tennessee legislature actually voted for this change for this amendment. it s in the bill now. what they were able to bring themselves to pass is this. this language with their new law, a ban on squirt guns. it s a ban on fake guns toy guns things like squirt guns would be banned specifically anywhere near tennessee schools. no squirt guns no fake guns within 150 feet of tennessee schools. real guns are still okay. but squirt guns and toy guns would be illegal outside of schools under the new law. the ows sentencible reason was to respond to the rambo guy. he s actually carrying real guns, so he would still be okay to keep doing what he s doing under the new law. if your plan was to stop that guy with a super soaker you would be a criminal now, not
but when they host their big nra concert this weekend in nashville, when they host jeff foxworthy doing his comedy thing and alan jackson doing a country show at the convention, no guns will be allowed at those events. wouldn t be safe. they also will not allow any of the exhibiters at the convention, the people laying out those nine acres of gun, they will not allow any of those guns to be operational. they are mandating to all their convention exhibitors to physically remove the firing pins from all the weapons so none of them will be operational. again, wouldn t be safe. at the same time, though, that s not just that s not kind of a blanket prohibition that they re putting over everything at their event. it s not like a local law requires them to do this. it s not like they ve got a no guns rule at every location for the nra convention where they re hosting these 70,000 gun-owning conventiongoers. it s not a blanket rule.
bringing 70,000 people to our state, with all the republican presidential contenders, right? as long as we re having gun week, and we re doing gun stop, there is this one little local gun related problem in tennessee that maybe we can do something about. because of the rambo guy, this republican state legislature proposed a new amendment in that tennessee guns in the parks bill that they re rushing to pals ahead of the nra arriving in town this week, the trick is, though, if you think about the strategy here, they can t do anything to that bill that might offend the nra, that might upset the republican party s positive relationship with the nra, right? as it happens, they did find some language that the republicans felt okay about, they didn t think would upset the nra, and republicans in the tennessee legislature actually voted for this change, for this amendment. it s in the bill now. what they were able to bring themselves to pass is this. this language with their new law, a ban on
would go into effect as soon as the governor signed the bill. instantly. hopefully like the day before the nra got there. so the confetti would still be falling when ted nugent and wayne lapierre rolled into town. that was the local plan in tennessee for how they wanted to welcome the nra to their state. it quickly got very awkward. there may not be very many democrats left in the tennessee legislature, but the ones who are left appear to be rather spunky. if republicans in the state legislature were going to override local community laws about where guns were allowed, and where they were not allowed, would republican legislators be willing to live under those same principles themselves? the democrats proposed amending this legislation so it didn t just get rid of all the laws banning guns in local parks, their proposed amendment would also override the regulations that banned people from bringing guns and other forms of weaponry into the state capital.
if the convention organizers at the nra decide to change their minds, if they decide they maybe want to keep guns out of that hall, maybe they want to put up metal detectors or something like that, we ll let you know. but right now the plan is open carry, all the candidates. everybody just hope for the best. bring us your aching. and sleep deprived. bring us those who want to feel well rested and ready to enjoy the morning ahead. aleve pm. the first to combine a sleep aid. plus the 12 hour pain relieving strength of aleve.