How to Break Public Schools: A Republican Playbook
The Tennessee General Assembly has never cared whether its constituents support the laws it passes, and it doesn't care now. We are on our own.
...Everybody wants to know how the underage Antioch shooter got his hands on a deadly weapon, but tracing the provenance of a gun in Tennessee is "a fool's errand," according to WPLN's Paige Pfleger, whose joint investigative reporting with ProPublica has tracked the deadly ramifications of Tennessee's lax gun laws. "State laws have made it really, really easy to possess guns here without any permitting process," she said last week on "This Is Nashville." "Background checks are not required for private sales, including sales online or at gun shows. That's not to mention the ubiquity of guns — guns stolen from cars, and that's very common."
Down here, school shootings inspire weaker gun laws. In the wake of the Sandy Hook massacre in 2012, when other states were tightening gun laws, Tennessee invited gun manufacturers to come on down. After the Waffle House shooting, legislators proposed an open-carry law that was opposed by parents, physicians, pastors, police officers, public-health officials — just about everybody. It passed anyway...
Margaret Renkl
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/opinion/nashville-guns-public-schools.html?smid=em-share
The Tennessee General Assembly has never cared whether its constituents support the laws it passes, and it doesn't care now. We are on our own.
Down here, school shootings inspire weaker gun laws. In the wake of the Sandy Hook massacre in 2012, when other states were tightening gun laws, Tennessee invited gun manufacturers to come on down. After the Waffle House shooting, legislators proposed an open-carry law that was opposed by parents, physicians, pastors, police officers, public-health officials — just about everybody. It passed anyway...
Margaret Renkl
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/opinion/nashville-guns-public-schools.html?smid=em-share
It is interesting to know the history of how our gun laws here have become so relaxed. I did not consider the effect sandy hook has had upon our legislation.
ReplyDeleteBlaming a tool for how an individual uses it is pointless. Guns are an integral part of the the people of the United States. It is written in the constitution, we own more guns than the rest of the world combined, and US is just too big to try and remove them. It would serve all of us better to educate everyone about guns, perhaps by having it be required high-school course. Atrocities like this would not happen as much if everyone was armed and knew how to use their weapons.
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