If you’ve been reading my site for any amount of time, you know that I suffer from depression. If I’m not writing or recording, there’s a 90% chance I’m dealing with depression. Typically, the only thing I can do is wait it out. However, there is one thing that can snap me out of a depression quicker than anything, anger. I’m not talking about anger, like driving away while leaving your coffee on the car roof. I’m talking about deep-seated anger over a governmental fuck-up of monumental proportions that could have violent repercussions for generations. It also doesn’t help that it’s one of the most obviously idiotic ideas ever vomited forth from the polluted minds of politicians.
So, what am I talking about, I’m sure you’re wondering. Well, Republicans in the Wisconsin State Assembly have passed legislation that would lower the concealed carry age from 21 to 18. But we’re not done. The legislation also allows anybody legally allowed to own a gun to have it in their car when dropping off or picking up their kids from school. But wait, there’s more. This legislation would allow anyone 18 and over to keep a gun in their car while at school. This legislation was passed in a week when there were three fucking school shootings in the country.
The author of the legislation, Republican State Representative Shae Sortwell, argues that since kids can vote at 18, they should be able to carry guns.
“They are mature enough, they are adult enough to make these decisions and yet we are going to deny them the basic human right of self-defense?” Sortwell said.
No, no, they’re not mature enough. When I think about what I was doing when I was 18, if a gun had been involved, someone would have most assuredly died. Not only that, but how many school shooters were 18-years-old or older? A lot. This also puts countless guns on school grounds that could be stolen to be used in a school shooting.
Obviously, Representative Sortwell must believe in the good guy with a gun myth. So what happens if a school shooting breaks out at a Wisconsin school? Will a bunch of these so-called good guys go running to their cars to retrieve their guns? Then what? Not only will you have a shootout between numerous inexperienced teenagers, but the police won’t be able to tell between the good guys with guns and the bad guys with guns. That could lead to the wrong gunman being shot and killed by police, which I’m sure Rep. Sortwell probably considers an acceptable loss as long as there are guns in the hands of every 18-year-old Wisconsinite.
Thankfully, this is nothing more than the lowest common denominator of a way of appealing to a Republican voter base that seems to be made up largely of uneducated hicks, and the “responsible gun owners™” who are constantly looking for a reason to shoot someone. The legislation will more than likely be vetoed by Democratic Governor Tony Evers.
Source: Republicans vote to allow 18-year-olds to carry concealed weapons on school property
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