An amazing thing will happen: nothing
Ann Althouse on carry at the WI capitol:
Having seen the effect of the rotunda on the human mind, I worry about ordinary citizens in the Capitol with guns.
Just like all the other times guns went from being restricted to allowed in things like bars, restaurants, capitols, parks etc., nothing happens.
Via Breda.
October 10th, 2011 at 9:31 am
“I worry about those Colored Boys sitting at the Lunch Counter along with Ordinary People.” Same stupid attitude, just 50 years later.
October 10th, 2011 at 10:07 am
I really wish that people would stop telling me that Ann Althouse is on my side.
October 10th, 2011 at 10:33 am
There, fixed it for her. It looks much better, and much more applicable now.
October 10th, 2011 at 11:42 am
The comments to that article ran overwhelmingly in favor of carry in the Capitol, and Ann’s responses to several of the comments indicate she might have had her eyes opened regarding her knee-jerk anti-rights position.
She is not a firearms enthusiast, and she lives in effing Madison, WI, surrounded by leftist moonbats of the first order, but I believe she has the honesty and intelligence to learn enough about the subject of self defense rights, firearm law and anti-rights history to become a strong supporter of the pro-rights side.
She is no Joan Peterson. Read the comments at the link and decide for yourself, as I have, that Ann Althouse is a blogger and law prof we should be courting to the gun-rights side.
October 10th, 2011 at 11:57 am
Meanwhile, here in Texas: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/jul/19/gun-permit-allows-quick-access-texas-capitol/
October 10th, 2011 at 12:22 pm
Breda,
Althouse may not be on your side, but she isn’t against you either.
I’ve been reading and commenting on her blog for years, and I took her statement to mean that certain things cause leftist minds to melt; among them the Capitol rotunda and handguns in D.C.
October 10th, 2011 at 1:16 pm
Oh, please. If Ann Althouse believes that, then she is more of an idiot than I thought.
October 10th, 2011 at 1:26 pm
And I believe she used the term “ordinary citizens” not leftists, not union members, etc.
So I’m curious who she thinks qualifies as “ordinary” – am I ordinary? Are you? Does this imply she is somehow extraordinary?
October 10th, 2011 at 2:03 pm
Yeah, I said the same thing over here, about guns on campus: http://newtrajectory.blogspot.com/2011/10/oregon-should-ban-guns-on-public.html
October 10th, 2011 at 2:50 pm
Ah, well a Joyce-funded anti-gun blogger agrees with Althouse. If that doesn’t solidify Breda’s point I don’t know what does.
The “ordinary citizens” thing really irked me. We either have rights or we don’t. Rights aren’t only for those who Althouse might consider “extraordinary.”
October 10th, 2011 at 11:33 pm
I used to follow Prof. Althouse regularly before I started blogging myself, then I just didn’t have time to follow a blog that didn’t have the potential to feed me material.
But she’s not someone I’d qualify as with us or against us. She’s not a gun person, but nor is she anti-gun. She’s about 75% of America. The 75% of America we need to continue having victories. If you turn the Ann Althouse’s of the world against you, gun rights are finished… and it won’t matter what the Constitution says.
I’d say Ann Althose is more on our side than, say, Professor Adam Winkler, who is a gun control advocate, just one that’s more honest and willing to take our arguments seriously.
October 11th, 2011 at 7:58 am
So are you saying Ann Althouse is an “ordinary citizen”? 😉