Time for activism is NOW!

[Worriedman]

As today will give us the General Assembly we will have for the next two years, it is important that we reach out to our newly elected General Assembly and honor our Article 1 Section 23 obligation to "instruct" our elected employees, and that they in turn hold the bureaucracies that are tax payer funded to the same rules that all government is held to recognize, that all power is inherent in the People, and that they work for us!   

We need at least one (1) (and 50 would be better) constituent of ever Representative and Senator in the TN General Assembly to write their members and let them know that the Bruen decision  has settled the matter that non-criminal Citizens of this State (by virtue of the 2010 McDonald v. City of Chicago ruling by SCOTUS incorporating the 2nd Amendment against the states under the due process clause of the 14th Amendment has made the 2nd a Civil Right) have a non second class Right to carry arms, and not just handguns, for their use in case of confrontation.

It is imperative that we can show proof of this transfer of knowledge, even though it has been read into the Journal of the General Assembly (ask me how I know that) this year we MUST convince the members that we understand that their having knowledge of the facts puts them in jeopardy of being convicted of Official Oppression if they fail to remedy the unconstitutional infringements placed by the General Assembly on our right to keep, bear and wear arms.  Thomas said in Bruen this is no second class right, where we must prove need to enjoy, but rather is ours by birth as Citizens, given us by God and simply obstructed by a government that swears to uphold the Constitutions of our State and Union. 

From our TCA Code Annotated:

Part 4 - Misconduct Involving Public Officials and Employees
39-16-403 - Official oppression.

39-16-403. Official oppression.

(a)  A public servant acting under color of office or employment commits an offense who:

     (1)  Intentionally subjects another to mistreatment or to arrest, detention, stop, frisk, halt, search, seizure, dispossession, assessment or lien when the public servant knows the conduct is unlawful; or

     (2)  Intentionally denies or impedes another in the exercise or enjoyment of any right, privilege, power or immunity, when the public servant knows the conduct is unlawful.

(b)  For purposes of this section, a public servant acts under color of office or employment if the public servant acts, or purports to act, in an official capacity or takes advantage of the actual or purported capacity.

(c)  An offense under this section is a Class E felony.

(d)  Charges for official oppression may be brought only by indictment, presentment or criminal information; provided, that nothing in this section shall deny a person from pursuing other criminal charges by affidavit of complaint.

[Acts 1989, ch. 591, § 1; 1990, ch. 980, § 11.]  

Every member of the General Assembly, The Governor, the Department of Safety, the Sheriffs and their deputies, the Chiefs of Police and their officers, the TBI and every other agency are held to support and defend the Constitutions of the State and Union by that oath.  When they take tax payer money  to do a job, they are bound thereby, regardless of personal opinion or belief.

The various departments and LE agencies are not given power to make law, or to lobby for or against them.  Having knowledge of the flow chart of governance with the People at the top and them being relegated to a servants position for pay, I am tired of seeing their paid shills speak against my rights, using my tax money to do so.  Only the legislature can make law, and that at the People's will, if we will but engage.

Having the Department of Safety, TBI and Sheriff's Association testify under oath that they are "philosophically opposed" to relinquishing their strangle hold on our right to bear arms is criminal, but will only be stopped by US,  and that only if we alert our elected employees that we know the facts and intend to see them obeyed.

Edited November 8, 2022 by Worriedman

[bye losers]

There are too many " I support the Second Amendment, BUT " folks out there nowadays. Heck, right here on this very site you can see this all the time.

 

[krunchnik]

1 hour ago, EdH said:

There are too many " I support the Second Amendment, BUT " folks out there nowadays. Heck, right here on this very site you can see this all the time.

 

Please enlighten?

[FUJIMO]

1 hour ago, krunchnik said:

Please enlighten?

Based on his post count you'll need to wait 2 years for a reply

[scatman]

1 hour ago, krunchnik said:

Please enlighten?

I'll give a certain law as reference. The Gun Control Act of 1968 followed up and amended by the Brady Bill. 

[Worriedman]

Pretty much every TN State Senator, with the exception of Frank Nicely, Dawn White, Janice Bowling, Joey Hensley and Kerry Roberts are 2nd Amendment Butters.

