Under current law, a person can drive onto school grounds in Arizona while in possession of a firearm only if the weapon is unloaded.

Republican House Majority Leader Rep. Warren Petersen and a host of his Republican brothers and sisters would like to change that.

Not in way would make us safer, as in saying a person cannot drive onto school grounds with a firearm, loaded or otherwise.

Just the opposite.

More guns on school grounds?

The gun lobby shills in the Legislature want to make if perfectly legal for mommy or daddy -- or anyone else -- to carry a fully-loaded weapon in the car with them when they pull onto school property.

Or, as it says in the summary of House Bill 2693, if this become law, “a person does not commit misconduct involving weapons for knowingly possessing a loaded or unloaded firearm on school grounds that is carried within a means of transportation and under the control of an adult.”

No laws to protect our children, or anyone else, were passed in Arizona after any of the mass killings that have occurred in America’s schools.

Yet our lawmakers want to do this?

No victim protection, but this?

Republicans in control of the Legislature have been unwilling to even consider Senate Bill 1219, which would take firearms away from domestic abusers, a law that already exists in more than half the states and has protected or saved the lives of who knows how many potential victims.

But they’re moving to pass this?

I live not too far from a school where, shortly before dismissal, parents in cars line up all along the street closest to the entrance and then slowly file along in a creeping caravan while hundreds of children make their way to family vehicles. There are playgrounds and playing fields separated by a fence from the driveway and parking lot of the school. The fields and playgrounds are always filled with kids. And there are cars pulling in and out all during the day.

Instead of keeping weapons away...

I’d guess a lot of the places in Arizona where we educate our children look like that.

And now – instead of doing more to keep weapons away from schools - there are lawmakers who want to make it legal for anyone packing a loaded weapon to drive right in.

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