Vendor Writing: THEY'RE BAAAACK!

THEY'RE BAAAACK!

BY JEN A.

The Tennessee legislature is back in session. A brief glance at the first few bills up for consideration from this supposed esteemed body, most notably SB0001, should send chills up the spine of everyone in the state who believes in freedom and parental rights. Oh sure, you can buy and openly carry a lethal gun without a permit. There's no need training in its safe use and storage. Wherever you go in the state, you will not be held responsible or accountable if you leave it lying around and it's stolen or your six year old takes it to school and shoots themself, their teacher or their classmates with it. That's just fine. As of today, Jan. 12, 2023, there have been nine fatal shootings in the greater Nashville area. But if you're a male child who, because of their individual, personal biology, believes they're a female, or a female child who believes they're male, AND IS A DANGER TO NO ONE, that's just too much for Tennessee to abide. Whatever the priorities of our legislators are — like persecuting transgender children with SB0001 — keeping Tennessee families safe from gun violence is not one of them. They're more interested in looking up our skirts and defining a biological process that is not easily defined. The development of a human being is complicated and subject to any manner of genetic presentations. Magicians work their magic by distracting our attention with some frivolous gesture before they pull a rabbit out of their hat. We need to show Tennessee legislators we're on to their tricks. Contact your state legislator and ask them what they intend to do about the carnage caused by the proliferation of guns onto our streets. Their policies made that possible. Do they truly believe that the life of every Tennessean is sacred? Nine of our neighbors were shot dead in the first twelve days of 2023.