I had hopes that Sen. Paul Baily was going to join the fold, but the jury is still out on that one.

The main reason that we can get nothing done to return the Rights due Tennesseans is the mindset of the Lt. Governor.  He thinks the laws on our books now are perfect and sees no need to even discus any changes.

We will only move forward if the People light their Senators up demanding a return to the principals of the time of the Founding, as was directed by the Supreme Court in the Bruen decision, from that : 

"To justify its regulation, the government may not simply posit that the regulation promotes an important interest. Rather, the government must demonstrate that the regulation is consistent with this Nation’s historical tradition of firearm regulation. Only if a firearm regulation is consistent with this Nation’s historical tradition may a court conclude that the individual’s conduct falls outside the Second Amendment’s “unqualified command.”

 

Instead, the government must affirmatively prove that its firearms regulation is part of the historical tradition that delimits the outer bounds of the right to keep and bear arms.

 

We looked to history because “it has always been widely understood that the Second Amendment . . . codified a pre-existing right.” The Amendment “was not intended to lay down a novel principle but rather codified a right inherited from our English ancestors.” Id., at 599 (alterations and internal quotation marks omitted). After surveying English history dating from the late 1600s, along with American colonial views leading up to the founding, we found “no doubt, on the basis of both text and history, that the Second Amendment conferred an individual right to keep and bear arms.”

We then canvassed the historical record and found yet further confirmation. That history included the “analogous arms-bearing rights in state constitutions that preceded and immediately followed adoption of the Second Amendment,” id., at 600–601, and “how the Second Amendment was interpreted from immediately after its ratification through the end of the 19th century,” id., at 605. When the principal dissent charged that the latter category of sources was illegitimate “postenactment legislative history,” id., at 662, n. 28 (opinion of Stevens, J.), we clarified that "examination of a variety of legal and other sources to determine the public understanding of a legal text in the period after its enactment or ratification” was “a critical tool of constitutional interpretation.""

Our State Senators know this, and by their actions to deny you your Rights originally enumerated in the Bill of Rights of the Union Constitution and those in our Tennessee Constitution's Declaration of Rights analog they are in fact guilty of Official Oppression.

 

[Worriedman]

We added a number of solid 2nd Amendment supporters to the House side of our General Assembly in this last election cycle:
Jody Barrett in District 69, Ed Butler in District 41, Kip Capley in District 71, Elaine Davis in District 18, Monty Fritz in District 32, Brock Martin in District 79, and Bryan Richey in District 20.

These are legislators who we can count on to carry and sponsor restorative issues for us.  

They will be an adjunct to, Rusty Grills, Chris Todd, John Ragan, Jay Reedy and Clay Doggett who have been our Champions to date.  

[bye losers]

On 11/14/2022 at 9:21 AM, FUJIMO said:

Based on his post count you'll need to wait 2 years for a reply

This right here is why I seldom post ....childish #### runs unfettered. Thanks for proving my point.

[FUJIMO]

51 minutes ago, EdH said:

This right here is why I seldom post ....childish #### runs unfettered. Thanks for proving my point.

Glad I could help

Edited November 21, 2022 by FUJIMO

[m16ty]

On 11/18/2022 at 5:57 AM, Worriedman said:

We added a number of solid 2nd Amendment supporters to the House side of our General Assembly in this last election cycle:
Jody Barrett in District 69, Ed Butler in District 41, Kip Capley in District 71, Elaine Davis in District 18, Monty Fritz in District 32, Brock Martin in District 79, and Bryan Richey in District 20.

These are legislators who we can count on to carry and sponsor restorative issues for us.  

They will be an adjunct to, Rusty Grills, Chris Todd, John Ragan, Jay Reedy and Clay Doggett who have been our Champions to date.  

I don't know much about any you just posted except Jody Barrett, he is a personal friend of mine and can be counted on.

[Worriedman]

22 hours ago, m16ty said:

I don't know much about any you just posted except Jody Barrett, he is a personal friend of mine and can be counted on.

I have high hopes for Rep. Barrett, he is an attorney and hopefully will be assigned to a committee where he can use his knowledge and talents to further our cause.  I have spoken with him a few times and we seem to share the same goals.