People get rattled after a mass shooting. It’s worse when someone you know is among the dead. When you’re someone who supports gun rights, it can be a gut-check moment, to be sure.
So calls for gun control following Nashville aren’t surprising. It happens and will continue to happen.
One coming from the Republican governor of Tennessee, though, is a little different.
Calling for red flags, universal background checks...
Some say there's only really one red state, and this backs that assertion.
“It’s not that we don’t have enough scoundrels to curse; it’s that we don’t have enough good men to curse them.”–G.K. Chesterton-Illustrated London News, 3-14-1908
Republicans.Hate.You. See2020.
"Avarice, ambition, revenge and licentiousness would break the strongest cords of our Constitution, as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." John Adams to Mass Militia 10-11-1798
Why is it when a politician says "We must have universal background checks!" that some reporter doesn't ask "how that would help when the mass shooter passed a background check?"
Never mind, stupid question, I know the answer to that one when it comes to the MSM
Judge Alito's concurring opinion in Caniglia v. Strom, 593 U.S. ___ Supreme court (2021) Said:
"4.This case also implicates another body of law that petitioner glossed over: the so-called “red flag” laws that some States are now enacting. These laws enable the police to seize guns pursuant to a court order to prevent their use for suicide or the infliction of harm on innocent persons. See, e.g., Cal. Penal Code Ann. §§18125–18148 (West Cum.Supp. 2021); Fla. Stat. §790.401(4) (Cum. Supp. 2021);Mass. Gen. Laws Ann., ch. 140, §131T (2021). They typically specify the standard that must be met and the procedures that must be followed before firearms may be seized. Provisions of red flag laws may be challenged under the Fourth Amendment, and those cases may come before us. Our decision today does not address those issues."
Great article by the Tennessee Firearms Association on our ongoing battle to avoid a Red Flag Law.
...The Supreme Court made clear that in order for a government to have constitutional authority to enact any law that might remotely impact a right protected by the Second Amendment, the government bears the constitutional burden as a condition precedent to enacting such a law to clearly demonstrate that the law or restriction satisfies the constitutional threshold standard set forth in Bruen.
Failing to clearly satisfy that condition precedent exposes the state and public actors to charges that they have engaged in Federal Civil Rights violations – which is what has recently happened to another law champion by Governor Bill Lee and where the state admitted that provisions of his 2021 permitless carry law violated the Second Amendment, violated the Fourteenth Amendment, constituted Federal Civil Rights violations and required the state (taxpayers) to reimburse attorneys fees to the victims of those civil rights violations.
This is not a time to follow a call to passing something, anything now to show the “mob” that Tennessee Government responds to emotional calls for gun control. Now is the time to determine first what constitutionally permissible options exist, if any, to deal with the risks on society by those who have serious mental health issues and how those mental health risks can be addressed without violating the constitutional rights of anyone.