NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) – On Tuesday, a new bill passed before the Civil Justice Subcommittee, pushing it one step further. The proposed legislation would allow gun permit holders to “carry any firearms, rather than handguns.”
“'The idea of someone being able to carry any kind of rifle or high capacity rifles, is a concern for law enforcement,' testified Colonel Matt Perry with the THP."
Translation: "The idea of someone being able to exercise their rights, is a concern for law enforcement"
I say "So what if law enforcement is 'concerned'". It's an enumerated right.
I think TN is a great state, but there is obviously still some substantial government resistance to normal citizens exercising their rights.
It isn't actually an enumerated right. It is more properly thought of as a prohibition on governments from interfering with the right which did not need to be "enumerated" as if the Constitution provides a comprehensive list of our human rights.
I wish that Michigan would do the same thing. I can have a loaded handgun in my car with my CCW permit, but a rifle still must be cased and unloaded, in the trunk or inaccessible if there is no trunk. Having a truck rack with a loaded long gun was something that a few men in my town did all the time when I was growing up. And while not legal, no police, local or state, ever questioned them. I would like to have my shotgun, with a full load of shells, but none in the chamber, in a case, in the back seat. That is not likely to ever happen, with our Democrat controlled government. But if the Republicans ever take over, they are to weak willed to ever even consider such a move.
Stay away from Knoxville, Nashville, and Memphis, and you'll be fine. Don't believe everything you read - it's the bad shit that makes the news, not the good.
The 'Boro is quiet, but it has a spattering of Nashiville-isms" once in a while. Then again way too many long lost fields and too many people with backhoes
As a point of reference; in 1978 I bought a Winchester M1894 at the hardware store. I didn't want the box so left it there. I walked several hundred yards along the side of the main street in town carrying a rifle in plain sight with two boxes of ammo. No one looked twice, no one called the Sheriff (they would have been laughed at). This was in California.
The point is, what has been done can be undone. We've already seen that in how a peaceable civil society has become an open asylum of raving lunatics scared of their own shadow. But it also works in the other direction. Constitutional carry now in the majority of states and we're still going towards rationalism.
But isn't just in the gun culture. Witness the Asbury revival, as example. And I notice more and more people unafraid and standing bold to declare, Here I am, praise God.
When I was 14, 15, (1965) I would leave my house, cross the street to the El Cajon Valley High School sidewalk. Then with my Dads M-1 carbine and a bunch of loaded magazines in appropriate web gear, hitch hike (never waited more than 5 min) 5 miles to the hills on the east end of town. Spend the day hiking with the occasional ground squirrel running blast (never shot game animals), have a great time wasting WWII surplus ammo ($1.50 per box of 50). When done, head home. Once I even got a ride from a Deputy Sheriff. Was Leave It To Beaverland. Now going Pineland, tis a shame. California was once the Golden State, before the Prog/lefty/commies termited their way into everything. Stay away from crowds. RIP Ole Remus.
“'The idea of someone being able to carry any kind of rifle or high capacity rifles, is a concern for law enforcement,' testified Colonel Matt Perry with the THP."
ReplyDeleteTranslation:
"The idea of someone being able to exercise their rights, is a concern for law enforcement"
I say "So what if law enforcement is 'concerned'". It's an enumerated right.
I think TN is a great state, but there is obviously still some substantial government resistance to normal citizens exercising their rights.
Ed
It isn't actually an enumerated right. It is more properly thought of as a prohibition on governments from interfering with the right which did not need to be "enumerated" as if the Constitution provides a comprehensive list of our human rights.
DeleteI wish that Michigan would do the same thing. I can have a loaded handgun in my car with my CCW permit, but a rifle still must be cased and unloaded, in the trunk or inaccessible if there is no trunk. Having a truck rack with a loaded long gun was something that a few men in my town did all the time when I was growing up. And while not legal, no police, local or state, ever questioned them.
ReplyDeleteI would like to have my shotgun, with a full load of shells, but none in the chamber, in a case, in the back seat. That is not likely to ever happen, with our Democrat controlled government. But if the Republicans ever take over, they are to weak willed to ever even consider such a move.
I'll stay in MS where we have actual constitutional carry.
ReplyDeleteTCA 39-17-1307 or 39-17-1308 (a)(1). Both of those make it clear that carrying "for the purpose of going armed" is still a crime.
Want to leave it up to your local municipal tyrant to decide if you were trying to go armed? That's the whole fucking purpose.
Tennessee is a state where I'd feel the need to be armed at all times. Rather be where I have the right but not the need.
ReplyDeleteStay away from Knoxville, Nashville, and Memphis, and you'll be fine.
DeleteDon't believe everything you read - it's the bad shit that makes the news, not the good.
And Chattanooga. That place used to be nice but went feral during the Obama administration.
DeleteI can't imagine feeling safer than living and shopping in a rural Tennessee county. And I have a good imagination. Yes, I do.
DeleteI'd like to think mine is special in that way, but I don't think it is.
DeleteThe 'Boro is quiet, but it has a spattering of Nashiville-isms" once in a while. Then again way too many long lost fields and too many people with backhoes
DeleteAs a point of reference; in 1978 I bought a Winchester M1894 at the hardware store. I didn't want the box so left it there.
ReplyDeleteI walked several hundred yards along the side of the main street in town carrying a rifle in plain sight with two boxes of ammo. No one looked twice, no one called the Sheriff (they would have been laughed at). This was in California.
The point is, what has been done can be undone. We've already seen that in how a peaceable civil society has become an open asylum of raving lunatics scared of their own shadow. But it also works in the other direction. Constitutional carry now in the majority of states and we're still going towards rationalism.
But isn't just in the gun culture. Witness the Asbury revival, as example. And I notice more and more people unafraid and standing bold to declare, Here I am, praise God.
When I was 14, 15, (1965) I would leave my house, cross the street to the El Cajon Valley High School sidewalk. Then with my Dads M-1 carbine and a bunch of loaded magazines in appropriate web gear, hitch hike (never waited more than 5 min) 5 miles to the hills on the east end of town. Spend the day hiking with the occasional ground squirrel running blast (never shot game animals), have a great time wasting WWII surplus ammo ($1.50 per box of 50). When done, head home. Once I even got a ride from a Deputy Sheriff. Was Leave It To Beaverland. Now going Pineland, tis a shame.
ReplyDeleteCalifornia was once the Golden State, before the Prog/lefty/commies termited their way into everything. Stay away from crowds. RIP Ole Remus.
Only Part II?
ReplyDeleteNeeds to be expanded to "Carry Weapons"
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