Tennessee State Representative on Permit Confidentiality:

[Guest 2HOW]

Tennessee State Representative on Permit Confidentiality: Recently the Commercial Appeal, a Memphis-based newspaper, published the list of handgun carry permit holders in an easily searchable online database. Not surprisingly, Tennesseans across the state were outraged and expressed this, calling their lawmakers’ offices and demanding action… The Commercial Appeal’s desire to make this list public intrigued me. What was their reasoning behind publishing it? Perhaps there was a perfectly good explanation that just escaped me. Then, in this week’s Sunday edition of the paper, the CA responded to the criticism and defended their action. The arguments were weak, even flawed. From the editorial, it seems as though one goal was to cast suspicion on the legal, responsible gun owners of this state. The paper states: “A school official, concerned about whether teachers were bringing guns onto school grounds, might check the list to see whether anyone on the staff has a permit to carry, and then have a discussion about it.†That the Commercial Appeal would encourage a school official to target teachers who are legal gun owners is disconcerting…

http://www.chattanoogan.com/articles/article_144969.asp

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[TGO David]

So in other words, the Commercial Appeal hopes that this will encourage profiling. Fine. My new profile for the editorial staff of the CA is that they are douchebags.