Constitutional Carry Advances in Tennesee Legislature – Liberals Lose Their Minds - Granite Grok

Constitutional Carry Advances in Tennesee Legislature – Liberals Lose Their Minds

Concealed Carry

Tennessee has a lot of liberal crybabies in it. Want to know how I know? Governor Bill Lee has a package of legislation walking its way through the Legislature that includes Constitutional Carry. It would allow any law-abiding gun owner over 21 to carry open or concealed without a permit.

Related: New England has Three Constitutional Carry States and an 18% Decline in Homicides.

If you are serving in the military, the age drops to 18.

The usual suspects are losing their minds. Police Chiefs, Police Associations, Prosecutors, Everytown for Gun Safety, and Religious leaders. And the complaints are the same ones we heard when New Hampshire pushed and passed a version here.

The anti-gun crowd needs new material.

  • Police and prosecutors for years have opposed the legislation, explaining it would make communities less safe and increase safety risks for officers.
  • Everytown for Gun Safety, a gun control advocacy group, found 75% of Tennesseans opposed or strongly opposed removing permit requirements to carry a gun.

Anything from Everytown is like saying people who prefer Burger King keep picking the Whopper over the Big Mac. No Sh!t, really?

The Tennessean isn’t much interested in anyone else’s opinion either.

They certainly didn’t venture to look at the crime rates in states with the same or less restrictive rules as those offered by Bill Lee. Up here in the high-strung hyperventilating Northeast where liberalism is a bigger threat to public health than COVID, three of the nation’s safest states have Constitutional Carry.

Crime is something you have in liberal cities where they disarm everyone but criminals and tell them ‘cuz they have the police – and then defund the police.

If you took crime or gun violence data out for even just a handful of major Democrat cities, the United States and its gun-toting cowboy culture is a damn peaceful place.

The Tennessean did quote this guy.

 

The National Association for Gun Rights called Lee’s legislation “faux Constitutional Carry” as Dudley Brown, the group’s president, railed against the governor’s “failed leadership” for not seeking to remove permit requirements for those ages 18-20 and for people carrying long guns.

 

Brown is right. The Second Amendment is your ‘license to carry.’ though it may be that the political waters will not tolerate that in the Volunteer State, and this is the next step in that direction.

I’m not familiar with Tennessee politics, but Modern Democrats are increasingly the same everywhere you find them. An invasive weed not indigenous to the Constitutional Republic that strangles freedom and whose constrictions need to be cut back repeatedly to ensure even the most basic liberties.

The right to self-defense is pretty basic.

If you can pass a federal background check, no one else’s permission is required. If you plan or intend to carry in other jurisdictions outside your state, then you may need a permit. Reciprocity is not universal, and covering states have different ideas about who they can trust and with what.

 

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