According to Firearm Chronicles
If we learned anything after the attempted shooting in White Settlement, Texas, it’s that armed citizens can and do stop potential mass murderers. Hero Jack Wilson put down the would-be killer as quickly as possible, thus eliminating the threat and saving an untold number of lives.
It became clear at that moment that guns in churches save lives.
I suspect that played in at least some Louisiana lawmakers’ minds as they pondered a bill that would allow people to carry in churches without having to beg for permission first. After all, narrow-minded clergy may well say no, thus relegating their congregations to a pool of potential victims rather than just worshippers.
The bill, however, is getting opposition from anti-gun media in the state.
In the name of gun rights, a ridiculous measure was launched in the Legislature, overriding the pastor and congregation of any church and forcing it to allow firearms in places of worship.
Another bill would, without regard to local views or conditions, overrule decisions by cities or parishes on sensible gun control regulations. Yet another bill would not allow authorities to regulate firearms during a state of emergency.
Extremism is on the march, in a Legislature that has vastly more important things to do.
What are these bills doing even being heard in committee in a session during which the state is struggling with a pandemic of a deadly disease? Great question.
I don’t know, but I do wonder if you’re asking Sen. Richard Blumenthal the same question.