Tennessee Senate passes bills legalizing switchblades : “With no debate, senators voted today to legalize switchblades and all knives and possibly swords with blades longer than four inches.”
‘Guns in Trunks’ Bill Set to Pass : “A Tennessee bill allowing gun owners to keep weapons in their vehicles in parking lots at work, school or government offices is set to win final approval from state lawmakers as early as Thursday.”
Tennessee House approves bill making handgun-carry permits secret : “The state House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved a bill Monday night that makes secret virtually all information about Tennessee handgun-carry permit holders except non-identifying statical reports.”
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I knew I loved Tennessee for a reason. (several actually). Good job
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ug! m.d. you’re killin me! my county just drank the kool-aid and raised taxes, again. pretty soon i’ll HAVE to sell out.
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The only selling out I see you doing is to move to a better place.
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I like the direction your folks are taking. Too bad we have to do it. Ours are still trying to be more like the “big boys” and forget we are, by definition, a rural fly-over state.
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I CAN NOT wait to move back to TN. I kick myself in the “you know what” everytime I think about it… should have never moved away to begin with!!! Hopefully it won’t be too much longer and I can be a resident “Vol” again.
Molon Labe
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We may well have to move to Tenn -good for you folks !!! Arlene
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Pretty soon they will close the gates on TN. And we don’t want nun a you furaners in AL!
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Lol better add Texas to that list too. Luckily we’re having a drought and most of them furaners pass out in 100 degree heat. Not too mention the snakes and spiders we have.
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There is 4 kinds of poisonous snakes in the US..I have 3 on 1 acre..Tx don’t have a corner on the snakes… I’ll send you some more if’n you want them….:>)..You can keep the 100 degree junk, we had a nuff’ that last couple of yrs.
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m.d., my NG buddies from out that way went back and forth across the border to do stuff like shopping etc. can you tell us why they were doing that? does tn have car tax? real estate taxes? sales tax? i remember they delighted in playing the tax dodging game. i’m looking at a spot in hancock county on the border. probly take a trip out as soon as it warms up to take a look around. i can play the game too ;)
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Yes. We have a sales tax (about 9%) and property taxes, which are pretty low compared to the blue states. We live in a 5 bdr rm/4bath house on 13 acres and the property tax was less than $1500.00 last year. There is NO state income tax except on some form of out of state investment. I live in mountains of E TN close to North Carolina … love it.
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I will have to say I am glad I live Utah. It is not perfect but close. Great Gun Laws, Land is cheap and we Drill,Drill,Drill. They are Drilling new wells all the time. Now if we could get around all the EPA laws we could refine more to bring the price down.
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But Orwellian, I was just up there. Might as well be in the Hamptons…too many tourists and summer people and newcomers are faced with higher prices. It’s beautiful but I fear it will be difficult to maintain security in a SHTF situation.
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We tend to be some of the tourists but I stay away from the touristy spots like Gatlinburg. We enjoy some of the lesser known areas, but people have begun to find them too.
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I guess if I were to live East of the Mississippi River, Tennessee will need to be the location to consider.
I reckon that the locals would not be too likely to accept an influx of ‘newcomers’ though.
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G -ma and everyone-In the small town we live near in upstate NY we have garter snakes and American water snakes and the spotted otter-
corn and milk snakes- none of them poisonous .In NJ where we farmed their were copperheads and king snakes .We were born and raised in NYS and the locals here didnt wave to us for at least 5 years -so we understand local folks have their ways.Finally now many folks are coming around to out weird thinking of 40 years ago -grass fed beef,organic farming,natural bee keeping abd educating our children at home. God bless- Arlene
Remember we are all outsiders -after all the Native Americans
were here first.
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Home Sweet Home Tennessee.
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Rocky Top! Tenneessee
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