Quantcast Senate passes bill to allow guns in bars on Nashville City Paper

Thursday, December 4, 2008

Welcome Visitor!  Sign-In  | Breaking News Alerts
Free Online Classifieds | Autos | Real Estate | Jobs || News | Sports | Business | Lifestyles
 
SEARCH SITE
NEWS
ABOUT US
MY CITY PAPER
PROMOTIONS
CITY BLOGS
DINING GUIDE
PUZZLES
MULTIMEDIA
ADVERTISE
ARCHIVES
 
Senate passes bill to allow guns in bars
By: By John Rodgers, jrodgers@nashvillecitypaper.com
Email Print
The state Senate passed a bill today to allow gun carry permit holders to take their firearms into bars.

The bill passed 24-6. The permit holder carrying the gun into a place that serves alcohol is not allowed to consume alcohol under the legislation.

Sen. Doug Jackson (D-Dickson), who sponsored the legislation, said the current law forbidding permit holders from carrying their firearms into bars kept law-abiding citizens from protecting themselves against criminals, who wouldn’t care that there was a prohibition.

“Who are we protecting?” Jackson told fellow Senators.

Sen. Beverly Marrero (D-Memphis), who voted against the bill, raised questions about how the law would be enforced to make sure that gun carry permit holders in a bar did not consume alcohol.

“I have been in a bar before and I was always relatively happy that the people in that bar were not heavily armed,” Marrero said.

Local senators Thelma Harper (D-Nashville) and Joe Haynes (D-Goodlettsville) were two of the Senators voting against the legislation.

On the House side, the bill allowing guns to be taken into bars is still in subcommittee.

Thirty-four states, including five adjacent to Tennessee, allow handgun carry permit holders to take their guns inside a restaurant or bar serving alcohol.

About 185,000 Tennesseans have handgun carry permits.
Share: 
Tags:  None
Member Opinions:
By: revo-lou on 1/16/08
I LIKE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By: idgaf on 1/16/08
The bad guys will have to think twice now.

Why didn't they go all the way and pass it for schools too before we have a shooting here?

By: cannoneer2 on 1/17/08
Don't get too happy yet. This bill will be killed in a subcommittee of the House, sent there by Jimmy Naifeh. Most likely, Janis Sontany (NRA grade of F) will either be a member or chairman of this committee. Rob Briley (NRA grade of D)will also be a member.


 

SouthComm Set

SouthComm PublishingBusinessTNHer NashvilleLEO WeeklyMedical News PapersMusicRowNashville Post
Home | Contact Us | Submit News | Copyright | Privacy | Terms | Site Map
Expect More from Bondware's Website Design Tools
Email Marketing & Web Design  |  eCommerce, HOA, Publishing, Non-Profit, Intranet, Real Estate & Association Websites