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H.R. 822 – National Reciprocity
I have been looking over this bill, H.R. 822, and I’m finding myself a bit concerned.
‘Sec. 926D. Reciprocity for the carrying of certain concealed firearms
‘(a) Notwithstanding any provision of the law of any State or political subdivision thereof, related to the carrying or transportation of firearms, a person who is not prohibited by Federal law from possessing, transporting, shipping, or receiving a firearm, and who is carrying a government-issued photographic identification document and a valid license or permit which is issued pursuant to the law of a State and which permits the person to carry a concealed firearm, may carry a concealed handgun (other than a machinegun or destructive device) that has been shipped or transported in interstate or foreign commerce, in any State, other than the State of residence of the person, that–
Sounds pretty good, right? Well, I’m all for reciprocity, but I have an issue with a national list of CCP. Isn’t it bad enough that the state already has such a list, and news agencies freely publish that list? I don’t think I like the Feds being involved in our 2nd Amendment rights. “Certain concealed firearms”? What if they decide my little Walther P22 shouldn’t be on that ‘certain firearms’ list? Or my itty bitty 5 shot derringer? There is nothing to stop them from listing all sorts of carry weapons. Not to mention, they could make it almost impossible to get a permit. What government giveth, government can also taketh away! 
2nd Amendment
Don’t Be A Victim
Tennessee gun crime rate is among highest
The high rate is difficult to explain. Officials at the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation declined to comment, saying they didn’t collect that data and couldn’t comment on analysis the agency hadn’t performed.
Academia doesn’t offer much help, either.
“You would almost have to go in and look at every individual crime report across the nation,” said Don Green, executive director of the University of Tennessee’s Law Enforcement Innovation Center.
But Green offered three possibilities for the high rate: better police reporting, a large number of gang and drug-related crimes, or perhaps Tennessee’s high rate of gun ownership.
I’ve no doubt I’ll be accused of being racist.
I don’t know how much goes on Nashville, but we get the news out a Memphis, and I can tell you, 9 out of 10 shootings they show on the news, the accused is rarely white. And there is at least one shooting on the news nightly. Memphis is a totally Democrat run city. From little I know, it seems that Nashville is pretty much run by the Dems as well. Just sayin’.
The majority of legal gun owners are extremely responsible. We are less likely to attempt robberies, or assault strangers on the street for wearing the wrong color shirt. Anyone who tries to relate gun violence with legal gun owners are looking in the wrong direction. Gangs have become a major problem in the larger cities in our state. Drugs as well, especially meth, are a state wide problem. Combine gangs, drugs, and guns, you are going to find a serious upswing in violence. The statistics don’t seem to include how many of those involved in gun violence are legally qualified to buy and carry a gun.
Perhaps if our courts would use the death penalty more often, criminals would think twice about committing crime. Many times we hear about juveniles being used to do the dirty work because juveniles will get sentences a few years, and then they’re out. If a kid murders another human being, they should be sentenced the same as an adult.
Too many citizens have decided to be victims. It’s a conscious choice. Perhaps more legal, law abiding citizens should make the choice to NOT be a victim. If folks in certain high crime neighborhoods would join together, they could make the streets safer for their children. Instead, many have been so cowed by the gangs, they’re afraid to stand up. We should all remember, there are more of us than there are of them. Together we could make a big difference, and watch the crime stats decrease.
Gun Nuts and Skirts
Sell Them!
It’s now illegal for police in Tennessee to destroy guns they seize, thanks to legislation that became law last year. Some states, such as Kentucky, have been auctioning such firearms for years, bringing in an estimated half-million dollars a year. But instead, most police departments in the Nashville area hoard the guns, unwilling to sell them to the public, to the dismay of some legislators.
“Guns don’t pull their own trigger,” said state Sen. Stacey Campfield, R-Knoxville, who sponsored a stalled bill in the last legislative session to force authorities to sell seized weapons to the public. “There’s nothing wrong with them, they’re functional. This would just put it in law-abiding people’s hands.”
Rep Campfield states the obvious. But you wouldn’t know that if you listened to the anti gun rights people. Why shouldn’t the police make money to support their efforts by selling confiscated weapons to law abiding citizens?
Though his bill failed, Campfield said it “most definitely” will be pushed during the next session.
That prospect worries Jacci McGee-Russell. Her son, Marcus, 19, was shot and killed in 2008 during a robbery at a gas station where he worked.
“You’re putting back on the street guns that may have killed somebody,” she said. “Whether the crime has been solved or not, I think they should be destroyed. There are too many guns available to potential criminals.”
I’m really sorry she lost her son to gun violence, but it wasn’t a law abiding citizen that killed him. And the gun didn’t pull it’s own trigger. No, that was a bad person, with no respect for life or law, and no matter what, such animals will find a way to get a weapon to commit their crime. Criminals don’t give a damn about the law. You can pass all the 2nd Amendment violating laws you want, and that will NOT stop the evil. Law abiding citizens, who own firearms, don’t go around robbing convenience stores and shooting innocent clerks.
