Now that the CCW law is signed in WI, and due to go into effect in a little over two months, the Journal Sentinel and politicians are scrambling to find ways to make places off-limits. Special points should go to former Republican Senate Majority Leader Dale Schultz for helping in this effort.
While nearly all states ban carry in public buildings, the arguments for such bans have always been stupid. The Journal Sentinel is straining to come up with new ways of regurgitating the same old bunk.
Here's a sampling:
Waukesha Common Council President Paul Ybarra points out that public debates sometimes get pretty heated. So do public hearings, some of which go on for hours and involve a lot of angry words. Granted, shootouts aren't likely to break out, but allowing guns into the mix of heated politics and angry words still isn't a good idea.
Yeah. At least Burr and Hamilton had the sense to have their duel outside public buildings, as they figured some dingbats would probably try to prohibit carry if they'd been inside.
In Milwaukee, the city's Library Board has voted to ban guns in all 13 Milwaukee Public Library buildings. And Milwaukee Ald. Milele Coggs introduced three Common Council measures dealing with dangerous weapons.
Yes, we all know how heated arguments can get in libraries, especially if one of the librarians asks a patron not to whistle. You never know when someone is going to snap after reading "Field and Stream", and just starts blasting away.
The rest of the editorial is
here.
I hope I live long enough to see the day when all states have had shall-issue CCW for years, the debates have died down, and silliness like this moves on to another topic, such as the renewal of the 10 year-old federal ban on cheeseburgers.
