Battle For Tennessee

The NRA's Chris Cox, who grew up in Tennessee, comments on the actions of that state's House Speaker, Jimmy Naifeh.

"House Speaker Jimmy Naifeh's recent actions on self-defense votes in the Tennessee General Assembly were hypocritical and ignored the will of tens of thousands of law-abiding Tennesseans. Here's why. Speaker Naifeh enjoys round-the-clock security detail courtesy of Tennessee taxpayers — even in restaurants and bars. But yet he believes that "regular people" neither deserve, nor need, the God-given right to self-defense in restaurants."

Cox's point is that Naifeh is basing his vote on bogus data. Read the full guest column, which appeared in The Tennessean, by clicking here.