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Gun rights and gun control key issue in Tennessee governor's race
Jim Moyer, a 73-year-old Vietnam veteran, believes Tennessee's gun laws should be winnowed down and the ones that remain should have "real teeth."
"If you commit a crime with a gun, it's three strikes and you're out," said the Nashville shooting supply store worker. "You never get to own again."
Meanwhile, Linda McFadyen-Ketchum, a longtime leader of the local chapter of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, wants to see new laws that would allow judges or law enforcement to temporarily remove guns from people who exhibit dangerous behavior and measures that would ban private sales.
"We are currently working on the honor system," she said.
Moyer and McFadyen-Ketchum have different views on guns. But the two agree on the importance of the issue, particularly in light of another round of high-profile mass shootings.
Complete coverage: Tennessee's 2018 race for governor
Listen now: Grand Divisions: A Tennessee politics podcast
Both have been shaken by recent events such as the February school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, where 14 students and three staff members were killed, and the Antioch Waffle House shooting in which four people were fatally shot in April.
These shootings have once again thrust gun rights and gun control into the national forefront.
The Tennessee General Assembly delved into gun issues earlier this year, debating measures to both loosen and tighten the state's gun laws. There was a failed measure to allow what is known as permit-less carry and a proposal to ban bump stocks, devices that allow semi-automatic weapons to mimic the rate of fire of fully automatic guns.
Bump stock ban: Bill to ban bump stocks in Tennessee fails in legislature
Gun control: Gov. Bill Haslam backs halting bump stock sales, increasing age to buy AR-15 rifles
The devices were used, according to authorities, in the deadly Las Vegas shooting last year. And just weeks after the Parkland shooting, Gov. Bill Haslam jumped into the debate with his strongest endorsement yet on new gun control measures.
Haslam said he supported ending the sale of bump stocks and increasing the age to buy certain semi-automatic weapons like the one used in the Florida school shooting.
Now, Moyer and McFadyen-Ketchum and residents like them across the Volunteer State want to know where Tennessee's next governor stands on Second Amendment issues.
The USA TODAY NETWORK - Tennessee reached out to the top-tier Republican and Democratic gubernatorial candidates for their responses to key questions about gun rights and gun control.
More at ...
https://www.tennessean.com/story/ne...n-rights-and-gun-control-key-issue/674631002/
Jim Moyer, a 73-year-old Vietnam veteran, believes Tennessee's gun laws should be winnowed down and the ones that remain should have "real teeth."
"If you commit a crime with a gun, it's three strikes and you're out," said the Nashville shooting supply store worker. "You never get to own again."
Meanwhile, Linda McFadyen-Ketchum, a longtime leader of the local chapter of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, wants to see new laws that would allow judges or law enforcement to temporarily remove guns from people who exhibit dangerous behavior and measures that would ban private sales.
"We are currently working on the honor system," she said.
Moyer and McFadyen-Ketchum have different views on guns. But the two agree on the importance of the issue, particularly in light of another round of high-profile mass shootings.
Complete coverage: Tennessee's 2018 race for governor
Listen now: Grand Divisions: A Tennessee politics podcast
Both have been shaken by recent events such as the February school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, where 14 students and three staff members were killed, and the Antioch Waffle House shooting in which four people were fatally shot in April.
These shootings have once again thrust gun rights and gun control into the national forefront.
The Tennessee General Assembly delved into gun issues earlier this year, debating measures to both loosen and tighten the state's gun laws. There was a failed measure to allow what is known as permit-less carry and a proposal to ban bump stocks, devices that allow semi-automatic weapons to mimic the rate of fire of fully automatic guns.
Bump stock ban: Bill to ban bump stocks in Tennessee fails in legislature
Gun control: Gov. Bill Haslam backs halting bump stock sales, increasing age to buy AR-15 rifles
The devices were used, according to authorities, in the deadly Las Vegas shooting last year. And just weeks after the Parkland shooting, Gov. Bill Haslam jumped into the debate with his strongest endorsement yet on new gun control measures.
Haslam said he supported ending the sale of bump stocks and increasing the age to buy certain semi-automatic weapons like the one used in the Florida school shooting.
Now, Moyer and McFadyen-Ketchum and residents like them across the Volunteer State want to know where Tennessee's next governor stands on Second Amendment issues.
The USA TODAY NETWORK - Tennessee reached out to the top-tier Republican and Democratic gubernatorial candidates for their responses to key questions about gun rights and gun control.
More at ...
https://www.tennessean.com/story/ne...n-rights-and-gun-control-key-issue/674631002/
