it? :)
DG,
Here ya go: the "Civilian Gun Self-Defense Blog" collects news stories from all over the US.
