Knoxville, Tennessee is at the junction of Interstates 40 and 75. Motorists travelling from New York to Atlanta or the Gulf Coast would pass through Knoxville as the most direct route. But New Yorkers are advised to be very, very careful to observe the speed limit when passing through Knoxville and the great State of Tennessee. The Tennessee General Assembly has stated, in HJR085,
. . . we remind the citizens of New York, especially those residing in New York City, to drive carefully through the great State of Tennessee, paying extra attention to our speed limits.
What has caused this unusual turn of events? An innocent Tennessee woman, Meredith Graves, dared to enter New York City with a handgun in her purse. When she went to the World Trade Center Memorial and saw a "No Guns" sign, she asked where she could check her gun. That landed her in the slammer facing a New York felony gun posession charge.
So now, the Tennessee General assembly has urged the State of New York
. . . to use common sense and sound judgment in the disposition of the case against Meredith Graves.
The Tennessee General Assembly has thus given new meaning to the term reciprocity.
If New York successfully pursues this case against Graves, they will have succeeded in ending the career of someone who naively committed a victimless crime, while trying to do the right thing.
It is time for the Big Apple to get rid of the politicians who perpetuate this rottenness of depriving good citizens of the ordinary benign act of possessing arms for personal defense.
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