Re-defining Parks As “Child Care Facilities” In Order To Ban Guns
By Cam Edwards
When gun control activists can’t change the law, they’ll try to change the definition of words instead. Semi-automatic firearms become “assault weapons.” Gun control becomes “gun safety.” And in St. Louis, parks may soon become “child care facilities.”
A move is underway at City Hall to designate St. Louis parks as child care facilities so they’re exempt from a Missouri law allowing people to carry concealed firearms without permits and training.
A bill to be introduced Friday by Alderman Cara Spencer, D-20th Ward, also would require signs explaining the gun prohibition to be posted at all park entrances, parking areas, playgrounds and sports fields.
“It’s time to push the envelope here,” Spencer said Thursday. “The state Legislature doesn’t understand the level of gun violence here.”
There’s “pushing the envelope” and there’s “completely twisting language,” and Cara Spencer’s proposal does more of the latter than the former. It’s absolutely true that St. Louis is one of the most violent cities in the nation. It’s also absolutely absurd to think that the gang violence is going to stop because the city declares public parks “gun free zones.”
Under state law, child care facilities are among various locations in which the carrying of guns can …Read the Rest
Source:: Bearing Arms
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