More Tennessee madness
In 2021, Tennessee Governor Bill Lee signed a “constitutional carry” law permitting anyone 21 years and older to openly carry a handgun without having to apply for a license.
That wasn’t good enough for the gun nuts running the state of Tennessee. This year three new bills have been introduced expanding the right to carry guns in public even further.
HR 1158, if passed and signed by the governor as expected, will change the age for permitless carrying of handguns from 21 to 18.
HR 120 would allow the permitless open carrying of long guns, including AR-15 style semiautomatic rifles and shotguns.
HR 192 would allow anyone with an “enhanced carry” permit to carry handguns and rifles into places where firearms are currently not allowed, such as schools, churches, restaurants and places of business like shopping malls and other public gathering places.
In a debate over the new bills, State Senator London Lamar, a Democrat from Memphis, said, "We are going to kill children. We cannot say we are a state that’s pro-life, for children, where we’re giving children the opportunity to go in stores and buy guns without any type of training or regulations."
"Anytime we can expand civil rights in this chamber or in this state, that’s a good day for Tennessee," the Republican House Majority Leader, Rep. William Lamberth, said in support of the bills.
The bills are expected to pass the Republican-controlled state legislature and be signed into law by the Republican governor of Tennessee, Bill Lee.
So, in the state of Tennessee, where this morning a woman carrying two AR-15 style semiautomatic rifles walked into a grade school and killed three children and three adults, the problem for Republicans isn’t guns that can fire 30 rounds of ammunition as fast as you can pull the trigger. The Republican legislature and the Republican governor are more obsessed with so-called “pornographic” schoolbooks and drag queen story hours than they are with murdered children.
Tell that to the parents of the three dead children and the spouses of the three dead adults from the Covenant School.
Where are the 1,200 Christian churches in Nashville on this insane gun legislation?
Silent - just like they are with Nashville's 1,200 payday loan sharks - one on every block all over town.
Nashville is a wretched, racist, booze-saturated sewer, crawling with bedbugs selling itself as tech-savvy "Music City"....A Bible-thumping redneck hell. Where are Nashville's 10,000 songwriters who might shed some light? 9,999 of them are trying to get a cut on Toby Keith's next album where he'll sing about the glory of getting legs blown off in Iraq, padding his billionaire bank account to finance his health-wrecking restaurants and their deep-fried, chocolate-covered alcohol-infused twinkies. If you want to buy groceries in Nashville you're never far from a Dollar Tree - stocked with 10,000 items all containing liver-killing obesity-generating High Fructose Corn Sweetener. Go to a Walmart in Middle Tennessee and watch 90% of the customers waddle around with 200 extra pounds of fat if they are not draped onto a motorized wheelchair. Tennessee isn't the Third World - it is The Fourth World where all the Capitalists are slowly killing their customers. Thump that Bible Tennesseans - you've been worked.
I'll worry about what drag queens are wearing when I see one wearing an AK-15.