The State House in Nashville did the right thing in overriding Gov. Phil Bredesen's veto of a bill allowing handgun-carry licensees to carry guns into restaurants.
With crime rampant all over the country, particularly in Memphis, the screamers and those who purport to say to people who disagree with their surrender-to-the-bad-guys that this isn't the 18-hundreds "we know best."
We know best, they wail. Well, I've got news to you: I think this bill, which the Senate will also override today, will save lives and decrease crime overall. At least it gives the citizens of this area, who are sick and tired of being told that protecting one's self is foolish.
These people, who don't like to listen to anyone outside their ring, trot out their best ammunition: law enforcement officials are against it.
Well, Rep Curry Todd says it best: "I can tell you now that there is a large majority of law enforcement officers in the rank and file, chiefs and sheriffs, who support this bill. When you (opponents) say 'all.' that's a misrepresentation of those who came to get on the bandwagon and on TV up here.
"This bill protects the citizens of this state who have handgun-permits. Memphis is number two in the nation in violent crime, Nashville's number nine and Tennessee's number six.
So I think the point is taken with our illustrous folks in Shelby County, and I hope everyone gets on the Comical Appeal tomorrow." Todd was referring to the Commercial Appeal's withering anti-gun stance in this debate.
The editor of the Morning Publication keeps saying he's not anti-gun, but I think any reasonable person knows Chris Peck is a fraud. Tell me one bill that deals with guns he supports? Go ahead. I'm waiting.
As for the late, awful House Speaker, Jimmy Naifeh, saying he's got a permit and something like 10,000 guns in his house, I say: Why did you have for years the protection of a Tennessee State trooper who was, by the way, carrying a handgun?
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Some people, and the Commercial Appeal, do not care if their views are correct, they merely want to have the last word. The proof of that is in the daily barrage of comments in the Commercial Appeal by a few readers and the Commercial Appeal itself, who keep beating this dead horse to death. They cannot rationalyze with any degree of common sense, so they opt for the last word using scare tactics, cartoons, and exceptions to the rule to try to prove their point. You cannot argue with drunks, fools, and children. And in this case, anti-gun people.
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