shouldn’t we be calling it Jeanne Assam’s law?
Shouldn’t we name bills after heroes, when we can? Isn’t that better than naming them posthumously after an innocent victim?
Louisiana’s governor Bobby Jindal signed House Bill 1272 into law that allows “any church, synagogue, mosque, or other similar place of worship” to exercise control over who may carry firearms in defense of the congregation. That means it would be legal for someone in Louisiana to be a hero just like Jeanne Assam was at the New Life Church in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
As you can expect, the left side of the “separation of church and state” crowd doesn’t like this slight relaxation of the laws concerning churches one bit. You’ll get all the usual “blood running in the pews” and “fights over parking spaces ending in gunfire” scenarios that somehow never really pan out as true. I won’t link to that crap, but if you want to find it, they’re calling it the “guns in churches bill”. Knowing that, you don’t need anything higher than a white belt in “search engine-fu” to find all the hand wringing you want.
Let the anti-freedom crowd pick the catch-phrases, and you’re fighting an unfair fight with one hand tied behind your back. I know what I’m going to call HB 1272.
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Jeanne Assam has a blog and a book out.
nola.com published a link to the bill. Thanks, I’m always bashing the MSM for not doing that.
You can find the text of the bill (linked as a pdf) on this page, and it’s a compact 3 pages of double spaced text and the usual wide margins, so you just know it was meant to be read by the voters.
