Louisiana Lawmakers Want Guns Everywhere: Jarvis DeBerry
We stay studying war in Louisiana. On our streets we’re steadily losing men, women, boys and girls to gunshots as sociopaths forsake aim and shoot. Meanwhile, at our state Capitol, our lawmakers are thinking of yet new places to make guns permissible. Last week House members approved a bill by Rep. Henry Burns that would allow folks with concealed carry permits to take their weapons into places that serve alcohol.
The perceived threat of gun confiscation is pushing our lawmakers to new heights of folly. Take, for example, the bill the House approved that says any federal law restricting possession and ownership of semi-automatic weapons won’t be enforced in Louisiana. Its sponsor, Rep. Jim Morris, acknowledges that it’s unconstitutional, but says he’s willing to fight the federal government on this issue even “if we have to spend every dime.”
Perhaps you see the carnage on our streets and the rush to wipe out current gun-restricted areas as two separate issues. Our gun-promoting legislators do. They see the world divided starkly, with criminals on the one side and heroes on the other. If they make any connection between what’s happening on our streets with what they’re doing in Baton Rouge, it’s to argue that the laws they’re passing will better equip good guys to deal with the bad.
Three days after 20 students and six adults were slaughtered at an elementary school in Newtown, Conn., Alan Jacobs, an evangelical Christian professor at Wheaton College in Illinois, lamented the vision of society that’s being promoted by gun advocates, one “in which we no longer have genuine neighbors, only potential enemies” we can keep in line with our weaponry.
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