Guns in Parks
Council votes for guns in city parks
Jackson City Council members voted 7-2 Tuesday not to support a resolution that asks state legislators to kill a bill that would give some residents the right to carry a firearm onto city-owned property.
Tony Black, director of the city’s Recreation and Parks Department, brought the resolution before the council. Black told council members that a proposed state law would allow gun owners with state-issued concealed weapons permits to bring firearms into city parks and public recreation facilities.
Good.
June 6th, 2007 at 5:46 pm
‘Course, criminals without permits can bring guns anywhere they choose, so its a question of whether the government will maintain the criminals’ monopoly on gun possession.
June 7th, 2007 at 1:04 pm
I used to live in Jackson, and I know Tony Black. He’s a genuinely nice guy, but he was certainly wrong about the resolution. I don’t know that I’d put any particular anti-gun animus on him in this situation, as he is very committed to keeping the city parks in Jackson as an open, safe place for the public. I think his idea is wrong-headed by trying to keep lawful CCP holders from carrying, though. Good guy, bad idea.