Tennessee
Tennessee governor to address gun reform, public safety in special session
Tennessee Gov. Invoice Lee (R) is ready to name a particular session of the state legislature to handle gun reform and public security following a college capturing in Nashville practically a month in the past.
Through the particular session, which Lee’s workplace introduced Friday, the governor hopes to go laws that can “strengthen public security and protect constitutional rights.”
“After a lot enter from members of the Common Meeting and discussions with legislative management, now we have determined to name a particular session to proceed our work to guard Tennessee communities and protect constitutional rights,” Lee mentioned in an announcement.
“There’s broad settlement that harmful, unstable people who intend to hurt themselves or others shouldn’t have entry to weapons,” he continued. “We additionally share a robust dedication to preserving Second Modification rights, guaranteeing due course of and addressing the guts of the issue with strengthened psychological well being sources.”
Lee mentioned he appears ahead to working with the legislature to “pursue considerate, sensible options to maintain Tennesseans protected.”
The Republican governor made a pitch to lawmakers earlier this week for an “order of safety” regulation — which might take firearms away from these deemed a threat to others.
“Tennesseans are asking us to put aside politics and private pleasure,” he advised state lawmakers on Wednesday. “They’re relying on us to do the correct factor.”
Regardless of the trouble, the legislature adjourned Friday with no motion on gun reform. State Rep. John Ray Clemmons (D) lamented that he and his colleagues didn’t take up any payments concerning public security, calling it a “full breach of our legislative responsibility.”
“It’s actually unlucky that we’re dashing to adjourn our state legislature on solely the twenty seventh legislative day of the session after we’re allowed 90 legislative days per session and haven’t taken up a single gun security invoice,” he tweeted on Friday. “This failure is a whole breach of our legislative responsibility.”
Renewed requires motion in opposition to gun violence come after three kids and three grownup employees members died from gunshot wounds final month when a 28-year-old armed with two assault-style weapons and a handgun opened fireplace in a personal Christian college.
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KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WVLT) – Childhelp Tennessee spent Sunday afternoon delivering Thanksgiving food baskets to 200 families across Knoxville and East Tennessee as a part of the annual Thanksgiving Basket Brigade.
Chad Schollaert, a Childhelp board member, said the boxes primarily went to foster families, where there’s a greater need for donations.
“Foster children, a lot of times they’re not coming from a stable environment. So, having a Thanksgiving meal with a family is extremely important and so is just being able to show stability and family atmosphere,” Schollaert said.
Schollaert said an effort like this takes months of planning and coordinating both meals and volunteers ahead of the big day.
“It’s been an effort for the last several months getting coordinating volunteers to deliver the meals, getting the meals. I know the staff here at Childhelp have been talking to board members and recruiting others to deliver the boxes,” Schollaert said.
Schollaert added that Childhelp is always looking for more volunteers because the more volunteers they have, the more children get help. He also said there are several other events and fundraising opportunities throughout the year. Click here for more information.
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Could the Tennessee Volunteers end up hosting a first round college football playoff game?
After the loss to Georgia, it looked like Tennessee was going to need some help to get their way back into the playoff, and they got more than enough help on Saturday. Alabama lost to Oklahoma, Ole Miss lost to Florida and Indiana lost to Ohio State. Three teams that were ranked ahead of Tennessee opened up a playoff spot for them this week.
Not only did it get the Volunteers back into the playoffs, it might have put them in a position to host a first round playoff game. A few things would need to happen and a lot of it will depend on what happens during conference championship week, but it’s certainly a possibility.
The five-seed, the six-seed, the seven-seed and the eight-seed all get to host for the first round. As of right now, it looks like Notre Dame is going to take one of those slots. The winner of Texas A&M vs Texas plays Georgia in the SEC Championship Game and the loser of that might take one of those spots as well. An Oregon vs Ohio State rematch is looking likely for the Big 10 Conference Championship and you would have to imagine that the loser of that game would take a host spot as well. So as of right now, it’s looking like there might only be one host spot up for grabs in the playoffs and Tennessee very well could be the team to snag it as an eighth seed.
More clarity will be provided about this when the rankings are released this Tuesday but the Volunteers had a very successful weekend of college football, needless to say.
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