Tennessee's response to shootings: allow CCW in public places.

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http://www.knoxnews.com/kns/state/article/0,1406,KNS_348_5491437,00.html

TN moves to allow guns in public buildings
By News Sentinel staff
April 18, 2007


NASHVILLE — In a surprise move, a House panel voted today to repeal a state law that forbids the carrying of handguns on property and buildings owned by state, county and city governments — including parks and playgrounds.


"I think the recent Virginia disaster — or catastrophe or nightmare or whatever you want to call it — has woken up a lot of people to the need for having guns available to law-abiding citizens," said Rep. Frank Niceley, R-Strawberry Plains. "I hope that is what this vote reflects."

Read the full story in Thursday’s News Sentinel.
 
'Bout time! Hopefully this will go somewhere. And hopefully other states that restrict CCW in public places will follow suit.
 
Go Vols! (I was born in Franklin Co. and BLEED orange)

I would love to see National reciprocity come out of this with a prohibition against barring guns from public buildings.
 
Good. The people need to protect themselves against would be assailaints like they did in the 2002 Appalachain Law school shootings. That shooting would have been much worse if not for a few students going back to their trucks and getting their guns.
 
Are we all cheering because a bunch of students died and now we can push our agendas? Let's not become a bunch of Carolyn McCarthys.

It's about time, but let's be mindful of our reactions.
 
We're cheering because TN has stood up for self defense.

I'm tired of this "political agenda" crap. My 'political agenda' is inextricable from my personal beliefs. That is, I believe that it's immoral to attempt to take away a person's right to self-defense and limit access to the most useful tool for that purpose. 32 people slaughtered because the university denied them their God-given rights makes me sick to my stomach and makes me angry beyond belief all at the same time.

Calling it a 'political agenda' belittles what I feel very strongly about and demeans my attempts to lobby for and protect the rights of all Americans.

DAMN RIGHT I'm pushing my political agenda. I believe it's the right thing for this country and the right time is right now!
 
The time for gun rights is always.

I just don't want to use the VT massacre as an excuse to push laws. It's a low blow move that you'd expect someone like Boxer, Feinstein, or McCarthy would do.
 
This is a perfect example of why we need not shy away from using emotion in forwarding a just cause.

Use Truth and Don't Lie.

Use Facts and Don't Distort.

Use Emotion but Don't Revel in Tragedy.

Using the tragedy of VT to forward legislation that is logical and may save lives is in no way a deemening of that tragedy and we should feel no guilt for it. Nobody is glad VT happenned to gain this step forward but it would be dishonest to say it didn't motivate peolpe to make the right decision.
 
If 32 innocent people had to die in this terrible tragedy to illustrate just how ineffective unarmed defense is against a determined and armed attacker, then we would be negligent and wasteful not to take every reasonable advantage of this opportunity to bring to the attention of the general public the practical and predictable consequences of gun control laws.

VT was never a "gun free zone", it was only a "gun prohibition zone" and no evil man bent on carnage and self destruction will ever be dissuaded from the use of guns by any laws criminalizing the same.

At least one legislator in Tennessee appears to have learned this truth so vividly demonstrated in the crimson blood of inocent students and dedicated faculty. To celebrate such a victory over ignorance is not to denigrate or cheapen those lives that have been so viscously taken, precious lives that might have been preserved by a more sensible VT policy toward guns. What meaning can be found in this tragedy if people do not glean any wisdom from the horrible event? The proposed legislation in Tennessee brings forth a wellspring of hope within my heart that at least some few people will take meaningful, practical and appropriate actions to help forestall similar events in the future.

Most Respectfully,
Richard
 
Hopefully this tragedy will lead people to take responsibility for their own protection and insist that they be allowed to do so.

Nobody is jumping in joy here, people are just glad to see some good come from something so bad. Sometimes it takes the worst happening for people to wake up.
 
That's just a bad idea on many levels. There are some places guns are better left at home but let's suppose it passes and students 21 or older get a carry permit and schools allow them to attend classes. Stats will be kept which they will make available to prospective students choosing a college who will wonder why anyone feels unsafe in that school without a gun so they enroll somewhere else. Just from an economic standpoint, it would be a bad idea not to mention accidents and spur of the momment shootings we'd be reading about. Everyone is acting like school shootings are an epidemic when they're not. They're the exception. Thirty-two people are probably shot every day in homes and streets across the country. That's where guns belong. I would not attend a school where kids were toting guns unless it was a Montgomery College gunsmithing class.
 
That's just a bad idea on many levels. There are some places guns are better left at home but let's suppose it passes and students 21 or older get a carry permit and schools allow them to attend classes. Stats will be kept which they will make available to prospective students choosing a college who will wonder why anyone feels unsafe in that school without a gun so they enroll somewhere else. Just from an economic standpoint, it would be a bad idea not to mention accidents and spur of the momment shootings we'd be reading about. Everyone is acting like school shootings are an epidemic when they're not. They're the exception. Thirty-two people are probably shot every day in homes and streets across the country. That's where guns belong. I would not attend a school where kids were toting guns unless it was a Montgomery College gunsmithing class.
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I pity your narrow-minded view. 32 kids get killed and you want to rob the rest of the defenseless masses of their God-given right to defend themselves.

Truly sad. :(
 
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