ConstitutionSo the same folks who want to require a birth certificate to register to vote also want to remove the birth certificate requirement to apply for or renew a handgun carry permit (see HB 2718 by Rep. Stacey Campfield, R-Knoxville).

Someone’s priorities are way screwed up not to mention unpatriotic and dangerous.

And if their argument is that by requiring a birth certificate we make it more difficult to exercise a basic Constitutional right, then why doesn’t that logic apply to all Constitutional rights?

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According to Stephen Colbert, the Memphis Commercial Appeal “has no right to reveal who has concealed gun permits…” because it “undermines the long tradition of going to a government office and waiting patiently until any desire for information is crushed by nameless bureaucrats who measure their workdays in geologic time…”

Oh yeah. There’s more. And now Tennessee is on his radar.

Memphis Senator Beverly Marrero disagrees:

“I don’t understand why, if you want to have a handgun permit, which is your right, that you’d be so concerned about people knowing about that….If I had a handgun permit or if I had a gun in my house, I’d have a big ol’ sign out in my front yard saying, ‘Don’t mess with this woman. She’s got a gun.’”

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