“General Sessions Court Judge Bob Moon said Friday that crime in Chattanooga ‘has become so rampant that it is no longer possible for the police department to protect our citizens.’ He told a woman who had been pulled from her car and beaten in the head that she or her mother needed to ‘purchase a weapon, obtain a gun permit and learn to protect yourself.’ The woman moved back in with her mother after the May 4 incident on E. 17th Street. Judge Moon said, ‘The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that all citizens have a right to purchase a weapon to defend themselves, their families and their homes — unless there is some disqualification that prevents them from owning a weapon.’” (06/27/08)