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Friday, December 14, 2012

INSANE MI Legislators - OK to Have Guns in Classrooms


This post is wrong - based on bad information in the press.
Please see - my other blog entry. 


By Scott Keyes on Dec 14, 2012 at 1:58 pm

On Thursday, one day before the tragedy in Connecticut where at least 29 people were killed at an elementary school, the Republican-controlled Michigan legislature passed a bill that would allow people to bring guns into schools.

Amidst a lameduck session that has spawned a host of right-wing legislation, including a so-called “right-to-work” law and an extreme abortion ban, a “sweeping rewrite of Michigan’s concealed handgun law” was also approved yesterday. The legislation changes Michigan’s gun laws in a number of ways, including making it easier for people to receive a gun permit and opening up “gun free zones,” including schools and elsewhere, to people carrying concealed firearms.





By Zack Beauchamp posted from ThinkProgress Justice on Dec 14, 2012 at 4:35 pm

Hours after the terrible shooting in a Newtown, Connecticut elementary school, the Michigan House Republicans issued demanded that Governor Rick Snyder (R) sign a bill that would make it easier for people to receive a gun permit and open up “gun free zones,” including schools. A statement attributed to Press Secretary Ari B. Adler shrugged off any link between guns in schools and school shootings:
 

This post is wrong - based on bad information in the press
Please see - my other blog entry. 

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