n preparation for TN's 106th General Assembly

[Guest nokoDAD]

CITIZEN SAFETY COALITION ON CRIME

Together, we are making Tennessee safer.

Tennessee still has some of the weakest laws against gun violence and illegal possession of guns by convicted felons in the country.

We need your help in sending a strong message to our state lawmakers to strengthen Tennessee’s crime laws, particularly those involving guns.

In preparation for the state’s 106th General Assembly on Capitol Hill in Nashville, you are invited to attend the Citizen Safety Coalition’s Forum on Crime.

February 11, 2010

Jewish Community Center

6560 Poplar Avenue

7:00-8:30 P.M.

At the forum, you’ll hear from Congressman Steve Cohen, State legislators including Representative John DeBerry, City of Memphis Mayor A C Wharton, Shelby County Mayor Joe Ford, Shelby County District Attorney General Bill Gibbons, Shelby County Sheriff Mark Luttrell, Memphis Police Director Larry Godwin and City of Memphis Council member Jim Strickland. There will also be presentations by families of crime victims.

Also, if you would like to participate in the Citizen Safety Coalition please email Linda K. Miller at lmiller@memphiscrime.org or call 901-527-2600.

Thats an email I received this week. Any thoughts?

[Guest jackdm3]

We had the neighborhood assoc. meeting last night and one very irritating woman tried to get us all to go to this meeting. She spoke up about this shortly after one of gun-carrying teachers asked about wills and getting his guns bequeathed to the right heirs (the meeting was about estate planning). She told about all the people that are supposed to be there, beyond the ones that showed up to our meeting 4 months ago (Luttrell, Godwins's Chief of Police, Strickland and Kernell). All anybody would say about guns was get lots of training. I expect this meeting to be hardcore against us, though in a casual way. The TFA group asked Luttrell to meet somewhere and he decided to have it at his range: NO GUNS WERE PERMITTED!

I have to ask, Who's for us?

[Guest 270win]

How is it illegal to have a handgun at the Shelby County Sheriff's Dept range? I don't know of any state law that says you can't have one there as long as you have a permit. Now if you ask, of course they'll say you can't have one, but again no law against carrying one in your pocket as far as I know.

[Guest jackdm3]

I didn't understand it since he would be among friends. So, I didn't go.

[E4 No More]

Forum rules prevent me from posting what I'd say to them if I got something like that.