Knox County Commission refuses to support Gov. Bill Lee’s “red flag” gun safety plan
BY PGF
1 year, 7 months ago
This would be funny if it weren’t sad, and also a serious warning to free people. Forget for the moment that this resolution has no force of law, and this post isn’t about Red Flag laws necessarily.
On a nearly straight-line party vote, Knox County commissioners rejected a resolution supporting a “red flag” gun reform law backed by Gov. Bill Lee.
The governor has asked GOP lawmakers to pass the safety measure, which is supported by an overwhelming majority of Americans and can help stop mass shootings like the one that killed three 9-year-olds and three adults in Nashville.
The Knox County resolution, which was drafted by local high school students on the new Junior Commission, urged lawmakers to pass a law that temporarily takes away guns from those who are deemed to be a threat. The resolution was sponsored by Courtney Durrett and Dasha Lundy, the commission’s two Democrats.
Larsen Jay was the only Republican to support it. Kyle Ward was absent.
Jay said the resolution was “a statement that at its core says we support our governor in his efforts to make this a better state.”
Rhonda Lee, explaining her vote against it, said gun rights are too important to weaken with any proposal to limit access to guns by mentally ill people.
West High School junior Caroline Scoonover told the commission during the meeting that the resolution she helped draft was intended to be a nonpartisan approach to stopping gun violence.
“This resolution is in no way, shape or form extreme,” she said. “We’re simply trying to protect ourselves with common sense solutions.”
Dain Shelton, a senior at Hardin Valley Academy, asked commissions to stand up for kids in the community who are terrified of school shootings.
“Technically we may be children, but I can assure you, we are not children,” Shelton said. “I wish we were. We’ve had our childhood stripped from us.”
I don’t want to say anything against this terribly ill-raised and misled student, but Dain Shelton’s parents should be ashamed of themselves. Hardin Valley Academy is populated by some of the most privileged people on earth. They, every parent, teacher, and student should be on their knees before the Christ of God, worshiping Him and giving Him all glory, praise, and honor for the absurd level of abundance of every resource of provision that even the people in the next county over could only dream of. This abundance includes layers of security and safety from parents, neighbors, and the government. Hardin Valley is one of the safest and most comfortable places on earth.
“Childhood stripped?” Seriously? Go work the lithium mines for your Teslas! I’m not classist; the people who have built the businesses and provided the jobs and homes are critical to this area, but listen to these children; they’ll turn on the productive in a heartbeat.
Other students echoed his statements, with Gabriela Sanchez Benitez adding, “This is not how it should be. We are not free. We are tied down by chains of fear.”
Irrational fear comes from a spirit of evil through the absence of Holy God (2 Timothy 1:7). “Tied down by chains of fear?” This rises to the level of AOC silliness.
What should bother the reader is the training these young people have received; that should make Americans fearful for the future. They have no concept of reality, truth, or the hard work it took to make Knox Country, and particularly Hardin Valley, prosperous and free. And despite all of Knox County’s problems and vanishing liberty every day, it’s still relatively free compared to much of America. Ungrateful to God, thankless to their forebears, whiny children of privilege! Pathetic.
They’re so ill-educated that the concept of those same laws being used against them is inconceivable to their feebly trained minds. Of course, purposefully retarding their ability in logic, reason, and critical thinking is all part of the communist program, even in East Tennessee.
Edit: look at this propaganda headline from Fox News. If you still watch and read them, you’re daft! “Tennessee governor defends Second Amendment in previewing special session on public safety, gun reform”
No Red Flag law! Tennessee already has a sufficient law for criminal threats.
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On April 27, 2023 at 6:32 am, Joe Blow said:
I live in Kingston 40 min outside Knoxville. Its a suburb of, the ‘big city with UT’ (the presence of a University within city limits is important). The City of Knoxville and a handful of its surrounding suburbs is an example of the blue hive city phenomenon. CERTAIN suburbs (like Farragut, Hardin Valley, West Knox) are very blue/purple oriented. None of the other towns are at all. Notice none of that BS came from suburbs to the South or East of Knox? The mayor of Knox, India Kincannon – not to be confused with County Commish Kane (Glen Jacobs, who is universally loved by the locals) – is the worst kind of smarmy liberal, her election was very polarizing, all her votes were from inner city areas (section 8 housing), and at odds with all the surrouning communities… it is a very polarizing situation, and starting to create tensions in the community. Locals are fleeing the city literally and metaphorically – outside home football games, the town is dead, thanks to Mayor Kincannon. Everyone (but her constituents) hate her. She has destroyed a once vibrant downtown, where have we seen this before?
This is your blue media from blue hive cities doing what they do: declaring their platform of beliefs as the correct and true one, stating without cause that its the platform everyone believes and supports, and anyone who disagrees with their statements is an abhorrent bigot.
EastTN is not interested one whit in the garbage spewed forth by these mouthpieces, but the media will amplify and focus on them regardless. The whole event was designed around an emotional manipulation, not logic and reason. Look at the words used… delivered by children, for the cameras.
There will be no reconcilliation.
Can people really not see they have taken the gloves off, to get what they want? They will lie, cajole, and smear with impunity, ends justifying the means, in their own words, just ask them, they’ll tell you! (J6, false impeachment attempts, they do not care for morals or law, they will try to win at any cost, including shooting you dead if you oppose, we just haven’t reached that point yet, but they are discussing it! Did you forget covid camps were a threat already?
They are going to get you to bend the knee to their demands, lock you up against your will, or kill you. Those are your choices if you are not prepared to fight (and I do mean a hail of bullets and stacking dead bodies in mass graves with a bulldozer).