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I may be opening a can of worms (I hope not) but I just put a post on my blog. It's titled "Regulating the wearing of arms in Tennesse, part 1" and I'd appreciate any comments on anything I might have missed. I'm not asking for opinions on additional subjects I didn't cover, just on what I addressed in the post. I'm going to post part 2 on friday.

Here's the link:

Regulating the wearing of arms in Tennessee, part 1.

Thanks in advance.

PapaB

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Guest donfromtexas
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In other words, if the State wants to ban someone from carrying a gun in a shoe store, they have to show that there is currently a problem caused by allowing guns in shoe stores. Furthermore, they have to show that the legislation would remove, or greatly reduce, the stated problem.

HB 0962 known as the “guns in restaurants” bill, which took effect on July 14, 2009. This new law removed restrictions on HCP holders that prevented them from carrying their guns in any restaurant that also sold alcohol by the drink.

I suggest that, under those circumstances, the current law was unconstitutional as it did nothing to prevent crime.

Since they removed the restrictions, how is it unconstitutional? I think the intent you have is there, but it can be viewed by some as you are against the new bill and believe it is unconstitutional by the format and wording used.

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Thanks for catching that error Don. I rewrote it to say:

"I suggest that, under those circumstances, the previous law was unconstitutional, per Andrews v. State mentioned earlier, as it had done nothing to prevent crime and there was no evidence to show it would."

Hopefully that clears up what I meant to say.

Guest SureShot308
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They were all very good. The only question I have is in the Second to last paragraph in Part 2. You said only 12/10ths of 1%. why not just say 1.2%? Then the next sentence you said .0012. You might be able to relate that to the total number of permit holders saying that would be 285 people that lose their permits for any reason. Does that include people that don't renew? or just people that had their permit revoked?

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The figure isn't 1.2%, it's .12% and I was afraid if people saw it printed that way they would think 12% instead. 1.2% is ten times the actual figure. It's a number that's hard for most people to wrap there mind around. That's why I added the part about if the federal income tax were the same rate you could make $50,000.00 and only owe $60.00 tax.

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