Isn’t it telling how so many gun rights opponents openly and consistently fight against the ability to defend oneself, loved ones, and property? Last week, a pair of Tennessee lawmakers, despite fierce opposition, pushed legislation through the Senate and House to enhance these freedoms.
The bill would allow law-abiding citizens to resort to deadly force to protect their belongings.
According to the text, “Property owners will be allowed to use deadly force to prevent someone from attempted or actual trespass, arson, damage to property, including damage to livestock, burglary, theft, robbery, or aggravated cruelty to animals.”
Volunteer State residents are currently limited in their lawful response to a robbery
State Rep. Kip Capley (R) and Sen. Joey Hensley sponsored the legislation to broaden protections for law-abiding residents under attack.
“Right now under current law, if someone is breaking into your property, if they’re stealing from you, if they’re destroying what you’ve worked your entire life to build, you’re expected to wait,” Capley declared. “You’re expected to hesitate. You’re expected to second-guess and take a calculated risk at defending what’s yours.”
Surely that is not what the Founding Fathers intended when they crafted the Second Amendment.
Opponents believe personal property is not worth defending
Of course, there was opposition from the anti-gun gallery. Rep. Justin Pearson (D) said that someone after a person’s property is “not putting at risk an innocent human life.”
The assumption is that he’s talking about the victim and not the violent criminal.
“What this legislation seems to be doing is lowering that threshold significantly and substantially, and the department is going to have to reteach in future classes for those who get their lifetime permit that you can now kill people over property, and I don’t think that is right.”
The bill cleared both chambers along party lines.
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