SB 250

[Worriedman]

Kelsey managed to force a vote on the bill, supporters tried to roll it.  Bill was amended to take down the penalty to a Class A misdemeanor but he, Overby, Stephens and Finney stuck a knife in the bill. 4-4, it is on life support, and fading fast.

[GKar]

I thought Kelsey's grandstanding about TN LEOs being forced to shoot and kill Fed officials was a real class act...perfectly in line with his other classy acts RE procedure, etc.  What a tool!

[GKar]

Kind of an aside, but I do find this interesting: one of the major issues some had with the bill was how they could deal with the fiscal note estimate of $62K per incarceration.  So much so, it was seen as a death knell .  Yet, earlier in the day, HB1039 (whose senate sponsor just happens to be Kelsey), which creates a new crime of "especially aggravated assault", gets passed thru the Crim Just Cmte (and previously, the Crim Just Sub) with no hesitations about its fiscal note:of $1.7 MILLION per incarceration.  Its just money, right?

 

NOTE: the House version of SB250 is now rolled to next weeks subcmte meeting.  Surprise, surprise, surprise!

[Worriedman]

The amendment that Sen. Beavers put on the bill reduced the fiscal note to the extent it would not require the bill to go to Finance.
 

Kelsey's comment that this was not about 2nd Amendment issues, (he said if it were, the NRA would have been "up here"). As it was not an NRA written bill, I would not expect to see them, in fact, I have not seen the NRA present at the legislature a time this year, for any reason, but I digress.

 

Kelsey is correct, the treatment of the sponsor has nothing to do with the 2nd Amendment, it has to do with bowing to the Behemoth Federal Government, worship of the Gods of Legal by a group of lawyers.  Kelsey, Overby, Finney and Stephens are all lawyers, not statesmen.