This was in the News Paper I Love it. You go Girl.
PHOENIX — A new state lawmaker is bringing her concealed gun into the Senate despite signs on the doors making the building a weapons-free zone.
And the president of the Senate doesn't intend to do anything about that.
Sen. Lori Klein, R-Anthem, said she has had a gun for years. When a new law kicked in last year allowing anyone to have a concealed weapon, she began carrying a 380 Ruger in her purse.
“I believe that my responsibility is to protect myself,” she said. “I'm comfortable carrying. And I had no intention of creating any concern.”
The official policy at the Arizona Senate is that weapons must be surrendered. The Senate provides lockers where they can be secured while people are in the building.
Klein noted, however, there are no metal detectors and no spot checks of visitors.
“Anyone can come into the Senate office building. And frankly if you're somebody that has an intent to harm someone, you're not going to stop by the guard and say, ‘Here's my weapon.'”
Senate President Russell Pearce, R-Mesa, who crafted last year's law allowing any adult to carry a concealed weapon, said he is not troubled by Klein's actions.
“The best thing you could do to protect freedom for yourself and others is to have good citizens that are capable of protecting themselves and others,” he said. “I would never have a policy that restricts members.”
State law prohibits weapons from being carried into public buildings. But the House and Senate are permitted to have their own regulations.
Officially, the Senate is a gun-free zone. But Pearce conceded that its enforcement is pretty much nonexistent — for everyone.
“It's kind of a ‘don't ask, don't tell' policy right now,” he said, with no one challenging visitors to surrender their weapons.
In fact, Pearce said he believes some of the people who are coming into the Senate now probably are carrying guns despite the signs on the doors. And he said he doesn't intend to change that.
“There'll be no metal detectors out front while I'm president of the Senate.”
Pearce said, though, he is not armed while in the Senate.
Klein said the events of the past weekend back her belief that people being armed is the best protection for the public, saying that someone with a gun could have taken out Jared Loughner before he killed six and wounded 13 others.
Daniel Scarpinato, spokesman for House Speaker Kirk Adams, R-Mesa, said the policy in that chamber remains that visitors are supposed to surrender their weapons. Like the Senate, however, compliance at most times is more or less voluntary, with no metal detectors at the doors.
The only exception to that in recent memory was during Monday's State of the State address by the governor when Capitol police officers had hand-held wands and checked the purses and backpacks of those entering the building.
Scarpinato said there is “no policy” regarding lawmakers having weapons. He said, though, that Adams does not carry a gun.
I am glad to see this.
And especially glad, that it is a LADY doing this!
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A Man WITH a gun is a CITIZEN, a Man WITHOUT a gun is a SUBJECT
Awesome to see that our law makers in this state actualy use the laws they make. good to see its a lady at the fore front aswell, makes it more credible that there is a proplem out there and the guys arent crazy.
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about time lawmakers grew a pair! now if the rest would get their heads out of their politically correct arses, America will once again be the great no nonsense nation she was!
When Admiral Yamamoto was ask why he did not invade the United States? His answer was
THERE IS A GUN BEHIND EVERY BLADE OF GRASS.
You cannot invade the mainland United States. There would be a rifle behind every blade of grass.
It has been declared this attribution is "unsubstantiated and almost certainly bogus, even though it has been repeated thousands of times in various Internet postings. There is no record of the commander in chief of Japan’s wartime fleet ever saying it.", according to Brooks Jackson in "Misquoting Yamamoto" at Factcheck.org (11 May 2009)
It does sound good, and all the armed citizens in this country are definitely a deterrent.
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