The Attorney General serves the state, not the people…what law does the state enforce that keeps criminals from using guns to commit crimes? The three judge panel in Hughes et al. v. Lee et al. decided only two things: that Tennessee Code Annotated § 39-17-1307(a), (the intent to go armed statute which makes it a…
When then Governor Ned Ray McWherter wanted to rewrite the entire Tennessee criminal code in 1989, which changed the ability of non-criminals to carry rifles and shotguns from a right to a crime in one fell swoop, he did so with the assistance of Speaker Jimmy Naifeh who was his power broker. Speaker Naifeh wielded…
Civics classes were all the rage once upon a time; we wanted our general population to be appraised and informed as to the function of a republic, if one had to put life and limb in jeopardy to protect and defend it, they should understand they why and how. We seem to have, as a…
If you really are or want to be somebody in the Second Amendment advocacy world, you were there. The Gun Owners of America Leadership and Advocacy Summit just concluded this past weekend. Held in Knoxville, Tennessee for the second year in a row, it brought together those interested in advocating for a return to the…
The title of this post references a statement by then Senator Harry S. Truman as quoted in the Idaho newspaper The Soda Springs Sun, from July of 1942. It has gained a place in the sayings of our nation as being direct, and somewhat “snarky”. I do not remember him being “woodshedded” by the “administration”…
Well, one of many but clearly one of the biggest. The Oath of a legislator in Tennessee has survived intact in our state constitution, though seemingly less important than it should be, since the Founding in 1796. Originally constructed to read in the Tennessee Constitution, Article 9 § 2: It has fallen one spot in…
The Supreme Court of the United States incorporated the 2nd Amendment against the states through the due process clause of the 14th Amendment in the McDonald v. City of Chicago case in 2010. The Tennessee General Assembly, as a whole, has never recognized that the 2nd was made a Civil Right by that action. Let…
What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms.
