
The Tennessee Firearms Association is considering suing the the City of Knoxville over its banning handgun permit holders from Chilhowee Park in during the Tennessee Valley Fair.
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The city of Knoxville’s assertion that Chilhowee Park is not a park while World’s Fair Park is a park rings hollow, said Liston Matthews of the Tennessee Firearms Association. “On page 6 of the Tennessee Valley Fair Guidebook, Mayor Rogero calls Chilhowee Park a park,” Matthews said.
“This year marks the fair’s 96th year, and we are proud this takes place at the City’s own Chilhowee Park. For more than a century, this park has been a mecca for public recreation and entertainment. You might notice some park improvements this year ...” Rogero wrote in the guidebook.
Matthews said, “Then her legal team declares it is not a park. So, it was a park, then it wasn’t a park. Chilhowee Park is managed by the City’s Public Assembly Facilities Department and World’s Fair Park is managed by the Public Building Authority. Neither of those is Parks and Recreation, yet one manages a park that’s not a park and the other manages a park that is a park,” he said.
. . . there is a paradox, and we must grasp both ends of the situation: We may well be in the most violent times in history, but violence is still remarkably rare. This is because most citizens are kind, decent people who are not capable of hurting each other, except by accident or under extreme provocation. They are sheep. . . I mean nothing negative by calling them sheep. . . There are evil men in this world and they are capable of evil deeds. The moment you forget that or pretend it is not so, you become a sheep. There is no safety in denial. . .I heard a gentleman call in to Tom Gresham's Guntalk several years ago who likened himself to a porcupine. Note that the porcupine never bothers anyone. He just goes about his business, but, if attacked, he asks permission from no one, he just employs his natural weapons and defends himself.
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