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Early voting kicks off later this week in Tennessee’s Republican primary, and the race for the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate is one to keep an eye on. Senator Lamar Alexander is retiring, and the open seat has attracted dozens of candidates on both sides of the aisle who are vying to replace him. Given Tennessee politics, it’s likely that the winner of the GOP primary will win in the general election, and at the moment two Republican candidates seem to be standing out from the rest of the field.
Former U.S. Ambassador to Japan Bill Hagerty, a Tennessee businessman, has the endorsement of President Donald Trump and much of the state’s political establishment, but Dr. Manny Sethi, an orthopedic trauma surgeon from Nashville is making a strong impression on voters, and his campaign says internal polling shows the race within the margin of error at the moment. Sethi’s also picked up some endorsements of his own, including Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky.
Dr. Sethi joins me on Bearing Arms’ Cam & Co. today to talk about his experience growing up in rural Tennessee as the son of immigrant doctors, and how that experience helped to shape his views on the Second Amendment. Not only was Sethi raised in a culture of responsible gun ownership, after a threat to himself and his family about six years ago, the doctor purchased a Glock handgun, got his concealed carry license, and continues to train regularly.
Sethi has seen firsthand the impact of violent crime and misuse of firearms, but he’s not your stereotypical anti-gun medical professional. Far from it, as a matter of fact. The surgeon tells me that, in his opinion, gun control laws like a ban on so-called assault weapons or red flag laws aren’t just unconstitutional, they actually impede efforts to address the roots causes of violent crime.