Now open your hymnals to "Onward Christian Soldiers".........OR ELSE !!!!

[marmar]

from HuffPost:



If you're like most Americans, there's probably been a time in your life when you've been sitting in church, listening to a particularly ennui-inducing homily or enduring another warbly version of "Holy Holy Holy" and thought, "Man! I could really reach for some steel right now, squeeze off a few rounds, and let these fools know what the score is!" Well, in Louisiana, Governor Bobby Jindal has recently signed into law a measure that would allow you to at least feel comforted by the presence of your gun in the house of the Lord. From the New Orleans Times-Picayune:

Gov. Bobby Jindal has signed into law one of the more controversial bills from the recent legislative session, one allowing guns to be carried into houses of worship.

(...)

(State Representative Henry) Burns' (R-Haughton) bill would authorize persons who qualified to carry concealed weapons having passed the training and background checks to bring them to churches, mosques, synagogues or other houses of worship as part of a security force.

I am only too sure that a law allowing mosque-goers to carry guns to service will not rile up Louisiana's paranoiacs at all!

Some restrictions apply. The "head of the religious institution" would have to "announce verbally or in weekly newsletters or bulletins that there will be individuals armed on the property as members of the security force," and those lucky individuals would have to receive "eight hours of tactical training each year." ............(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/07/07/bobby-jindal-signs-guns-i_n_638047.html

[unhappycamper]

1. Recced back to zero. n/t

[marmar]

2. They've come with guns a'blazin.....

:P

[unhappycamper]

3. It's the Monday morning unrec crash.

It happens most mornings to 'controversial' OPs.

[zbdent]

4. I thought the guy who shot up the church was a "lone wolf" ...

and it was an "isolated incident" ...

(or wasn't he a regular at that church, that everybody knew and thought was an okay guy ...)

[TheCowsCameHome]

5. Oh noes! - now there's a uniformed militia.