You will need your gun to protect yourself against these zombies in the Wal-Mart parking lot.
Parking lots are hell holes where we are all destined to die. That's the view of the National Rifle Association in a letter to House Speaker Beth Harwell and Lt. Gov. Ron Ramsey demanding passage of the guns-in-parking lots bill. The letter paints a terrifying post-apocalyptic vision of parking lots with rogue bands of criminals running rampant.
Publicly accessible parking lots aren't safe havens. Headlines remind us that muggings, robberies, assaults, rapes and even murders happen in these parking lots. That's why it is essential for law-abiding Tennesseans to have a means of defending themselves and their loved ones should the need arise.
In a bizarre twist, the state's Republican leadership isn't giving the NRA everything it wants on this one. It turns out the GOP fears the state's bizpigs more than its gun nuts. Businesses are worried that they'll get sued when someone shoots someone in a parking lot.
Here's an article on the controversy.Harwell and Ramsey are insisting on a few little exceptions to the bill, and they'd like it to apply only to people with handgun carry permits, not just any yahoo with a pistol in his glove compartment.
Republicans are all atwitter over the NRA's threats. They don't realize that by standing up to the gun lobby for a change, they're actually helping themselves politically with all but their far-right base. Here's the NRA letter:
