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The Scoop 10-6
We took aim and halted meth labs
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It's evidently very easy to flail our arms and claim nothing can be done to inoculate America from our chronic disease of gun deaths.To prove legislation can in fact be crafted to solve major issues facing society, allow me to tell the story of Tennessee's meth lab epidemic, which is no longer an epidemic at all.If you recall, in the late 1990s and early 2000s, meth labs were everywhere in Warren County. Here at the Standard, we couldn't make it two weeks without a meth lab making the paper. Meth labs were so prevalent, our fine town was commonly ridiculed as MethMinnville.Then something odd, strange and curious happened.