“We don’t want more weapons on the street. We don’t want to be the ones providing them,” said Williamson County sheriff’s spokesman Hugh Tharpe, whose agency has been warehousing firearms since it cannot destroy them. “If we could either destroy them or turn them in to state or federal governments so they could give us money for them, that’s what we’d like to see.”
Excuse me Sheriff, but where do you think the money would come from if either the state or the federal government paid you for them? Must be a flippin’ Democrat!
Kevin Cecil, a gun owner from Arrington, said a gun’s history is irrelevant.
“A gun is an inanimate object, incapable of action in and of itself. A ‘crime gun’ sold to a buyer that undergoes a standard background check poses no more risk of being used in a crime than any other gun,” he said. “The police sell the cars seized in drug raids, and cars are used more often in crimes than guns are.”
So, why not sell the guns too? The revenue could be quite impressive. And he’s right, the history doesn’t matter. It was the criminal who perpetrated the crime, not the gun.
Sell them!
None Of Your Business
Florida Bill Would Prohibit Doctors From Asking Patients About Their Guns
With a stroke of the governor’s pen, Florida is positioned to become the first state in the nation to prohibit physicians from asking patients if they have guns in their homes, a move some doctors say will interfere with health care.
The Florida Senate passed House Bill 155 last month by a 27-10 vote and the measure now awaits the signature of Republican Gov. Rick Scott. If signed, it would ban doctors from asking about the presence of guns or ammunition in the home.
Republican State Rep. Jason Brodeur, a sponsor of the bill, proposed the legislation following an incident in which a Florida pediatrician told a mother to find another doctor when she refused to answer questions about guns in her home.
Supporters of the legislation, including the National Rifle Association, say they’re seeking to stop doctors from invading their privacy. Critics of the bill, however, claim that doctors need to ask patients about guns to ensure their safety and to make sure they remain out of the reach of children.
Odd. I don’t see anything in either the classical or modern Hippocratic oaths that says anything about such an intrusion. As a matter of fact, just the opposite:
I will respect the privacy of my patients, for their problems are not disclosed to me that the world may know. (emphasis mine)
Respecting the privacy of others would include not intruding into their privacy. Not to mention that little thing called the 2nd Amendment, which gives citizens the RIGHT to keep and bear arms. Didn’t see anything in that either that states I, or anyone else, would have to answer such a question from a doctor. Frankly, it’s none of their damn business. Contrary to what many doctors would like to believe, they are NOT God. Whether or not there are weapons in a home has nothing to do with “compassionately and effectively care for children“.
Ignorance In Academia
Protesters against TN guns-on-campus bill get a win
“It very much scares me, as a faculty member, that the person in the office next door to me might be carrying a gun,” said Debbie Ingram, a professor of physical therapy at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and the mother of a University of Tennessee-Knoxville student.
Well ma’am, as a faculty member, which would you rather have? A fellow faculty member, armed and trained, or a crazed shooter, with NO ONE TO SAVE YOUR LIBTARD ASS?
“An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.”
~ Robert Heinlein ~
Ann on the Left’s Ignorance…..Again
What Liberals Don’t Know About Guns, Chapter 217
by Ann Coulter
Fresh off of blaming Jared Loughner’s killing spree in the Tucson mall on Sarah Palin, liberals are now blaming it on high-capacity magazines. They might as well imprison everyone named “Jared” to prevent a crime like this from ever happening again.
During the presidential campaign, Obama said: “I don’t know of any self-respecting hunter that needs 19 rounds of anything. You don’t shoot 19 rounds at a deer, and if you do, you shouldn’t be hunting.” It would have been more accurate for him to end that sentence after the word “hunter.”
It’s so adorable when people who wouldn’t know a high-capacity magazine from Vanity Fair start telling gun owners what they should want and need.
I Think We Need A Couple of These Signs
Or, how about a few hundred thousand along our borders? Just sayin’. 
The Reaction SHOULD Be Grief
Instead, Washington is working hard to implement more restrictions on our freedom. And it’s not just the Democrats this time. Yes. The assassination attempt on Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords was horrible. The murder of six innocent human beings is reprehensible. However, this is NOT the time to be scoring political points, for EITHER PARTY! But that isn’t stopping the weasels who supposedly represent us in Congress to go all out. Just one example: Bernie Sanders – socialist – is fund raising on the graves of those slaughtered.
The Daily Caller has Washington’s top five most ridiculous reactions to the Arizona shooting. While all five are seriously over the top, #5 proves, at least to my mind, there is no common sense in Washington, D.C. mindset, coming from a G.W. Bush speechwriter, David Frum: Since the alleged Tucson gunman liked to smoke pot, the federal government should impose tougher drug laws
After horrific shootings, we hear calls for stricter regulation of guns. The Tucson shooting should remind us why we regulate marijuana.
