Wed
Aug 5 2009
09:07 am
City of Maryville bans guns in parks
By: R. Neal

Unanimous vote by City Council.

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bizgrrl's picture

Yea! Here's hoping Alcoa and

Submitted by bizgrrl on Wed, 2009/08/05 - 9:10am.

Yea! Here's hoping Alcoa and Blount County will follow suit.

Matthew 's picture

No lets hope that Blount

Submitted by Matthew (not verified) on Wed, 2009/08/05 - 3:31pm.

No lets hope that Blount County and Alcoa does not follow suit.

I love how they are always talking about kids sports games. But of how many hours in a week that a park is open, how many hours are there actually kids games going on?! Let alone that you can not find a story where a parent pulls a gun and shoots a coach/ref at a kids game and there are plenty of states which allow carry in local parks.

I urge all Alcoa residents to telephone or email their commissioners in favor of not Op'ing out of this law.

Alcoa Commissioners are:
Ken White (kwhite@cityofalcoa-tn.gov)
Vaughn Belcher (belcher@cityofalcoa-tn.gov)
Clint Abbott (abbott@cityofalcoa-tn.gov)
Clayton Bledsoe (bledsoe@cityofalcoa-tn.gov)
Mayor Don Mull (mull@cityofalcoa-tn.gov)

bizgrrl's picture

Let alone that you can not

Submitted by bizgrrl on Wed, 2009/08/05 - 4:56pm.

Let alone that you can not find a story where a parent pulls a gun and shoots a coach/ref at a kids game

Puhleese! If all is well in the garden, then why do you need a gun?

smalc's picture

Seems like we hear of fights

Submitted by smalc on Fri, 2009/08/07 - 8:59am.

Seems like we hear of fights between parents and parents vs refs quite often.

DRail's picture

All is good in the garden

Submitted by DRail (not verified) on Wed, 2009/08/12 - 4:20pm.

All is good in the garden when law abiding citizens are allowed to carry a weapon to protect themselves. Of course you and people like you are perfectly happy with only criminals going armed.

Are you also against the use of those clubs....I mean bats at the ball games? There are so many to choose from when one is looking to fight during a ball game. Ball bats make a great weapon in a pinch. Maybe we should force all ball play to be Wiffle Ball. Less concussions from those plastic bats.

Elrod's picture

Quite often

Submitted by Elrod on Wed, 2009/08/05 - 9:01pm.

I live across the street from Sandy Springs Park and I can tell you that there is some sort of athletic events - softball, baseball, football, tennis - and kids just hanging out just about any hour of the day.

SnM's picture

3 dead, 1 wounded in

Submitted by SnM on Thu, 2009/08/06 - 12:53pm.

3 dead, 1 wounded in shooting at Tennessee ballfield
(link...)

Not that a gun ban would have changed anything that happened.

DRail's picture

Only problem with your story

Submitted by DRail (not verified) on Wed, 2009/08/12 - 4:13pm.

Only problem with your story that the shooting was over a custody battle and not a a loss of tempers from a ball game.

Mello's picture

Blount County is now stepping up

Submitted by Mello on Thu, 2009/08/06 - 6:21pm.

AGENDA
BOARD OFCOMMISSIONERS AGENDA COMMITTEE MEETING
TUESDAY, AUGUST 11, 2009, 6:30 P.M.
ROOM 430, BLOUNT COUNTY COURTHOUSE

F. NEW BUSINESS:
1. Resolution to prohibit persons from possessing handguns in public parks in Blount County. (Mike Lewis)

This will be interesting to say the least. It might not even make it to the full Commission Agenda.

bizgrrl's picture

Thanks, Mello. I will have

Submitted by bizgrrl on Fri, 2009/08/07 - 7:37am.

Thanks, Mello. I will have to miss this meeting. The City of Alcoa Commission meeting is that night. Do not yet know what is on their agenda. I have requested the opt-out to be on the agenda, as I did with Blount County. I hope it makes it to the full Blount County Commission agenda. If nothing else, we need the commissioners to tell us how they stand.

Mello's picture

yeah, but

Submitted by Mello on Fri, 2009/08/07 - 8:16am.

All of Blount has some big points of confusion on this because it is not easy to identify which parks are city owned vs county owned vs leased to private groups.

bizgrrl's picture

which parks are city owned

Submitted by bizgrrl on Fri, 2009/08/07 - 8:24am.

which parks are city owned vs county owned

I have wondered about this. Parks & Rec manages a lot of the parks in Blount County, including the parks in Alcoa and Maryville (e.g. the greenbelt, Springbrook Park, Sandy Springs Park, etc.) I have no idea if let's say Blount County elects to not opt-out but Alcoa does elect to opt-out if Springbrook Park would be included under Alcoa's umbrella.

Travis's picture

It's all great until someone

Submitted by Travis (not verified) on Fri, 2009/08/07 - 3:14pm.

It's all great until someone is raped or killed on the green way trails in our cities, who's fault will be then? The unarmed permit holder or the rapist killer? good greif people we aren't talking about carrying guns to our schools or to our kids play grounds or ball fields. I feel that the people of Blount County need to have more trust in their local permit holders. Go by Gunny's and talk to them and let them show you the major increase in permit holders in Blount County alone. I do jog and ride my bicycle in the evenings and some at night and i would personally feel safer if i had my carry weapon. I carry a handgun because a cop is too heavy. Plus when seconds count the police are minutes away.
I'm sorry that i can't make the Alcoa or Blount County Commission meeting next Tuesday wish i could, perhaps this won't be on the agenda until later in the year and i can attend.
Best of luck,
Travis

Travis's picture

Soddy Daisy Goes Along With Guns At Parks

Submitted by Travis (not verified) on Fri, 2009/08/07 - 3:21pm.

Guns will be allowed in Soddy Daisy’s parks.
(link...)

(I'm glad another city has their facts straight and did a great thing for the folks of their town. Now lets get behind our commissioners and get the same for us in Blount County and Alcoa.)

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DaisyChain's picture

Thank God Soddy Daisy has fixed this rampant problem

Submitted by DaisyChain (not verified) on Fri, 2009/08/07 - 6:17pm.

Soddy Daisy? Really?

Soddy Daisy with its less than 300 crimes a year on average for the last 5 years? Soddy Daisy with its 4 cops? Soddy Daisy, all white and sharing the same religion Soddy Daisy? (link...)

Just who is it they're afraid of? Must be murderer who has inflicted ZERO murders upon their community in the last 7 years.

S Carpenter's picture

BS detector just went off

Submitted by S Carpenter on Wed, 2009/08/12 - 5:28pm.

Travis,
Are you seriously saying that you want to jog with a gun strapped to you?
SC

Elrod's picture

It's all about psychology

Submitted by Elrod on Wed, 2009/08/12 - 4:37pm.

Not a single crime will be prevented by allowing permitholders to carry guns in parks. And, my guess is that not a single crime would be committed because of the right to carry guns in parks either. It's all irrelevant, fantasy-world garbage.

I've never owned a gun in my life and I've lived in neighborhoods with actual crime, including in Washington, DC. Never once did I feel like I'd be safer if I had a gun. I have no beef with people who feel they need to carry a gun to feel safe. But the difference is a matter of psychology and nothing else. Some people are just afraid all the time - afraid of people who don't look like them, talk like them, make less money than them. etc. And their whole lives are controlled by that fear. Others recognize the real dangers of modern life but don't let these concerns overwhelm them.

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