Under a Gibbous Moon

A judge in Tennessee has recently blocked blocked a new law that would allow CCW permit holders to carry their firearms into establishments that served alcohol as long as it received more than half of its profits from food sales.

The judge agreed with the suing parties on the grounds that the law was ambiguous. To a certain extent, I would agree since it could be difficult looking at a place as to whether or not they met the required amount of food sales (though this is done in other states)

What I find humorous is what Randy Rayburn who led the charge against this law said:

We will have vigilantes shooting up bars all over.

Now according to Mr. Webster the definition of a vigilante is:

A member of a volunteer committee organized to suppress and punish crime summarily (as when the processes of law are viewed as inadequate); broadly : a self-appointed doer of justice

So apparently, Mr. Rayburn is afraid of self-appointed do-gooders invading his cafes and scaring off all of his criminal clientele.

Of course instead of feeding the lawyers he could have just put up a sign on the door that said no firearms allowed. It still is private property after all.

I’ve put in a huge push on my novel in the last two days. I had fallen far behind to to my accident. In the last 48 hours I’ve written 7,824 words more words. This brings me to a grand total of 43,037 words. I have less than 7K words left until I reach the 50K word mark.

This would not be a problem except that I have exactly ONE (1) chapter left to write. Not only is it just one measly chapter but it is only one scene. It is the epilogue. Now the prologue for the novel clocked it at just slightly over 1K words so I don’t think that there is any way to stretch this out to 7K. I would say at best I might get 2K words out of it leaving me with a finished novel somewhere around 45K words.

At that point I’m going to have to figure out what I’m going to do next. Do I go back an add in additional scenes? Expand upon what I have already written?

At the very least, I will finish the epilogue tomorrow which will leave me with at least 5 days to figure it out. I feel at least moderately confident that I will be able to scrape together something.