Tim Burchett says he doesn’t see a role for Congress in preventing tragedies ‘other than mess things up’ after Nashville shooting
But Burchett has not always had such a laissez-faire attitude toward crime nor such a cynical attitude toward legislators’ role.
In 2006, while serving in the Tennessee state legislature, he sponsored legislation to ban salvia divinorum, an herb with psychoactive properties. “It’s not that popular,” Burchett said of the“In certain hands, it could be very dangerous, even lethal.”attributed a “violent crime spike” to “liberal soft-on-crime policies and the radical Defund the Police movement”.
Burchett has introduced one piece of legislation related to public safety during his tenure in Congress: the 2019 “”. The bill sought to create “a new criminal civil rights violation for wearing a disguise while interfering with another person’s exercise of a protected right or privilege”. Had it passed, the bill would have punished people committing crimes while wearing masks with prison sentences of up to 15 years.
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