The controversy over City of Memphis leaders wanting to suppress Second Amendment rights in opposition to state law is headed to court.
For months, the city declared its intent to flaunt Tennessee’s preemption law, which places gun control responsibilities squarely in the hands of the state. In recent days, the referendum proposed for the November ballot was rejected by both the Secretary of State and the Shelby County Election Commission.
Memphis politicians wanted to ask voters to ban so-called “assault rifles,” nullify constitutional carry in the metropolitan area, and create a localized “red flag” process.
State law preempts all of these actions, and last week, the city withdrew the referendum request after it was threatened with losing its share of Tennessee’s sales tax revenue.
Now, City Council Chairman J.B. Smiley has announced a lawsuit filed against the Shelby County Election Commission. He claimed the city would not back away from the attempted referendum.
Councilwoman Jerri Green’s smearing of the state’s opposition as unpatriotic and un-Christian fueled the raging debate.
And in a press conference, fellow Councilwoman Pearl Eva Walker accused state officials of causing damage to the Memphis community. Some studies cite the city as the most violent in the nation and one of the most dangerous across the globe.
Walker asked, “Why do you want us not to be safe? Why do you want us to be poor?…Why do you want to break this community? Because where we are with this gun violence and these ridiculous laws, we cannot sustain like this.”
As is regularly the case, local officials seek to lay the blame for violent crime anywhere but on the violent criminal. Memphis’ leadership believes they have the right to nullify both state law and the Second Amendment in the name of doing “something” to control their citizens’ actions.
Ripping guns out of the hands of law-abiding citizens will do nothing to solve Memphis’ rampant crime problem. Instead, it will leave the good people defenseless.
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