Things in Memphis are interesting. A month ago, Memphis city council decided to put a referendum on the fall ballot to require people who carry weapons to be licensed to do so, to prohibit the sale of AR-15s, and to require weapons to be locked in containers when traveling or staying in the City of Memphis.
Here is the catch, from what I have been told, the State Law won’t allow any of those to happen. So the state told Memphis that they will lose sales tax dollars if they move forward with the referendum, so the County election board stated that they would not include it on the ballot. Now the City of Memphis is suing the County Election Board.
While all this is happening, a Memphis Judge released a person without bond who is being charged with murder over the shooting at a local business that started as an argument over a parking space. Apparently he does not believe in bonds.
Memphis crime is out of control and the Police are doing everything they can, but the system there does not seem to hold anyone accountable and the society just appears to promote more crime.
Personally, I would support the state changing the law to require a permit to conceal carry and have a training requirement with it. But the law change should be done the right way, and the way Memphis is going about it isn’t the right way.