Anti-Gun Utah Lawmaker’s ‘Psychological’ Reasons Insufficient

By Tom Knighton

There are facts and there are feelings. When it comes to politics, those are the two things that you tend to find.

Most of the time, those who are driven by feelings at least admit they’re driven by them. They’ll think you’re a cold, unfeeling bastard because you think people should have to get a job. You’re heartless because you think people should come in this country legally. Things like that.

However, sometimes a lawmaker will try to act like his feelings are something else, and that’s what happened in Utah recently.

You see, a measure was defeated that would have made it illegal to openly carry a firearm within 500 feet of a school. Now, that’s about a tenth of a mile, but some lawmakers thought that was reasonable. Others disagreed.

A bill that would prohibit people from openly carrying a gun within 500 feet of any K-12 school in Utah was defeated in committee Wednesday after complaints from gun lobbyists and Republican lawmakers.

It would punish hunters, one man argued. It would put more restrictions on law-abiding gun owners than convicted sex offenders, said another. It wouldn’t stop a would-be school shooter anyway, suggested a third.

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Source:: Bearing Arms

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