Only seven state lawmakers publicly support a controversial proposal from Gov. Bill Lee to remove guns from those who pose a threat to themselves or others, a proposal the Republican governor plans to push forward during a special legislative session next month.

Lee has repeatedly said he plans to move forward with his proposal, first made during the waning hours of the regular legislative session in April, when he calls lawmakers back for a public safety-focused special session on Aug. 21. Within hours of his proposal, Republicans bristled at the governor’s timing, as he called for a vote less than 72 hours before the Tennessee General Assembly was set to adjourn.

But now, after having months to review, digest, and discuss the plan at length with the governor, it seems opposition to the measure has only grown.

For this story, The Tennessean reached out to all 132 lawmakers on whether they support, oppose, or will wait to hear testimony on Lee’s proposal, as circulated in April. The Tennessean also identified other public statements made by members on the proposal. Only seven members were willing to publicly share support.

Tennessee gun reform proposal: Who backs, opposes Gov. Bill Lee’s plan (tennessean.com)

Obviously, you cannot count on the backbone of most politicians and the possibility of secret dealings plus simple lies.

Here is something interesting: The Senate is composed of 27 Republicans and 6 Democrats and the House of Representatives is composed of 75 Republicans and 24 Democrats which all gives us the 132 members that the paper reached. And although a handful of Republicans have admitted they want to hear the proposal, the staunchest supporters of the Red Flag law session are Democrats, but there are 30 Legislature members who are Democrats and only 7 legislators willing to openly voice their opposition?

It seems they are clear they do not gain anything by supporting Red Flag laws and it can come back to chew them in the nether regions.

Still, let’s keep the pressure, shall we?

MOUNT JULIET, Tenn. (WSMV) – A suspect’s gun discharged while Mount Juliet Police officers were attempting to arrest him on Friday, police said.

Police said while officers were attempting to gain control of the armed suspect’s hands, the suspect’s handgun fired from his waistband, causing a lower leg injury to the suspect. The incident happened around 5:30 p.m. at the Willow Creek apartment’s parking lot after an officer initiated a stop on a man who ignored a stop sign in a vehicle without a license plate. During the interaction, officers discovered that the suspect was wanted in Humphreys and Shelby counties.

Officers saw and told the suspect they could see a handgun in his waistband and instructed him not to reach for it. As officers attempted to arrest the man, he began to reach towards the handgun, which led to a struggle in the parking lot as officers worked to gain control of the man’s hands. The handgun discharged during the struggle, which led to an injury to the man’s leg. After the shot, officers found the handgun still inside the man’s pants. An officer applied a tourniquet. The suspect was taken to a hospital with a non-life-threatening injury.

Suspect shot during struggle with officers after traffic stop (wsmv.com)

Live a life of crime, make every mistake possible so you get noticed by cops on the street, resist arrest while reaching for a gun. Yup, dumbass.

And one more example why we must carry in a holster.

This is a very Texas headline:

Texas shooting over stolen car leaves suspected thief dead, accomplice injured and robbery victim in the hospital

A man whose car had been stolen tracked down his vehicle to a Texas shopping center lot – before shooting dead one of the alleged thieves and wounding the other.

Gunfire erupted in the parking lot outside South Park Mall, San Antonio, just before 1pm Thursday after the man figured out where his stolen car was located.

The owner of the stolen car had ordered the driver and his female companion out of the vehicle – and sat them down by the tire at gunpoint while they waited for police.

But the stolen car victim was hit with a bullet when one of the suspected thieves, a male, took a gun out from his waistband and opened fire.

The owner then returned fire – which killed the suspected robber.

The woman, who was the passenger in the stolen vehicle, was also shot, and is in critical condition at the hospital.

Police said that the owner of the stolen vehicle is in stable condition.

No charges have been filed yet.

The names of the people involved have not been released.

‘Certainly a case of self-defense, is what we have,’ San Antonio Police Department Chief William McManus said. ‘We would prefer that they call the police before taking that into your own hands, but he did what he felt he needed to do.’

