Gun Rights Bills Move Forward in Va.

In December of 2005 in Richmond 24-year-old De'Nora Hill was shot to death by her bipolar boyfriend who went off his medication. She had been stalked for several months while her ex-boyfriend became more violent. The authorities offered her a cell phone, told her to move and her employer had her escorted to her car after work. It was while she was being escorted that she was shot. The escort was unarmed. The fear of guns seems to be unreasonable when compared to the inability of the authorities to stop a determined killer. In light of this two bills are moving through the legislature.

If Miss Hill had armed herself with her own weapon and the knowledge and skill to use it against her attacker, we would have one less dead person in Richmond.

The parking lot bill, part of a nationwide push by the National Rifle Association, would require businesses, including restaurants, to allow employees and customers to keep guns in their cars on company property. Many U.S. businesses have enacted rules banning guns in cars in response to workplace shootings.

Another bill would prohibit the governor from restricting gun rights during any kind of state emergency. Its sponsor said he was disturbed by reports from New Orleans that suggested that law enforcement officers were confiscating weapons from law-abiding citizens in response to violence following Hurricane Katrina

I found it to be unfathomable that the government would disarm people after a disaster such as Katrina. The reaction often seems to be to do something just to look like something is being done even if what is being done is counter to solving the problem. Disarming homeowners when the manpower to round up the real criminals is insuficiant falls under such a category.

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