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Opinion: Heated rhetoric escalates ahead of Tennessee legislative session on public safety

Michael Louis Slebodnik via The New York Times / In an undated handout photo, some of the 772 guns collected in exchange for gift cards at a Gun By Gun buyback event in another city are pictured.
Michael Louis Slebodnik via The New York Times / In an undated handout photo, some of the 772 guns collected in exchange for gift cards at a Gun By Gun buyback event in another city are pictured. Michael Louis Slebodnik via The New York Times / In an undated handout photo, some of the 772 guns collected in exchange for gift cards at a Gun By Gun buyback event in another city are pictured.

By Clint Cooper 5 min read

It’s about to get a lot hotter, and we’re not talking about the temperature outside.

No, we’re talking about about the rhetoric ahead of the special called session of the Tennessee General Assembly beginning Aug. 21.

A headline dated Monday in the Tennessee Conservative, “Gov. Lee Meets With Democrat Lawmakers Behind Closed Doors To Discuss Gun Control Legislation,” tipped us off.

From that, we guess we are to assume:

› The Republican governor is plotting with Democrats to take away your guns.