No due process required
In Tennessee:
More than 150 people, most in conflict with women, have had their handgun carry permits suspended as a result of a Channel 4 I-Team investigation.
The investigation not only exposed people served with orders of protection allowed to have handgun carry permits despite a state law but also a major hole in a system to protect domestic violence victims.
It’s a hole that’s now closing.
To try to protect people — mostly women — from gun violence, there’s a state law that says anyone served with an order of protection must have his or her handgun carry permit suspended for the length of that order.
Men in Davidson County served with orders of protection, some ordered to undergo anger management classes, were found to have been allowed to keep their handgun carry permits.
The paper makes it sound like it’s a major crisis. But that’s 160 out of over 190,000.
December 22nd, 2008 at 10:43 am
and revocation of their carry permits will stop them from carrying and potentially using their guns, how?
Do these media moron think that a gun cannot be used once a carry permit is revoked? That someone who wants to kill their spouse and has anger issues might just ignore the bloody law and carry anyway. That a piece of paper called a restraining order acts as a magic talisman protecting the bearer from all harm. Are they really that stupid. I suspect they are.
December 22nd, 2008 at 10:56 am
It’s perfectly fine to ignore numbers in cases like these…”if it saves just one life” which it can’t.
December 22nd, 2008 at 2:56 pm
“Do these media moron think that a gun cannot be used once a carry permit is revoked? That someone who wants to kill their spouse and has anger issues might just ignore the bloody law and carry anyway. That a piece of paper called a restraining order acts as a magic talisman protecting the bearer from all harm. Are they really that stupid. I suspect they are.”
The media either really is that stupid or they believe that Joe Average is stupid enough to believe the media’s spiel.
December 22nd, 2008 at 6:06 pm
No mention if protection orders are issued as a matter of course in divorce proceedings, like they are in some states.
December 24th, 2008 at 4:20 am
Want to REALLY save women’s lives? Encourage more of *them* to get concealed carry permits and exercise their full 2A rights!! Why don’t their investigative reporters go chase THAT story, too.