General Bill by Williamson and Byrd (CO-SPONSORS) Andrade; Gregory; Hawkins; Massullo; Roach; Sabatini; Shoaf; Sirois; Yarborough
Safety of Religious Institutions: Authorizes, for specified purposes, concealed weapons or firearms licensee to carry firearm on certain property of church, synagogue, or any other religious institution.
This time it was the Criminal Justice & Public Safety Subcommittee where it passed with YEAS 14 NAYS 3.
There was some lady who came to oppose it and somehow she managed to bring the Soviets back and compare people with CWL to warfare. It got really confusing. There were also people complaining with the “How dare you bring a gun to the Lord’s house! That has never bee done!” In our side, we had Marion Hammer representing the NRA and Luis Valdez representing GOA…and that was it.
Three Democrats voted favorable for the bill and three against.
If I am not mistaken, the next stop will be the Education & Employment Committee.
so far, both the Senate and the House versions of the bills have had no troubles. Hopefully it will stay that way till it reaches the governor’s desk.
The people who say “No guns in the Lord’s house” should remember that the Pope himself has 135 machine gun toting Swiss badasses following him around the Vatican.
That, and Biblical text like Luke 22:36, where the Apostles were told to make sure they are properly armed before setting off to spread the faith.
ISTR there was a time when packing to church was required. Don’t see why that’s changed.