ADDRESS
ADDRESS THE ISSUE IS FACING TENNESSEANS A DAY FROM TEN NEWS .
THIS IS INSIDE TENNESSEE.
GOOD MORNING AND WELCOME TO
INSIDE TENNESSEE.
I'M YOUR MODERATOR JOHN BECKER
.
WE TURN OUR FOCUS ONCE AGAIN TO
THE STATE LEGISLATURE.
A BIT OF A HICCUP WITH THIS ONE
REPUBLICAN GUEST IS STUCK IN
TRAFFIC.
JASON ZACHERY SENDS HIS REGARDS
.
WE'LL HAVE HIM ON ONCE AGAIN
BUT WE ARE PLEASED TO JOIN
REPRESENTATIVE SAM MACKENZIE
WITH OUR PANELISTS DON BOSCH
AND SUSAN WILLIAMS.
MR. MACKENZIE IS NOT ONLY A
STATE REP, HE IS A PHYSICIST BY
TRADE.
HIS A VETERAN OF ORANGE AND WE
ARE GLAD TO HAVE HIM BACK IN
THE SADDLE WITH US THIS MORNING
SUSAN RICHARDSON.
WILLIAMS IS A REPUBLICAN AND
SHE RUNS HER OWN PR FIRM.
DON BOSCH IS A DEMOCRAT.
HE RUNS HIS OWN LAW FIRM.
AND MR. MACKENZIE, WE KNOW
YOU'RE A FRESHMAN BUT YOU'RE
DEEP IN THE MIDST OF THE DEBATE
THAT'S UNDER WAY IN THE STATE
LEGISLATURE AND ALSO A VETERAN
OF COMISSION YOU'VE BEEN AROUND
POLITICS FOR A LONG TIME.
I WANT TO START WITH AN ISSUE
THAT MADE HEADLINES AT THE
START OF THIS WEEK AND THAT IS
A PERMIT LIST CARRY BILL THAT
IT APPEARS THE GOVERNOR WILL
SIGN.
SO AS OF JULY ONE, ANYONE WHO
IS A LAW ABIDING GUN OWNER IN
THE STATE OF TENNESSEE WILL
EITHER BE ABLE TO PUT A PISTOL
IN THEIR POCKET OR WEAR ONE ON
THEIR HIP AND GO MANY PLACES
ACROSS THE STATE WITH NO
TRAINING AND NO NEED FOR A
PERMIT.
YOU VOTED AGAINST THAT.
WHAT STRUCK ME WAS SOME OF YOUR
REPUBLICAN COLLEAGUES SAY THIS
BILL DOES NOT GO FAR ENOUGH.
SO WHERE DO YOU THINK THIS
DISCUSSION MIGHT GO FROM HERE
IN THE WAY OF OPENING UP MORE
GUN RIGHTS FOR GUN OWNERS >>
YET YOU'RE EXACTLY RIGHT.
THEY THAT WAS THE REALLY,
REALLY SCARY PART OF IT ALL
KNOW WE HAVE HAD A PRETTY
LENIENT GUN POLICY AS FAR AS
YOU KNOW, I'VE GONE THROUGH THE
TRAINING.
IT WAS A GOOD AND IN-PERSON
TRAINING WITH THE PRACTICAL AT
THE END OF IT THEY SOFTEN THAT
UP TO MAKE IT AN ONLINE
TRAINING AND NOW IT'S NO
TRAINING, NO PERMIT REQUIRED AT
ALL.
THE LEADER MADE A VERY
INTERESTING STATEMENT AND HE
SAID WELL YOU KNOW, IT'S A ONE
TIME THING AND THAT DOESN'T
MATTER THAT THERE'S NOT MUCH
VALUE IN THAT GETTING YOUR
DRIVER'S LICENSE IS A ONE TIME
TEST BUT THERE'S SO MUCH VALUE
AND SO DO WE JUST WHEN OUR KIDS
ARE 16 JUST THROWING A LICENSE
ON THE KEYS NOW THERE IS A
PROCESS THAT THAT YOU SHOULD GO
THROUGH AND AS YOU SAID, THE
REALLY SCARY PART IS THEY
INDICATED SEVERAL PEOPLE HAVE
INDICATED THAT THEY'RE NOT DONE
WITH THIS IS ALREADY WAY, WAY
TOO LENIENT.