I am not a lawyer, but I’m pretty sure this was a good shoot.

Texas is a citizen arrest state, so this man holding the two people he caught stealing his truck at gunpoint for the police, as I understand, is completely legal.

He only shot and killed one thief and wounded the other when they shot first.  That makes it good self defense.

The police seem to have come to that conclusion as well.

Besides, they stole a man’s truck in Texas.

That’s a state that used to hang horse thieves.

Even if they did prosecute this man, the likelihood they would find a jury to convict would be impossible.

Just one guy with a lifted pickup and a gun on the jury and it’s hung.

One of our readers sent me this case…HOLY S**T!

It had to be the hand of God (or your particularly deity) that kept the advancing cops from not being mowed down by their fellow dumbasses with guns in the rear.

If there were not a couple of rounds of fisticuffs thrown back in the locker room after the day was over, the whole department is dumber than initially thought.

Hat Tip ManAeskewed

I am the idiot who people count on getting shit fixed because they were too lazy/ignorant to get it right the first time. And I do it because a work ethic was instilled in me to do what is right, but what was not taught is to learn when to detect and fight abusive laziness/incompetence and stop being the workplace dunce.

But I learned.

And I will admit that it is fun to watch the work Titanic ship sink after they hit the iceberg of their incompetence and have nobody else to blame but themselves.

Federal prosecutors dropped campaign finance charges against Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder of FTX.

He donated $40 million to Democrats last election cycle.

A guy who donates a shitload of money to the political party in charge of the DOJ doesn’t get prosecuted is pretty standard, run of the mill corruption.

One journalist decided that was evidence of white privilege.

White Privilege Alert…Sam Bankman Fried…who helped the Democrats launder $100M’s of dollars has had the charges against him dropped. pic.twitter.com/ZcF7iqsE2q

— Liz Churchill (@liz_churchill10) July 27, 2023

X (formerly Twitter) responded by trending He’s Jewish.

That devolved into a running insane tirade of antisemitic conspiracy theories.

Fan-fuckinh-tastic.

Welcome to Weimar Germany.

The economy is collapsing and corruption is blatant, so everyone blames the Jews.

I’m gonna go buy more ammo.

This is a tragedy:

Boy, 5, high on COCAINE fatally shoots his 16-month-old brother who was high on marijuana inside Indiana home: Parents are charged with neglect

A five-year-old boy high on cocaine shot his toddler brother in the head, and prosecutors have charged their parents with neglect.

Deonta Jermaine Johnson, 27, and Shatia Tiara Welch, 24, have been charged with neglect and various drug charges after cops swooped on their property.

Prosecutors say little Isiah, 16 months, died from a gunshot wound to the head and had marijuana in his blood, while his older brother, who shot him, tested positive for cocaine.

Johnson was asleep inside the apartment at the time of the shooting. Welsh, a nursing graduate, was not present during the incident, according to authorities.

Initially, Johnson told police Isiah fell or was injured by his brother and denied owning a gun.

He claimed Isiah had not been shot before admitting the children’s mother, Welch, had a gun on the property.

Welch confirmed she owned the gun but told police that she usually kept it locked in a box under her bed but had lost a second set of keys to it.

Police found a gun in the safe under a bed but also found a gun in the drawer of a dresser on the property.

Officers also found 93 fentanyl pills, marijuana and drug paraphernalia inside the apartment when they searched it after the horror.

Welch and Johnson have been charged with neglect resulting in death, two counts of neglect and neglect resulting in bodily injury.

They have also been charged with conspiracy to commit dealing a narcotic drug, dealing a narcotic drug, possession of a narcotic, conspiracy to commit dealing marijuana, dealing marijuana, possession of marijuana and possession of paraphernalia.

The children had drugs in their system.

There were drugs everywhere.

The parents were dealing.

There were unsecured guns in the house.

Obviously, if the kids could get into the drugs, they could get into the guns.

A child is dead.

You just know that Left will blame the guns and not the drug dealing reprobate parents who let their kids fund drugs and guns in the house, and they will try to punish you for it.