Sunday, September 13, 2009
Media / Politics / Woods Tales of the Bizarre: New York Times Praises Tennessee
Posted by Jeff Woods on Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 9:03 AM
Safety-minded localities in gun-friendly Tennessee have delivered a blunt and very welcome lesson in gun control to the National Rifle Association. While Tennessee's ever-obeisant Legislature has enacted a law permitting handguns in all state and local parks, about 70 cities and counties have voted to opt out of this latest lock-and-load obsession from the N.R.A.As the Times points out, the NRA is planning to try next session to remove that opt-out provision in the law, thereby forcing cities to allow citizen gunmen onto playgrounds and softball fields. This editorial is no help to legislators who might have been thinking about bucking the gun lobby on this. The New York Times is on their side? What's next? A commendation from the ACLU?
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Two facts for those who oppose this: first, many other states allow CCW in parks, and there have been no incidents.
Second, CCW holders are MUCH less likely to cause any problems than is the general public:
"Overall, CHLs are over 9 times more law-abiding than the non-licensee population, and non-licensees are over 10 times as likely to commit a major FBI violent crime (murder, rape, robbery, aggravated assault)." (CHL = Concealed Handgun Licensee)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2327914/posts
So if you really want to keep parks safe, you should forbid those WITHOUT CCW licenses.
-dan z-
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I have no problem with CCW in general, and I'm what some would consider a "liberal".
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I'm not opposed to HCP carrying guns in parks, but I do think that local governments are best suited to consider thier own needs. Most of them will have to defend thier decision with voters in thier own communities. What is appropriate in one part of the state may not be appropriate in others.
I'm not wading into another gun-control debate this time but Dan Z, never, ever use as your source Free Republic. Not if you want to be taken seriously. More than likely, those "facts" were just completely fabricated.
"Thank god the "Gray Lady" approves of Tennessee."
Well it really doesn't matter either way, since there isn't anyone at the NYT who has ever accomplished anything whatsoever in his or her entire life that proves that they are any wiser about what any entity of government should ever be doing about anything at any time for any reason or any circumstance than the people in Tennessee are.
Lord, I think it's lovely that the world's penultimate fourth estate organ has praised lil' ole' Tennessee. We now in the Great Volunteer State have become socially legitimate. Wonderful.
Problem is, small mindedness is never accounted for in the discussion. One of the principal additional issues for the NYT's could be that of Tennessee beer regulations. That would prob'ly put a hitch in their socially correct get-a-long. As it should.
Well, let us enjoy our ascent on the evolutionary social ladder. New York ain't got nothin' on us. They're just older.
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