Tennessee's gun background check system has a massive backlog. Here's why.
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- Опубликовано: 30 апр 2024
- Before you can ever pull the trigger on a new gun purchase, you have to pass an instant background check. In Tennessee, the problem has become it's not always up-to-date and accurate.
Are we still going to hear chants of "vote them out", since they passed a law to fix a problem with the background check system?
Yes, you will. This "fix" is too little, too late. It's just more tax dollars going to private industries to make it easier for people with more money than sense to get more guns even faster. It doesn't address the problem of more guns than people in this country, it's a boon for the firearms industry. And, they did it, because the gun industry pays them to make laws that benefit them. Republicans put industry, corporations, and the wealthy over the health, safety, and welfare of the people every time. They don't serve the public, they only serve the wealthy. They don't listen to the will of the people, they rule over them like dictators.
@@wirelesmike73 The will of the people? You mean like the Covenant mothers recently presenting the state legislature with petitions with 5,000 signatures? Wow, 5,000 signatures... in a state with a population of a bit under seven million. How many decimal places is that, when you calculate the percentage of the state's population that supported the petition?
@@paulstevens7528 No, I wasn't specifically speaking about the Covenant parents, any one individual piece of legislation, but rather the roughly 70% of the time when the Supermajority of House Republicans vote against what the majority of what Tennesseans say they want regarding any given subject. For instance, the majority of parents, teachers, and LE personnel saying that they don't want teachers carrying guns in schools, but the boneheads on Capitol Hill passed it, anyway. Or, when public polls showed that over 70% of Tennesseans, and every TN LE agency in the state were against making TN a permitless carry state, and they did it anyway.
Instead of allowing something to be brought to a public vote, they do it behind closed doors. And, when the public speaks up in protest or shows that they aren't in favor of a thing, they ignore them, or have them removed from the building.
They don't make decisions based on what's best for TN or the people who live here, they make decisions based on what makes them and their donors the most money.
@@wirelesmike73 Behind closed doors? The vote on the teacher carry bill was livestreamed on the state legislature's website. If you watched the stream, you could count how many times the gallery was warned to quit shouting, before the gallery was eventually cleared. If the majority doesn't want teachers to be armed, then why were there only a few school districts that stated shortly after the bill passed that they would not allow their teachers to be armed? Why does it seem that so many school districts are asking for more information on the training and screening requirements?