Does gun ownership increase intelligence?
     The Wisconsin State Legislature is considering a weird gun rights bill to be voted on in the next two months.  Governor Scott Walker's Wisconsin became a concealed carry state in 2011, but guns are not permitted on school grounds.  Anyone baffled as to why it seems to some that guns and schools don't mix, in this age when classrooms have been spattered with blood numerous times, should be able to relate to this new law proposed by State Senators Mary Lazich and Robert Brooks, both Republicans.
     According to the Milwaukee Wisconsin Journal Sentinel, Lazich "said the measure is intended to make sure weapons permit holders aren't inadvertently committing crimes when they drop their kids off at school.  I don't want to see that happen to well-intentioned law-abiding people."
     Her colleague Brooks chimed in: "When they drop off their kids, pick up their kids, I don't think they realize they're breaking the law."
     Do any of the state's children ask their parents, "Dad, when you drop me off at school, why are you carrying a gun?"
     Phil Ertl, Superintendent of the Wauwatosa School District, made a cogent comment: "I struggle with the fact we need a law to protect someone that forgets they had their gun with them while taking their children to school."
     The proposed bill lets individual schools decide whether or not teachers and other official on-campus personnel should be carrying inside the building(s).  State Representative Jesse Kremer, a Republican (do you see a trend?) claims that "if some teachers were allowed to carry guns, they could fight back if their classrooms were attacked."  He's referring to Bruce Willis action film-type scenarios.  We're supposed to accept the reality of teachers armed with handguns "fight[ing] back" against twisted and determined end game killers armed, as in the usual real scenarios, with automatic weapons and shitloads of ammunition.  Are teachers trained in dealing with being on the receiving end of bloody chaos erupting into an arithmetic lesson?
     Representative Kremer formerly "promoted a 'campus carry' bill...that would have allowed students and faculty to carry guns in university and college buildings.  Leaders said they would not advance that measure, but Kremer said he hoped the one for K-12 schools would get traction."
     K as in kindergarten.
     The problem isn't what State Senator Lazich claims it is.  Any civilian who thinks it's fine to bring a gun onto school property has already crossed a line, reflected in our modern American society by the fact, encouraged in its growth over the past few decades by NRA lobbying, that this nation's citizens, who used to be sensible about such things, no longer think and believe its crazy and immoral to bring guns onto school property.
     When I was a grade schooler in the 1970s a fellow student brought his bow and arrows to school for a bow hunting demonstration.  He was responsible; he didn't draw the bow with an arrow nocked.  He brought the arrows to show the various points for various types of game.  The teacher was very impressed, because his presentation was so well done and informative, not because she was into hunting and killing animals.  Now, a student couldn't bring such a lethal weapon to school, but it was fine in that case because of the context.  A man or woman in those days appearing on my school's grounds or in the building carrying a gun would've seemed very weird and unsettling, but no one would've done it, much less enter school property unaware of the disturbing vibe radiating from people who walk about in society carrying guns.  In the 1970s, America was less crazy.  Now, lawmakers in Wisconsin propose a law to protect morons from an already existing law they should know about and obey.

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