Jared Lee Loughner, the man held as the Tucson shooter, has been described by those who know as a “pot smoking loner.”
Seriously? That’s what Frum got out of all this? Is that tongue in cheek, or is he serious. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t think drugs should be legalized, however, I do believe that medical marijuana is a good idea. Ever had 7 day, throwing up, jackhammer migraine, that no prescription drug would end? And I’ll leave it at that!
Now, all these ‘proposals’ coming out of D.C. on the blood of the innocent are beyond comprehension, but that isn’t going to stop them. All the bubble wrap in the world isn’t going to stop an insane person from achieving his or her goals. We can look back and play the “what if” game, but that won’t change anything either. “What if” the police had put him on a 72 hour hold in a mental facility each time he had a run in? “What if” the parents had gotten him some much needed help? “What if”, instead of being let off with a slap on the hand, the kid had actually been convicted, at least once, for his ‘alleged’ previous crimes? Would THAT perhaps have prevented the murder of a 9 year old little girl, and 5 others? Maybe. Then again, maybe not.
The overreaction of Washington needs to stop.
Via Email
IS YOUR BUSINESS MORE VULNERABLE DURING INCLEMENT WEATHER?
TALLEY’S LOCK & LOAD in Savannah, TN just reported to TICS that someone tried to break in at their gun store around 3-3:30 a.m this morning. Mr. Talley had to go to his store after learning of the attempted burglary. He reports that he had placed some kind of film on his windows and it helped prevent entry.
I’m sending this advisory out to approx. 875 Tennessee FFLS. Those of you in Hardin County and those counties bordering Hardin may want to keep close watch on your stores. Sounds like this was an amateurish attempt at burglary, but one never knows.
I suppose the burglar(s) may have felt that it would be difficult for police to respond quickly if an alarm went off, and the time of night/day that this occurred would have meant less traffic out and therefore a greater likelihood of a successful getaway. Also fewer people up at that time of morning who might witness anything.
Douglas D. Woodlee
Manager
Tennessee Instant Check System
Tennessee Bureau of Investigation
FYI…you do NOT wanna mess with Claggett! 
Largest Army In The World?
America’s Hunters
The state of Wisconsin has gone an entire deer hunting season without someone getting killed. That’s great. There were over 600,000 hunters. Allow me to restate that number. Over the last two months, the eighth largest army in the world – more men under arms than Iran; more than France and Germany combined – deployed to the woods of a single American state to help keep the deer menace at bay. But that pales in comparison to the 750,000 who are in the woods of Pennsylvania this week. Michigan’s 700,000 hunters have now returned home. Toss in a quarter million hunters in West Virginia , and it is literally the case that the hunters of those four states alone would comprise the largest army in the world. America will forever be safe from foreign invasion of troops with that kind of home-grown firepower.
Hunting – it’s not just a way to fill the freezer. It’s a matter of national security!
Now you know why the liberal anti-gun group wants to take the guns away.
Shared by Jack.
Heh!
TEXAS PREPARATION
There’s old story out of Texas. Seems a guy cruises thru a stop sign, or whatever, and gets pulled over by a local policeman. Guy hands the cop his driver’s license, insurance verification, plus his concealed carry permit.
“Okay, Mr. Smith,” the cop says, “I see your CCW permit. Are you carrying today?”
“Yes, I am.”
“Well then, better tell me what you got.”
Smith says, “Well, I got a .357 revolver in my inside coat pocket. There’s a 9mm semi-auto in the glove box. And, I’ve got a .22 magnum derringer in my right boot.”
“Okay,” the cop says. “Anything else?”
“Yeah, back in the trunk, there’s an AR15 and a shotgun. That’s about it.”
“Mr. Smith, are you on your way to or from a gun range…?”
“Nope.”
“Well then, what are you afraid of…?”
“Not a damn thing…”
Shared by Jack.
To Quote Will Smith….
…in Independence Day…. “I have GOT to get me one of these!”
H/T: Jeff via FB
What Every Well Decked Out Lady Needs!
The vampire gun at the National Firearms Museum
Let’s say you need to kill a vampire – and heaven knows, they’re everywhere these days.
The National Firearms Museum has just the thing: the Vampire Hunter’s Colt Detective Special.
The revolver has a cross engraved on the muzzle, presumably to keep vampires at bay while the vampire hunter takes aim. It spits silver .38-caliber bullets, each of which is sculpted in the form of a vampire’s head.
And its coffin-shaped box, lined with sanguinary-red velvet, comes with a helpful vial marked “Holy Water.”
Now, you know, there is going to be one of those nights, when some Victoria type just wants to ruin your good time. How better to deal with the problem than with a bonafide Vampire Gun? Unfortunately, it doesn’t appear for sale, so perhaps you should come up with one of your own?
