I’ve been yelling about this for quite a while:
Welcome to Kentucky. The land (one of only two states! godforsaken Texas is the other) where legislators just cold don’t care if you’re carrying a gun inside legislative chambers. It’s like they literally want to get shot in the face, for fun, just because. And we’re not talking pearls, here, gays.
Why is it house leadership is so afraid of the NRA that they cower on this? You can totally support guns – I had a goddamn NRA sticker on my truck in high school – and not want to get shot in the legislative chambers.
It can even be argued that allowing guns inside the capitol costs the Commonwealth more than keeping them out. Because the KSP assigns a trooper to shadow every person who enters with a gun. Taking a trooper away from protecting others – eating both that salary and the man hours required. Wasting time. Wasting money. Endangering lives.
And, yes, we already have metal detectors.
Stop this horse shiz before someone gets killed by some jacktard who is pissed that some fat coal legislator allegedly had an out-of-wedlock child with someone who isn’t his wife.
Completely and utterly screwed up.
It’s ridiculous that you can openly carry a gun inside legislative chambers in Frankfort.
Thank goodness people like Mary Lou Marzian (Hey, Meemaw Marzian, thanks for hollering about this) are stepping up to try to stop this crap:
A Louisville lawmaker wants parents to sign a permission slip acknowledging that they know that people carry guns at the Capitol before sending their children to Frankfort.
Rep. Mary Lou Marzian, D-Louisville, said this week that she plans to file a bill that would require parents to sign a form acknowledging that they are aware that people in the Capitol are armed. Marzian said that she realizes that the bill and other bills that she plans to file that would limit who can carry a weapon in the Capitol “doesn’t have a snow balls chance in hell of passing,” Marzian said.
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Marzian said she felt that parents should at least be aware of the Capitol’s guns rules. Under state law, visitors to the Capitol may openly carry guns and lawmakers can carry a hidden gun if they have a concealed weapons permit.
It’s shameful that both Greg Stumbo and David Williams were afraid to speak to the press about this matter. Unbelievably ignorant on their part(s) not to stand up to end this ridiculous practice in the wake of what went down in Tucson over the weekend.
David and Greg don’t have to respect their colleagues – but do they want them to DIE? Is that what they want?
Jesus H.
10 responses so far ↓
1 Richie'sMustache // Jan 11, 2011 at 2:31 pm
Hopefully none of our elected representatives practice lucid dreaming or read Karl Marx.
I’m about as pro-gun as one can get, but I don’t see the point of allowing weapons in our chambers, unless we don’t have adequate security.
However, most gun advocates think they have the right to carry their gun onto my private property, and you know how I feel about my private property!
2 Curt Morrison // Jan 11, 2011 at 3:00 pm
If only Mary Lou Marzian would primary challenge Beshear. I. WILL. WORK. FOR. FREE.
3 jake // Jan 11, 2011 at 3:48 pm
I like Marzian. But. Uh. That’s not happening. Ever.
4 Noah // Jan 11, 2011 at 4:13 pm
MLM should realize that probably half of inner city Louisville is armed when the kiddies get off the bus and have to walk home. And those armed guys probably didn’t pass the Brady Bill Clinton background check.
5 jake // Jan 11, 2011 at 4:38 pm
Is “inner city” code for “scary black people” ??
Apparently you’ve never been to the West End, which is hardly inner city.
6 Noah // Jan 11, 2011 at 7:04 pm
Glad to see you’re not disputing my point, that many neighborhoods are far more dangerous than the KY Capitol, yet these kids walk through them every day. If MLM cared about kids instead of trying to scoring cheap political points (with who I’m not sure, this is KY not New York) or unnecessarily scare parents, she would do something about deteriorating education and systemic lack of opportunity in KY.
She would also allow concealed carry by legal adults at our colleges and universities, or else send home permission slips that going to a KY state university may be dangerous in the event a lunatic opens fire and law-abiding citizens have no way to defend themselves.
7 oos1969 // Jan 11, 2011 at 9:09 pm
I’m actually almost always armed, and no one even knows it. The only places I don’t carry are the places that require me to go through a metal detector. Why, no real reason except that I can, and because I know how spread thin the local cops are. And yes, that means I carry when I go to the U of L campus, too.
8 Crutnacker // Jan 12, 2011 at 6:41 am
I can’t get the face of a 9 year old girl who was blown away out of my mind. Haven’t been able to this whole week. Unfettered access to guns is apparently worth it so that when that guy shot her in the chest, more people would be armed to blow him away.
Seriously, we live in a sick society where people can do this, and where the first reaction from the rabid gun owners is that something could have been done if more people were armed.
9 Steve Magruder // Jan 12, 2011 at 8:33 am
I’ll ignore the breathless equivalence tirades, and say this simply needs to stop. It’s yet another thing that tags this state as “backwards”.
Shouldn’t we care about the safety of our legislators? It’s offensive to me that I even need to ask this question.
10 Dino // Jan 12, 2011 at 8:45 am
Just another backwards law in KY. We ask legislators to take an oath that they have not fought in a “duel” but allow guns into the chambers.
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