House vote permits guns in more places

Knoxville News ^ | April 19, 2007 | Tom Humphrey

[bamahead]

NASHVILLE - In a surprise move, a House panel voted Wednesday 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."

As amended, the legislation still wouldn't allow guns on school property, however.

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"We've been piecemealing this thing year after year," Briley said. "Why don't we just let you take your gun anywhere you want to?"

Tennessee's handgun carry law includes a listing of places where permit holders are forbidden to take their weapons. Briley has proposed an amendment that repeals a provision prohibiting guns "in or on the grounds of any public park, playground, civic center or other building facility, area or property owned, used or operated by any municipal, county or state government, or instrumentality thereof."

With very little debate, the amendment was quickly approved on a voice vote with only Rep. Janis Sontany, D-Nashville, chairman of the subcommittee, audibly shouting, "No!"

[Joe 6-pack]

Good for them! (Good for the people of TN, too!)

[Vaquero]

YEAH!!!!

ROCK AND ROLL!!!!

[clamper1797]

One good step forward in the task of taking America back from the socialists

[Lazamataz]

Some people “get it”.

[WesternPacific]

If licensed gun owners had the freedom to carry it would reduce gun violence. This is my opinion and some statistics I have read. If this happened and crime was reduced significantly, would we be the model for other countries to follow?

[clamper1797]

Unfortunately a lot of people don't

Fred Thompson in 2009

[Donald Rumsfeld Fan]

"go ahead..make my day"

[true_blue_texican]

This is a move in the right direction.

[metmom]

Yippee! I hope it’s contagious.

[MHGinTN]

To get a carry permit in TN, we have to take a course in gun safety, prove competence in the use of the firearm we list as our carry weapon, pass a background check to own a handgun, and renew this license each year. Why the hell restrict those who go through such hoops ... the criminals carrying weapons didn’t do any of these hoops, shouldn’t there be at least a few armed citizens to counter this ‘freedom’ for criminals to expect there is no self-defense from their criminal behaviors?

[Joe 6-pack]

"...the criminals carrying weapons didn’t do any of these hoops..."

< lib logic>Maybe ya'll should consider increasing the certification standards for criminals. < /lib logic>

[B4Ranch]

Have the lights just come on in a few legislators brains or is common sense finally being recognized for what it is?

[petro45acp]

BRAVO Volunteers!!!!!!

[MHGinTN]

Several years back, when I still visited a neighborhood bar for a few beers with buds, there was an interesting conversation regarding a shooting at a nearby service station. A robber showed up brandishing a knife, cutting a customer to get the clerk's attention, demanding money in the register and that the clerk open the 'night safe'. The clerk reached under the counter and brought up a .357 Python and blew the fool to hell with two roundsbefore the fool hit the floor dead as a door nail. Consensus of the buds was that the clerk saved the taxpayers perhaps hundreds of thousands and future criminal acts by the fool waving the buck knife. I still feel that way even though democrats in Tennessee have raised their fool PC heads to try and make the populace dislike handguns and become sheepishly dependent upon the LEOs (some of whom were among the buds having a beer back then) to protect us, knowing the LEOs arrive after the criminal(s) have caused death and havoc. We Volunteers still believe in self-defense and will extend that defense to our fellow citizens, if they need it. I do grow tired of the hoops liberals can create though.

[Joe 6-pack]

Those Python bites can be nasty. My dad carried one for years before his department switched to Berettas in the late ‘80s.

[rickomatic]

“As amended, the legislation still wouldn’t allow guns on school property, however.”

Don’t fall into the same trap as the anti’s did. Don’t feel good about this halfway measure. They “felt” safe in “gun free zones” (READ:”FREE VICTIM ZONES”). Don’t allow yourself to feel safe because they gave you back some of your freedoms. This bill still keeps schools as “FREE VICTIM ZONES”. The next mass killing will once again occur in a “FREE VICTIM ZONE”. Unless and until we are legally allowed to carry EVERYWHERE, “FREE VICTIM ZONES” will remain just as vulnerable to unabated attack.
The next time a bunch of kids are mowed down in school, I guess at least you can say, “Well...at least they let me carry in the park.”

[MHGinTN]

I guess I’m old school. I still believe that the safest most dependable hand gun to have at your reach for self-defense is a reel gun. Six .357 rounds delivered without a jam sticks in my mind as the essence of self-defense. If a person handles a weapon regularly, practicing every month with the auto loader, then the comfort to depend upon the extra capacity is better, but most folks just place the weapon someplace handy and don’t give it another thought until they need it. They probably don’t even unload and clean it regularly. The revolver is more forgiving under such circumstances. BTW, my home defense weapon is a nice 8-shot Winchester 1300 pump loaded with Buckshot ... eight .32 pellets each discharge is a stopper don'tchaknow.

[Joe 6-pack]

I once read that the average self-defense shooting incident involved something like 1.4 rounds, and I'm of the conviction that the so-called 'limited' capacity of a revolver is only a detriment for military or police usage. My preference for an autoloader is more for the ease of concealed carry than anything else, and a single stack auto doesn't really have that huge a capacity advantage over a revolver.

My choice for personal defense is a Colt 1991A1 in .40 S&W; however, any intruder would have to make it past my two german shepherds before I needed to make him part of my sight picture.

[TaxRelief]

Maybe I’ll send my kid to college in TN.