Completely Unnecessary

This, right here, is why people in Australia look at me and say, ‘What is wrong with your country?’

In response to recent campus shootings, State Senator Karen S. Johnson has proposed a bill to allow concealed weapons on the campuses of Arizona’s public colleges and universities.

The police, she said, respond too slowly to such incidents and, besides, who better than the people staring down the barrel to take action?

She initially wanted her bill to cover all public schools, kindergarten and up, but other lawmakers convinced her it stood a better chance of passing if it were limited to higher education.

“I feel like our kindergartners are sitting there like sitting ducks,” Ms. Johnson said last week when the bill passed the committee by a 4-to-3 vote.

To Johnson’s credit, she described herself to the NYT as ‘right-wing wacko.’

Australians frequently ask me, ‘Why does America think its gun problems can be solved with more guns?’

I don’t know, but stories like this give me an itchy bridging-visa finger.

Arizona Weighs Bill to Allow Guns on Campuses [NYT]

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