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Wow. One case in how many years, 10?

In that same span, how many cops have gone nuts with issued firearms and killed/shot someone (or their dog)? Per capita, I'll take my chances with a carrying citizenry over the fuzz.

Opponents of concealed carry have many arguments. All of them douchetastic.

that happened in memphis. the handgun argument concerns human beings.

The problem is with the person, not the gun. He could have used a tire iron, knife, rock, pointy stick, etc.

Mr. Woods,

Please put down the pipe, step back, and take a math class.

The operative phrase in this whole antigun rant is "...proponents of tighter gun laws finally have their Exhibit A."

One of how many thousands over how many years?

Pa-freakin'-lease!!!

More people have been killed by illegals driving drunk than by permit holder - why don't you run THOSE numbers???

Bias much?

Hmmm, take away the rights of honest law-abiding citizens to carry guns. That sounds like a winner to me. This way any criminal (these are the people that really look down upon laws and things like that) will know the person they are about to rob/mug/beat/rape/give-a-wedgie to will know that person is unarmed and the criminals can easily do whatever they want without fear of getting shot and killed.

It would make more sense to just give everyone a gun, then all the idiots like you would end up shooting yourself because you don't know which end the bullets come out of. And with that our problems would be solved.

Well, I guess the Lt. Gov can't say that anymore.

Now he'll have to say that one (1), in the more than 80,000 legal permit holders in TN, committed a crime.

Powerful "Exhibit A" for the anti-gun nuts. Next witness?

The state would like to call 79,999 of them, assuming they can take a break from their "wild west" activities.

The Nashville Scene seems to be pro-gay and anti-gun. That's as disgusting as it gets.

Actually this is right in line with the real "Wild West". With hundreds and thousands carrying guns all the time, there were very few murders in the "Wild West", that is until they started prohibiting wearing your gun in town.

It seems like my Dad's comment to me (more than once!) rings true.

The only true information printed in a newspaper?

Top of front page, the price!

Plus even that is suspect, they somtimes give them away.

If a CCW holder has to go back to his vehicle to collect a pistol? He just came out of a bar?
And one out of 80,000 in ten years? Sure!
Plus the outcome of the case is what?
Sounds like France, Guilty, till proved innocent.

We do better in Florida, the self defense shootings are up! Seems like the criminals are looseing, a lot. Charges? None.

Too bad this math-challenged "author" hasn't read the results of any prisoner polls. At least 34 of them, in one poll, said that their greatest fear in planning a crime is that the intended victim will prove to be armed. The gist seems to be that a lot of crimes simply don't happen because of that fear.

I also believe that if the author had a child in a gun-free killing zone where some loon opened fire, that he'd be praying that at least one of the students there had a handgun, and would try to stop the shooter. If such an attempt proved successful, he'd kiss the feet of the saviour the rest of his life.

I'd really like to know if anybody in Tennesee keeps statistics on the number of felons illegally carrying a firearm have fired in a road/parking rage incident. If they do, please show them to this writer. Am willing to bet the # is larger than 1.

Does he have any "common sense" ideas as to how to impact felons carrying guns? To hear it from the gun-grabbers, we need more common sense gun control laws which only law-abiding people would obey. Also, why in hell haven't they applied common sense to the 20K+ gun control laws they've managed to burden law-abiding citizens with? The CDC and the American Academy of Science, after exhaustive studies were both unable to discover a single instance where even one of those 20K+ laws has prevented a crime.

Polls range from as low as 600K to 2.5 million times per year Americans use guns to prevent a crime. Just how important is 1 alleged episode -- remember the notion of innocent until proven guilty -- up against numbers like that? Does the author think that the fact violent crime has decreased significantly in every state where "shall-issue" concealed carry permits have become law is important? Less so than this one episode of alleged misconduct?

I used to believe columnists were intelligent, maybe even open-minded. Ah, the folly of youth.

There will always be dumb people doing dumb stuff that makes it hard on the rest of us. Say what u will but one day someone with a permit to carry a gun might save your life on someone you know. Would that make a diffence then.

RE:..supposedly law-abiding citizens go armed just about everywhere..

1. In Florida to get a Concealed Weapon/Firearms license you have to:
a. take gun safety course/provide DD214 that shows military service
b. submit finger prints for FBI background check
c. send above, application & fees in to the FL Dept. of Agriculture, Division of Licensing.
2. I sent over 20 years in the U. S. Navy & swore to support & defend the Constitution of the U S. I’m sure the 2nd Amendment guarantees a god given right to keep & bear arms. The writer of this article is spitting on the U.S. Constitution. Did't mention Constitution in their rant. This is only one incident. How many people (80k) in TN have CCW's? Why did he have to go back to his vehicle?

Give everyone a gun the dumb ones will die off soon and gene pool will be full of the smarter ones.

I assume that the author of the above article more than likely is a liberal democrat. These are the same people who have spent millions of tax payer dollars to study bovine flatulance. The contents of this article are very much similar to the contents of bovine being studied.

this is so stupid