Thursday, October 8, 2009
Law and Order / Politics / Woods Tennessee City Parks: Enter At Your Own Risk
Posted by Jeff Woods on Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 11:23 AM
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The most outrageous acts by the TN legislature were the passing of the stupid gun slinging removal of any hindrance of guns in public places in the name of "protecting rights under the second amendment". At least if weapons are illegal people with them can be arrested and kept away from the mass of citizens who do not carry weapons. Of course, criminals will disobey the law - but hot headed people with guns will use them especially if they have no form of restraint for having them. The second amendment was meant to keep political entities from invading homes and taking property not the right to carry guns everywhere. The argument of the stupid emotional idiots is not valid.
Hmmm, no threats, no 'brandishing', no shooting; merely a "law-abiding citizen" (possibly feeling threatened by "some dude" who picked a fight with him) who arms himself against a possible threat. This is bad . . . why?
I pity the shiftless, low-moraled, less-intelligent residents of Tennessee. Virtually every other state in the Union allows carry in parks with absolutely no problems at all but it appears that your "superiors" in the media believe that you just can't handle it as well as even, gasp, Hoosiers.
Chip sez: hot headed people with guns will use them especially if they have no form of restraint for having them.
Jack replies:
I hope you don't spend much time in Las Vegas if you're willing to bet such a poor hand.
Florida, the first state to pass the new wave of CCW laws about 30 years ago keeps a very close view on those same people. Their experience over the past years:
Crime rates involving CCW holders has held steady at about 0.02 percent.
Now, that's any kind of crime including cheating on income taxes, which has nothing to do with a gun.
And 0.02 percent translates out to 2 people out of ten thousand. Not exactly the crime wave you are concerned about, eh?
Actually, out of the half million or so that Florida has issued they have cancelled 109. Virgina has issued about 50,000 and have cancelled none. Arizona has issued
about 63,000 and has cancelled none. Of course, since those reports came out they may have cancelled a few, but everyone gets the picture.
In Oregon only 4 people out of 14,000 (0.03 percent) have been convicted of a crime with a gun. In Texas out of a quarter million CCW holders only 100 have been
found guilty of a felony (not even necessarily with a gun). Again, that is only 1 people out of every 2500 CCW holders.
And in a column by Stephen Chapman of the Chicago Tribune he wrote:
Indiana, which has about 350,000 permit holders, canceled 921 last year, or about one-fourth of 1 percent of the total. Maj. Karen Butts, commander of the records
division of the state police, says, "I can't think of any that were revoked for a firearms homicide." Among Utah's 40,000 licensees, only five have lost their privileges
because of a conviction for murder or attempted murder.
And Tennessee has had this same identical experience.
BTW... all this can be found in the free downloadable Gun Facts book at http://www.gunfacts.info.
If you're truly interested in getting the facts instead of hysterical info this is the place to go.
The sky is falling the sky is falling, poor Jeffery the 3 dollar bill of of unethical reporters is fearmongering again. The sky is falling oh dear the sky is falling, but no one is listening to the chicken little that is Jeffery Woods as just like chicken littles claim, Jeffery's claim of murder and mayhem by licensed law abiding indiivuals is a lie!
Tennessee's media will never give up on
these catnip gun stories. They get attention and are easy to write. Hardily
any realistic facts are used just pick
any incident and then apply your opinion
and the story is ready for print or air!
I would certainly want to be able to protect myself too if I were threatened by "some dude" in the park.
Preach it Brother Woods! Tell it like it is!
Just because guns in parks haven’t caused a problem in OTHER STATES (or Tennessee . . . YET) where the citizens are educated and spouses aren’t related; doesn’t mean the uneducated, slack-jawed, hicks that are the population of Tennessee can handle guns in parks!
Yeah, first you trust the citizens of Tennessee to be armed in parks, and the next thing you know, they’ll be allowing black people to drink out of white people’s fountains and riding in the front of the buses! By the way, how do you keep your robes and hood so Downey fresh in the Tennessee summer?
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