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The Center Square [By Jon Styf] –
The Tennessee Senate Judiciary Committee tabled much of its agenda on the second day of the special session of the Tennessee Legislature on Tuesday.
The bills that advanced addressed eliminating taxes on handgun safety devices, the communication timeline of criminal court proceedings to the Tennessee Bureau of Information and a bill creating a statewide report on human trafficking.
The committee tabled 52 other bills from its Tuesday agenda and does not have another meeting scheduled.
Several House committees also met Tuesday and advanced bills but the House Civil Justice Subcommittee received attention for another reason as the gallery was emptied after the audience applauded several times. First it applauded a comment from Rep. Antonio Parkinson, D-Memphis, about how he supported hearing all proposed bills during committee and then it applauded when Rep. Jody Barrett, R-Dickson, took a bill off notice.
“I want to hear all of the bills,” Parkinson said. “I don’t care if it’s a Republican bill or a Democrat bill. … Please allow us to just hear the bills and, if you don’t like them, just vote them down.”
Subcommittee Chairman Lowell Russell, R-Venore, then asked the gallery to be cleared from the room after asking the audience to stop clapping three separate times.
“About 1/4 of the room in Civil Justice Committee broke a rule and clapped in committee,” said Rep. Gloria Johnson, D-Knoxville. “The chairman made everyone leave, including the Covenant moms who are now in the hall crying. I know at least a few media folks were also kicked out. This is what fascism looks like.”
Senate Bill 7085, the handgun safety bill passed through the Senate committee, puts in new requirements to add safe storage training to future handgun safety courses and also eliminates sales taxes on firearm safes and safety devices starting on Nov. 1.
The bill also calls for the Tennessee Department of Safety to provide free firearm locks to residents upon request. The appropriation for those locks will be reviewed annually.
Senate Bill 7086 requires a clerk of the circuit or general sessions court to notify TBI of the result of criminal proceedings within 72 hours instead of within 30 days.
The third Senate bill to pass was Senate Bill 7088, which will create a new child and human trafficking crimes report from TBI’s human trafficking unit.
About the Author: Jon Styf, The Center Square Staff Reporter – Jon Styf is an award-winning editor and reporter who has worked in Illinois, Texas, Wisconsin, Florida and Michigan in local newsrooms over the past 20 years, working for Shaw Media, Hearst and several other companies. Follow Jon on Twitter @JonStyf.
8 Responses
Rep. Gloria Johnson, D-Knoxville, needs removed from office.
If people can not control themselves when in the building then they should be removed.
Taxpayers should not be liable for providing Gun Safety Locks. If they can afford a Gun they can afford a lock. Not taxpayers responsibility to secure other peoples guns.
One of the first things I do when I buy a new gun that comes with a gun lock, other than fix the magazine release that was installed backwards at the factory, is throw the gun lock away.
Vote them all out. Every single one of them. Sometimes that’s the only way to know you killed the problem.
As more violent crimes are being committed by juveniles we need another larger prison, same with women, 2 are not enough. The 30% average serve time is inadequate for murder and rape. Plea Bargaining must include the victim or their immediate family. Honest input. Memphis and the other Blue areas of Tennessee are putting innocent people’s lives at stake with their adoption of failed policies. A routine sentence of probation made possible some of the most sickenin crimes in modern times. In 1989, Jeffery Dahmer was convicte of drugging and molesting a 13-year-old boy. He had been previousl arrested for committing lewed acts in public. Dahmer could have gone to prison for 20 years but, ignoring a prosecutor‘srecommendation, a Milwauki judge granted him five years‘ probation and one year in the House of Correction “ under work release.“ Undetected, Dahmer had already killed five people at the time of the trial. While on probation, he proceeded to kill 12 more.Reminds you of Eliza Fletcher of Memphis. And Child Molestation needs to be more specific. RAPE IS RAPE NO MATTER THE AGE OR GENDER.
Chronic violent criminals neither deserve probation nor parole. If we take hundreds of thousands of additional criminals off our streets. And studies confirm that the cost of a new prison is more than offset by the savings for millions of new crimes that are prevented. The Penal Farm in Memphis is an 11-month 29 29-day facility, and serve time is 90 days for multiple Recidivists, many up to 60+ times. DUIs are served on the weekends, no matter how many times they are DRUNK DRIVERS no wonder we fear going into these Deep Blue areas unarmed. They are now invading Tipton County. No wonder we fear going into these Deep Blue areas unarmed. They are now invading Tipton County. We don’t need Red Flag Laws, we need prevention IN THE FORM OF PRISONS, EXECUTIONS IN A TIMELY MANNER, and JUSTICE. WE WILL SEE NO PEACE TILL THEN. Grief lasts forever. 200 drugs cause suicidal or homicidal issues.
We were in the Statehouse since Monday and saw the swarms of Covenant Moms there in full regalia. These women were some of the cleanest, best-dressed, pampered-looking, perfectly coifed, styled-up bunch of Princesses I have seen since sorority days. The idea they would shed one tear over being appropriately cleared from the chamber for flouting the rules on interrupting the proceedings defies logic because then they would sully their perfect presentations by ruining their amazing make-up jobs. Crying in public is very unattractive and these chicks likely would never go there.
Furthermore, I heard the flagrant misuse of the word “fascist” by this crowd everywhere I turned. I beg these people to actually educate themselves as to what is really occurring here with the legislative activity they have chosen to defile with their hyper-emotionalism, reptilian spewing of irrational rage and childlike screaming. (Yes, screaming. We had to leave because it was intolerable.)
I now have further disrespect for the left and their intentional twisting of reality to support a goal even they choose not to comprehend.
Thank you for that hilarious picture, made my day…
“The gun controllers are trying to replicate what happened in Colorado when the victims’ parents sued the gun shop that sold the ammunition used in the Aurora shooting in Tennessee. The tactics are similar. Get grieving families out front and use them as props, make sure they break some rules and get kicked out, film them crying, and make the legislature look bad for standing by the Constitution.
There’s this saying attributed to Aristotle that, ‘The law is reason, free from passion.’ The legislature is acting according to that, looking at the situation with reason, leaving emotion out of the equation. That’s their duty and they are performing it correctly, going so far as to tell the Governor they won’t tag along. But that won’t be enough.
To counter the immense political and manipulative media pressure they’re under, they need to point at the missing manifesto and refuse to cooperate until it is released. The motivation for this special session is to find solutions to prevent a repeat of the Covenant School shooting. But without understanding the assailant’s motive, how is that even possible?
Tennessee’s legislators need to tell the Governor, the gun control authoritarians and the media: ‘No manifesto, no new gun control law.’
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