The Wyoming legislature took a big step toward respecting the Second Amendment with House Bill 72. It is,
AN ACT relating to concealed weapons; repealing gun free zones; providing for the carrying of concealed weapons as specified; creating a criminal offense for prohibiting entry to a person carrying a concealed weapon as specified; clarifying that only the state legislature may regulate firearms, weapons and ammunition; providing for exceptions; requiring rulemaking; and providing for an effective date.
This is the Cowboy State’s second bite at this apple. Last year’s bill was vetoed, and the usual public school suspects are unhappy about the governor allowing it to become law this time around.
“We feel like our educators have the right to know if, for example, we’re having parent-teacher conferences and somebody is carrying a weapon,” she said.
Most Wyoming schools don’t have metal detectors, she said. And under the new law, school staff won’t be allowed to ask visitors if they’re carrying concealed firearms.
Emotions can run high in schools, so there’s concern over firearms being in the mix, Amen said.
“We’re also concerned about school board meetings,” she said. “School board meetings have become quite contentious in recent years.”
No effort is made to explain the source of the contention, so how about parents not having the right to know what is being taught to their kids? Are students given psychological testing or subjected to pornographic gender bending literature without parental knowledge or consent? Are schools transitioning kids on campus and keeping it secret? Do they require students to use preferred pronouns (compelled speech), boys on girls teams and in their bathrooms, all while denying free speech rights?
Are these your typical Obama/Biden-era American public schools? The ones that call the cops if you speak out or censor you for daring to read from books on school library shelves?
Is student data being shared or medical decisions (masks, vaccines) being made without proper informed consent or the consent of parents or guardians?
Any or all of these and a long list of issues from poor output at excessive cost could make parent-taxpayer interaction contentious—quite contentious. But there is a solution to every one of these supposed problems.
First, listen to the parents.
Then, because you brought it up, can we please have a list of incidents involving armed engagement in Wyoming at a teachers’ conference or school board meeting? I’m guessing the number is zero, and trust me, people have been carrying concealed, you never knew, and lived to tell the tale.
Finally, if you are that concerned, get some training and carry concealed. It’s legal, and this is Wyoming, not Whineoming. Jeesh. Just follow the law including that,
Firearms will still be prohibited in certain publicly funded spaces such as prisons, jails, mental health treatment facilities and laboratories containing explosive materials on the University of Wyoming campus.
Private property won’t be affected, Jones said.
For example, because Cheyenne Frontier Days is a private venture, its organizers can still choose to prohibit civilians from carrying firearms there, he said.
And there’s your answer. Schools are already in a mad rush to identify as mental institutions – which isn’t a stretch given how little anyone learned and who pretends to be in charge.
Parents, you’ll want them not to make that leap, and if you’re unsure why, the same people who want to manage your child’s mental health can’t teach half of them to read or add, nor can they define what a woman is.
You are getting more of your gun rights back; now take your schools back, but not with guns – that’d play into the proglodytes’ hoplophobia. School board elections, better superintendents, control spending, fewer administrators, and an eagle eye on curriculum. You might even end up with young adults who understand the natural right to self-defense and that the US Constitution doesn’t grant it, it protects it from whiney school district employees.
