Cry Me a River

Boo freakin' hoo, Murfresboro's Daily News Journal says

Naifeh wrongly bashed over handgun bills

Naifeh used his position to override a subcommittees vote to move the legislation. The Covington Democrat shouldn't pull this power play too often, but this was justified because these were bad bills.

Any time the government closes records it does further damage to the people's right to know what is going on around them. The bill also would have made it a felony to publish these records.

In other words, Naifeh shouldn't misuse his power to kill bills unless it's the ones the paper wants killed so it can follow its anti-gun agenda.

It's not as if this information is highly sought, though. Only 18 non-media requests were made for these records over the past two years. One of those was made by a Murfreesboro man, Gene Kennedy, who runs the Web site LegallyArmed.com. Should the state stop him from using the Open Records Law to break down information about handgun permit carriers and lobby for gun legislation? No.

They really don't get it, do they? It's the media requests we're worried about. It was the media who published a list of Tennessee permit holders, not Gene Kennedy. Not the TN GOP, either. It was your colleagues over at the Tennessean that did it. It was them who prompted people like myself to contact our Representatives and ask for this legislation.

In other words, it was the will of the people.

As for the right to carry weapons into restaurants, we see no need unless someone is planning to shoot the chef for burning the steak.

Is that what you'd do if you were armed in a restaurant? Probably. It's a well documented fact that anti-gunners are prone to violence.

Me? I'd probably just complain to the waitstaff and go on about my business, hoping there wouldn't be another Luby's massacre while I was there. Of course, if I were to be armed, I could take the steps necessary to protect me and mine, but that's not important, is it?

This would be even worse than a failed bill that would have allowed people to carry handguns onto state park property.

There's simply no need for them.

Oh yeah? I beg to differ.

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