Naifeh:
"Restricting and criminalizing access to over 190,000 concealed weapons permit holders records does nothing for the protection of Tennessee's 6.5 million residents."
Me:
It does damned little against them, since permit holders tend NOT to commit crimes (which would jeopardize their permits, their second-amendment rights, and their very freedom.)
It must also be said that building a database of firearms ownership (aside from being questionable legally), does nothing for the privacy of the permit holders.
Also, please explain how a law that lets one carry a sidearm into a restaurant that happens to have beer and/or wine on the menu, "perverts the right to keep and bear arms into a law that only recognizes a select few". What, you mean the select few who can afford to eat there? Or maybe the select few who choose not to cook that evening? If I carry for self-defense, why should that right be suspended as I'm eating dinner at Outback?