Your guess is as good as mine. I was led to believe the bill would have become law effective June 1 with the governor's signature. I see nothing in the Constitution that would prevent it from becoming law effective today. The 40-day rule is a new one on me.

I've simply got to find myself a good .50 caliber and some RPGs for the fall fashion season else I'll look all metro when I go out. Until then, I think I can come up with some bandoleer ammo belts and a good BushMaster ...

"If ignorance is bliss, why aren't more people happy?"

Tennesseans look more & more like fools to the rest of the country.
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Restaurants and bars remain lawless free fire danger zones without protection of citizen vigilantes for 40 more days?

Don't something like 40 other states have laws similar to the one you're talking about? Have their restaurants turned into real versions of killing zones? Is actual vigilante activity on the rise in those places? If it is, then your editorial tone here might be justifiable. If not, then why the crazyass fear?

Tennesseans look more & more like fools to the rest of the country.

Really? The whole rest of the country? On the contrary, for better or worse, it seems like we're in step with about four fifths of it.

Back when TN was considering shall-issue, I had a conversation with a state legislator who predicted that the state would turn into "The Wild, Wild West" with the passage of that law, even though he planned to vote for it anyway. That fear has not materialized. I don't get why people like you cling to this fear. It's completely irrational.

Rest easy. As the Cargo Cult is so fond of reminding us, people just go ahead and carry unlawfully all the time.

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I dined at three restaurants in Knoxville last week that serve alcohol. I didn't get shot once. No roving bands of thugs stormed the place either, even though they knew no one was armed inside.

Film at 11.

The gun manufacturer's lobby [NRA] and their assorted group of crazies [otherwise known as men with tiny penises] win another battle.

I won guns and defend the right to won them but there are places here they need to be prohibited. Church, jail, bars, etc.

Why bars? Because the men with tiny penises get really mad when "their woman" dances with someone else and if they're drunk and packing, well, the story tells itself, stupid is a stupid does.

"If ignorance is bliss, why aren't more people happy?"

is not with the responsible legal carry permit holders...of which there are a great deal. The problem is that you cannot trust each and every legal carry permit holder to abide by the strictures of the law. People know that drinking and driving are incompatible and yet every day, dozens or hundreds of legally licensed drivers choose to drink, and then get in their cars and drive home. Many make it without incident, but those few who do not, ruin the lives of innocent bystanders forever.

Human nature being what it is, there will be some (NOT ALL) legally permitted gun owners that do not abstain from drinking while carrying their weapons into public bars and restaurants. THOSE people are the ones with the potential to do the greatest harm, not because they aren't normally law-abiding citizens, but because they assume that they can handle their liquor, and that no one has the right to tell them they can't drink and carry at the same time.

I believe in the Second Amendment, but I think that there are certain situations that do NOT call for people going armed. You run more of a chance of being killed crossing the street than you do of being involved in a shoot out situation in a restaurant with an armed felon or mentally unbalanced person...there really is no reason for you to feel as if you MUST carry a weapon with you at all times.

Life is too short to live in a constant state of fear of "the other" in our society. If you want to live your life in fear and dread, feel free, but please leave the guns at home...you really don't NEED them.

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as a gun owner who has had a gun held to her head in a local knoxville bar by a guy who she had been discussing the talents of hank sr. with only minutes before....i would think it would be clear to all that guns in bars is a bad idea. i can also say that had i been carrying, i would have gotten myself and possibly others shot going for a gun at any point in that altercation. luckily that night, only one shot was fired and no one was hurt, but if a couple of those folks had been carrying...who knows. i am content with the 12 year sentence of the criminal and the safety of the patrons and the owner. sure, that was before the law...but seems we're just making it easier. and by the way, maybe there are more important things we should be voting on right now!

BL's humor/satire/sarcasm/irony circuit seems to be shorted out.

At any rate, the first part of the headline suggests sarcastically there is not a problem with gunplay in restaurants. Most rational people would concur. Now we are asked to prove that there is. I'm confused.

Anyway, the issue is not so much who is carrying where legally or whether it will increase violence (probably not, but there are certain to be isolated incidents) but rather why the urgent need to pass these bills that seem to be solutions looking for problems when there are other more pressing issues.

Oh, wait, I think we all know the answer to that. It's NRA-fueled pandering to extreme conservatives.

P.S. And there is a vigilante culture among gun fetishists. And as for "fearstink," most of us are saying we are fine going to restaurants without guns, so who's afraid of what? I'm confused again.

Roving vigilantes being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to drink and bear arms shall not be unhinged.