NO ONE'S TRYING TO TAKE A
WEAPON AWAY BUT WE'RE TRYING TO
MAKE SURE THAT THAT OUR THAT
THE PEOPLE THAT ARE CARRYING
GUNS IN AND AROUND US HAVE SOME
TYPE OF EDUCATION, SOME TYPE OF
PRACTICAL EXPERIENCE.
BUT HOW TO HANDLE THAT THAT
WEAPON.
SO >> JUST SPECIFICALLY
MORE
MORE MIGHT WE SEE IF NOT IN THIS SESSION THEN PERHAPS NEXT SESSION >>?
I'M EXTREMELY SCARED TO EVEN
THINK ABOUT OR ASK THAT
QUESTION.
YOU KNOW, I THINK IT'S JUST
GOING TO I HEARD SEVERAL TIMES
LIKE IT'S A BURTERS.
SO I THINK THEY JUST WANT TO DO
AWAY WITH ALL GUN LEGISLATION.
I KNOW THIS ONE IS IS TWENTY
ONE.
I'M HEARING SOME PEOPLE TALKING
IT DOWN TO 18 THIS ONE'S
DEALING WITH WITH HANDGUNS.
I'M HEARING PEOPLE TALK ABOUT
TAKING A LONG RIFLES, ASSAULT
RIFLES AND ADDING THAT ALSO SO
THOSE ARE PROBABLY SOME OF THE
THE THINGS THAT'S GOING TO COME
BACK BEFORE US AND I REALLY
HOPE FOLKS THINK ABOUT THIS
ENOUGH IN THE OFF SEASON AND WE
NOT TAKE THIS GUN LEGISLATION,
JUST GET RID OF ALL CONTROL OF
IT.
IT SAYS AWEIL REGULATED
MILITIA.
IF WE'RE GOING TO READ OUR
RIGHTS AND I THINK WE NEED TO
READ THEM ALL WE NEED TO
REGULATE HOW WE HAVE AND USE
OUR WEAPONS TO SOME LEVEL.
ONE >> OTHER QUESTION I'LL LET
DON AND SUSAN JUMP IN ON THESE
TWO ISSUES.
YOUR FORMER COLLEAGUES ON
COUNTY COMMISSION VOTED THIS
WEEK TO GET RID OF THE
ENFORCEMENT POWERS AS FAR AS
CREATING POLICY OF THE BOARD OF
HEALTH IN KNOX COUNTY STRIPPED
HIM OF THAT POWER, PUT THAT
POWER IN THE HEAD OF THE HEALTH
DEPARTMENT WHICH RIGHT NOW IS
DR. MARTHA BUCHANAN.
WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THAT
DECISION BY COMISSION AND WHERE
DO YOU THINK THAT GOES FROM
HERE >>?
TO BE BLUNT, >> A TERRIBLE
DECISION, A TERRIBLE DECISION
WE HAD WE HAVE TWO EXPERTS
VOLUNTERS DAUGHER TIME TO
PRESENT A LOGICAL AND
COMPREHENSIVE PLAN ON HOW WE
DEALT WITH THIS PANDEMIC OR ANY
OTHER MAJOR HEALTH EVENT.
WE DID A GOOD JOB.
I KNOW PROBABLY >> SOME
RESTAURANT OWNERS DON'T AGREE
WITH ME BUT IF YOU LOOK AT THE
TRENDS WE DID A GOOD JOB WITH
THIS BOARD OF HEALTH THAT WERE
THEY TOOK A DYNAMIC APPROACH TO
IT.
