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Jun 10 2009
01:38 pm
Newsweek editorial spotlights Tennessee gun legislation
By: R. Neal

Meacham: Guns, Liquor and the Age of Obama

Bredesen's handling of the Tennessee gunfights — signing one bill, vetoing another, keeping his options open on still others — offers a window onto the surprisingly scattershot nature of gun policy in the age of Obama. NRA ads from 2008 predicting the end of all things in the event of a Democratic victory have the antique feel of a Mike Huckabee placard — the president, like the governor, is fully cognizant of the fact that pro-gun sentiment in America is rising, not falling.

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bizgrrl's picture

if you are going to have a

Submitted by bizgrrl on Wed, 2009/06/10 - 5:03pm.

if you are going to have a gun, you need a Mr. Natoli

An important point. I, as has Gov. Bredesen, have been around guns all of my life. In my encounters with gun owners, the safest gun owners are the ones who don't much talk about their guns. They obtain guns, they learn gun safety, they hunt and/or plink.

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Bread, Milk, Handgun

Submitted by local_yokel on Wed, 2009/06/10 - 5:40pm.

There was a "box" about it in The Economist, also. Pretty humorous.

“I EAT, therefore I hunt”, reads a camouflage T-shirt on sale at Gun City USA, a small gun store in Nashville. But the rows of military-style assault rifles and display cases showing semi-automatic handguns suggest that most of Gun City’s clientele are not looking to shoot game.

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