Way to go, Keel! Hit the nail right on the head! Sad, sad commentary from the State of TN. Please keep speaking out on behalf of all of us! God Bless you!
I am shocked, shocked that there is gun lobbying going on here. I’m not sure the Founding Fathers intended the Second Amendment’s right to bear arms to be superior to the FREEDOM of, “…life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”
I know of Tennesseans who personally have “ collections “ of hundreds very lethal guns and tens of thousands of rounds of ammunition. They are getting ready for a war. It is a sickened, very mislead society that we live in now and it’s terrifying than almost ANYONE can own and have such a military grade arsenal in Tennessee. They are out there in a number that is higher than you think. And They are not the most stable of people. I KNOW.
The Covenant parents & all who support them can use their next votes to choose new legislators. That will speak volumes…& they cannot be pushed away from the ballot boxes like they were the House Chamber.
The on,y recourse common citizens have is at the ballot box. Lee and the Republicans need to be voted out, along with the NRA that is pulling all strings.
Summed up so well. And while parents of the Covenant School and other victims of gun violence had to fight for seats, the lobbyists and press got half the balcony reserved for them (though press graciously offered to give that up, lobbyists certainly did not).
Are the names and employers of the gun lobby's lobbyists public record, and are the names of the people, companies or organizations employing the lobbyists public record, too?
Yes, indeed. All employers of TN lobbyists and TN lobbyists themselves must register here (can search by employer or lobbyist name...also can pull up expenditure reports): https://ilobbysearch.app.tn.gov/ilobbysearch/search.htm
Thank you, Keel, esp. for putting the spotlight on the gun industry lobbyists. The murder of our children has nothing to do with fidelity to the Second Amendment, but rather, the bottom lines of the weapons manufacturing industrial complex. Shame on them!
It seems pretty obvious that Bill Lee always intended to "do nothing." This sham special session seems to have been nothing but a pressure valve to let some steam out of the effort to stop gun violence. Message to the supermajority: it didn't work.
I am so weary of the clliche variations of "that won't stop gun death" arguments. For maybe 90 years this country has chipped away at reducing highway deaths. Over time we added paint to road surfaces, speed limits, road signage, seat belts, air bags, a penalty structure for violators, car horns, drunk driving laws and so forth. No one item "stopped highway deaths" but all of these things HELPED.
No one law or policy will stop all gun deaths but, just like highway deaths, virtually all steps would help.
The Speshul session which lured all the national gun confiscation activists nuts & money (hi Mr Bloomberg!) to town from their staggeringly high crime-rate cities...to come force a series of demonstrably failed ideas and shockingly backwards approach on all of us local yokels with the help of California refugee/transplants who came to town seemingly determined to screw up our state as bad as California.
The only black eye for Bill Lee is that he called this session. TNDP got another series of black eyes by revealing they don’t care anything about children because they don’t support guarding schools at least as well as they do the average high school football game. The only thing which the representatives of Antioch/Whitehaven want is to confiscate weapons from my elderly mother while simultaneously releasing rapist/murderers in the name of social justice.
Cry harder, party of Woodrow Wilson & Ray Blanton. Cry harder.
Way to go, Keel! Hit the nail right on the head! Sad, sad commentary from the State of TN. Please keep speaking out on behalf of all of us! God Bless you!
I am shocked, shocked that there is gun lobbying going on here. I’m not sure the Founding Fathers intended the Second Amendment’s right to bear arms to be superior to the FREEDOM of, “…life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”
“Unprepared” and “Petulant” are both far too kind descriptors for Lee and Sexton.
I know of Tennesseans who personally have “ collections “ of hundreds very lethal guns and tens of thousands of rounds of ammunition. They are getting ready for a war. It is a sickened, very mislead society that we live in now and it’s terrifying than almost ANYONE can own and have such a military grade arsenal in Tennessee. They are out there in a number that is higher than you think. And They are not the most stable of people. I KNOW.
The Covenant parents & all who support them can use their next votes to choose new legislators. That will speak volumes…& they cannot be pushed away from the ballot boxes like they were the House Chamber.
The on,y recourse common citizens have is at the ballot box. Lee and the Republicans need to be voted out, along with the NRA that is pulling all strings.
Summed up so well. And while parents of the Covenant School and other victims of gun violence had to fight for seats, the lobbyists and press got half the balcony reserved for them (though press graciously offered to give that up, lobbyists certainly did not).
And the angels weep.
Keel,
This is your best column yet. Thank you for your analysis and explanation of the travesty of the so called “Special Session.”
For the legislators who cannot find the courage to put our kids first, I hope we “Vote Them Out.”
Maybe some of these new activists will challenge these cowards in an election. Wouldn’t that be something.
Are the names and employers of the gun lobby's lobbyists public record, and are the names of the people, companies or organizations employing the lobbyists public record, too?
Yes, indeed. All employers of TN lobbyists and TN lobbyists themselves must register here (can search by employer or lobbyist name...also can pull up expenditure reports): https://ilobbysearch.app.tn.gov/ilobbysearch/search.htm
Thank you, Keel, esp. for putting the spotlight on the gun industry lobbyists. The murder of our children has nothing to do with fidelity to the Second Amendment, but rather, the bottom lines of the weapons manufacturing industrial complex. Shame on them!
It seems pretty obvious that Bill Lee always intended to "do nothing." This sham special session seems to have been nothing but a pressure valve to let some steam out of the effort to stop gun violence. Message to the supermajority: it didn't work.
I am so weary of the clliche variations of "that won't stop gun death" arguments. For maybe 90 years this country has chipped away at reducing highway deaths. Over time we added paint to road surfaces, speed limits, road signage, seat belts, air bags, a penalty structure for violators, car horns, drunk driving laws and so forth. No one item "stopped highway deaths" but all of these things HELPED.
No one law or policy will stop all gun deaths but, just like highway deaths, virtually all steps would help.
Let's see, should I get a gun to protect against librarians? Trans? Signs? Maybe legislators? If it's the latter, I guess I better get an AK-7.
The Speshul session which lured all the national gun confiscation activists nuts & money (hi Mr Bloomberg!) to town from their staggeringly high crime-rate cities...to come force a series of demonstrably failed ideas and shockingly backwards approach on all of us local yokels with the help of California refugee/transplants who came to town seemingly determined to screw up our state as bad as California.
The only black eye for Bill Lee is that he called this session. TNDP got another series of black eyes by revealing they don’t care anything about children because they don’t support guarding schools at least as well as they do the average high school football game. The only thing which the representatives of Antioch/Whitehaven want is to confiscate weapons from my elderly mother while simultaneously releasing rapist/murderers in the name of social justice.
Cry harder, party of Woodrow Wilson & Ray Blanton. Cry harder.