NOW IT'S IN THE HANDS OF ONE
PERSON AND THERE SHOULD BE NO
CHANGE.
BUT WHAT SCARES ME IS WHEN YOU
SEE A COUNTY COMMISSIONER OUT
IN FRONT AND A BUNCH OF POULOUS
PEOPLE CELEBRATING THAT TELLS
ME THEY WOULD HAVE DONE THINGS
DIFFERENTLY AND THEY'RE
EXPECTING SOMETHING TO BE DONE
DIFFERENTLY GOING FORWARD.
THAT'S THE SCARY PART AND THE
FACT THAT THAT THAT THEY WANT
NO REGULATIONS IN TERMS OF A OF
A ONCE IN A CENTURY PANDEMIC
MAKES ABSOLUTELY NO SENSE.
IT WAS A VERY, VERY POOR
DECISION.
THE COUNTY COMMISSION
UNFORTUNATELY BY MONDAY, DON >>
.
GO AHEAD.
SO >> SAM, ON YOUR LAST POINT,
I THINK YOU'RE BEING KIND BY
REFERRING TO COMMISSIONER
JUSTIN BIGGS.
IT'S SCARY.
I THINK IT WAS ACTUALLY
INCREDIBLY INSULTING AND AND
THE LACK OF EMPATHY TOWARDS
THOSE EVERYBODY ON THIS SHOW
HAS KNOWS PEOPLE THAT WE'VE GOT
EITHER VERY SERIOUSLY ILL OR
DIED FROM THIS PANDEMIC.
SO BUT MOVING ON FROM THAT, I
DO WANT TO TOUCH BACK ON THE
GUNS ISSUE AND YOU KNOW, THIS
IS ONE OF THOSE ISSUES THAT'S
BOTH REGULATED BY STATES AND BY
THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT.
AND IT SEEMS TO ME THAT IF
YOU'RE A REPUBLICAN
COUNTERPARTS ARE SUCCESSFUL IN
REMOVING YET FURTHER
RESTRICTIONS ON GUNS LET'S SAY
AUTOMATIC WEAPONS LET'S SAY
SILENCED WEAPONS THAT WE MAY
START TO RUN AFOUL OF FEDERAL
REGULATION.
DO YOU SEE A TIME OR AN EFFORT
JUST AS WE SAW, FOR EXAMPLE, ON
REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS WHERE THERE
WAS NO HESITATION FOR YOUR
REPUBLICAN COUNTERPARTS TO PASS
CLEARLY UNCONSTITUTIONAL LAWS
AND JUST SIT BACK AND WAIT AND
SAY FEDS BRING IT TO US AND
WE'LL TEE IT UP IN COURT.
ARE YOU CONCERNED ABOUT THOUGH
REMOVING SOME OF THOSE
PROTECTIONS?
>> WELL, YOU KNOW, I THINK
THAT'S WHAT THAT'S WHAT WE'VE
DONE.
WE'RE JUST LETTING THIS STUFF
BE TRIED IN IN COURTS.
WE PASS THESE AREAS POSSIBLE
LAWS LIKE LIKE SCHOOL VOUCHERS
AND THE COURTS HAVE TO RULE
UNCONSTITUTIONAL AND AND WITH
THIS GUN LEGISLATION I'M PRETTY
SURE IF WE LOOK AT THE UPTICK
IN THE THINGS THAT ARE GOING
IT'S SCARY.
IT'S SCARY AND >> MORE MORE
THAN LIKELY WE'LL END UP WITH
SOME TYPE OF FEDERAL OVERSIGHT
OR A BILL PASSED AT A NATIONAL
LEVEL TO ALLEVIATE SOME OF
THESE REALLY, REALLY POOR
PIECES OF LEGISLATION TO JUST
WITH WITHOUT I WILL SAY PROPER
VETTING GETS PASSED.
SUSAN >>, WE'LL LET YOU JUMP IN
HERE.
AND DON, YOU CAN