No Firearms Allowed

A Facebook friend asked if I saw any "open carry" folks at the Madison rally when I attended on Friday.

Here's my answer:

"No, but interestingly, I saw a photo of a sign yesterday (Saturday) -- when tp demonstrators were expected to show up -- taped to capitol doors saying no firearms allowed inside and citing the state law making it illegal to take firearms into government buildings. (Link to the photo at the bottom of this post.) I went through those doors several times on Friday  -- when no tpers were there or expected in any large numbers or organized fashion -- and saw no such signs. So, interesting, because apparently state officials didn't seem to think there was any need for such a notice until faced with the prospect of tpers showing up. Also, isn't it ironic that the very bodies/officials that enact and uphold laws allowing people to carry guns in public make and uphold laws that don't allow guns around themselves."

If it's OK to carry guns around the rest of us, why isn't it OK to carry guns around those who say it's OK to carry guns around the rest of us? Or are those who say it's OK afraid that The People bearing arms might form a militia against them? If so, aren't government buildings the very places such a militia should be allowed to bear arms? And isn't barring firearms from government buildings, in the view of those who cite the Second Amendment as giving Americans the right to keep and bear arms in public, unconstitutional, in that the Second Amendments says this right "shall not be infringed"?

"Amendment II
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."

Isn't not letting people bear their Arms in government buildings infringing on their Second Amendment rights?

But then, I'm way too truly conservative to think that it's OK for anyone to willynilly be allowed to carry guns around -- concealed or not -- in public place and around kids, old folks or anyone just going about their daily business.

Something else I find not only ironic, but hypocritical or at best inconsistent, is that former vice presidential candidate and half-term Alaska governor who hailed working-class people as "real Americans" and who ran on a platform of keeping government out of people's business is now denouncing those very people, her version of "real Americans" -- teachers, nurses, tradesmen -- you know, the Joe the plumbers of the Midwest -- and saluting a government that's sticking its nose in their business and infringing on their rights. Go figure.

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