TimWisdom

The past couple of years have seen the Tennessee Legislature working on a variety of gun related laws. Much of this work is to loosen restrictions created more than a dozen years ago when Tennessee finally passed its Handgun Carry Permit legislation. While these new laws are an improvement, for the most part, they’re creating something of a hodgepodge that will soon become difficult to decipher. To keep this from happening, I propose a new law that will simplify and clarify the current code... Read Full Story

The second paragraph to the Declaration of Independence begins; We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness . When the Founding Fathers wrote "We hold these truths to be self-evident" they meant that they were so obvious, everyone could understand them. When they wrote of "unalienable rights" they meant no one could take... Read Full Story

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The past couple of years have seen the Tennessee Legislature working on a variety of gun related laws. Much of this work is to loosen restrictions created more than a dozen years ago when Tennessee finally passed its Handgun Carry Permit legislation. While these new laws are an improvement, for the most part, they’re creating something of a hodgepodge that will soon become difficult to decipher. To keep this from happening, I propose a new law that will simplify and clarify the current code... Read Full Story

The past couple of years have seen the Tennessee Legislature working on a variety of gun related laws. Much of this work is to loosen restrictions created more than a dozen years ago when Tennessee finally passed its Handgun Carry Permit legislation. While these new laws are an improvement, for the most part, they’re creating something of a hodgepodge that will soon become difficult to decipher. To keep this from happening, I propose a new law that will simplify and clarify the current code... Read Full Story

Since Arizona passed law number 1070, there’s been an increase in the public discussion of illegal immigration. I’ve seen, listened to and read many of those discussions and notice that no one provides a good analogy of the problem. Many discussions about illegal immigration leave out the word illegal in an attempt to get people thinking about the policies while ignoring the crime. Before I get too far into this subject, let me give a little family history. My mothers side of the family are... Read Full Story

Since Arizona passed law number 1070, there’s been an increase in the public discussion of illegal immigration. I’ve seen, listened to and read many of those discussions and notice that no one provides a good analogy of the problem. Many discussions about illegal immigration leave out the word illegal in an attempt to get people thinking about the policies while ignoring the crime. Before I get too far into this subject, let me give a little family history. My mothers side of the family are... Read Full Story

The second paragraph to the Declaration of Independence begins; We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness . When the Founding Fathers wrote “We hold these truths to be self-evident” they meant that they were so obvious, everyone could understand them. When they wrote of “unalienable rights” they meant no one could take them away... Read Full Story

The second paragraph to the Declaration of Independence begins; We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness . When the Founding Fathers wrote “We hold these truths to be self-evident” they meant that they were so obvious, everyone could understand them. When they wrote of “unalienable rights” they meant no one could take them away... Read Full Story

I was just reading about the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) ruling in the case of a man charged with “improperly” storing a hunting rifle in his Billerica home. The SJC said, “the Second Amendment imposes no limitations on the ability of the Massachusetts Legislature to regulate the possession of firearms and ammunition.”. This, despite the SCOTUS ruling in the Heller case in 2008. Massachusetts law requires guns to be kept in a locked container or equipped with a trigger lock... Read Full Story