New Bill in Tennessee Allows Gun Owners Hurt in Gun-Free Zones to Sue

That's just wrong. If someone effects a gun free zone, you have no obligation to be there. If you make the choice to do so, you are responsible for your own act, and the possible consequences. Feel unsafe, don't go there, but don't blame someone else and expect them to pay you if you do.

Lot of bears and hogs in the grocery stores down in Tennessee?

Lot of bears and hogs in the grocery stores down in Tennessee?

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I have been to a grocery store in Gatlinburg that had a couple bears in a large observation area in the back that you can pay to see and feed. Ignorant tourists have also fed the wild bears in that area a lot making them less afraid of humans, so I wouldn't be surprised if one decided to walk into an out of the way convenience store.

Ill conceived notion, would go nowhere, cases easily dismissed or overtuned on appeal as being post hoc ergo prompter hoc. Why? because it would be almost impossible to demonstrate that having had your weapon would have prevented your injury.

I don't like GFZs, either, but if you are in a place of your own free will and able to leave at any time, the owners/operators of that place don't have a duty to protect you from malicious people. It is their responsibility to make sure that the roof doesn't cave in on patrons, that floors just mopped are marked as wet, etc., but they have no duty to vet each person who enters, nor to protect you from dangerous individuals.

Lot of bears and hogs in the grocery stores down in Tennessee?

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I don't know about Tennessee, but here in Oklahoma I've seen quite a few stray dogs make it into a grocery store. I'm sure that one of those attacking somebody is a little more plausible.

It's a stupid bill that doesn't fix the problem we have in Tennessee with no gun signs. Maybe writing a decent bill that fixes that problem would be smarter.