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LB430 UPDATE 5/13/09: LB430 Passes 45-3; thank the Senators

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Aldo:

--- Quote from: 475okh on March 13, 2009, 06:39:02 AM ---Can't believe Omaha did not have some type of representation there.

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Well, Sen Brenda Council, who is on the committee, is from Omaha.  But, it sounds from what those who attended are saying is that she may have been there in nameplate only during the testifying.  Was she really gone from the room for that long?  If so, you would think that the committee chair would have a word with her about her duty to sit through the meeting respectfully.  Ok, I can understand that irritable bowel syndrome can have a priority, but it sounded from an earlier post that she left the room for an extended period of time.

Jesse T:
Senators come and go from the hearings all the time.  Some have meetings or other sessions to attend... its just the way the thing is run. 

Aldo:
This morning while driving to work, the local Lincoln radio station (KLIN 1400AM) talk show dude was ranting about how he just couldn't understand how this bill could allow churches to have armed guards with guns strapped to their sides since it would just seem odd to be in church and look around and see an armed guard standing there.

I was trying to call in to the station while driving, but fortunately (before I could get into an accident dialing and driving at the same time) another listener called in and said that the idea is NOT to have someone standing there with a gun strapped to their side, but that the gun would be CONCEALED!!!  The radio dude goes: "Oh, okay, good point.  Thanks for the call."  Uneducated dude, and, unfortunately, there are many folks like that out there in our community who just don't understand....and it sounds from those who attended the committee meeting that there are even committee members who are uneducated about the ccw deal...and they are on this important committee!!

I pray that it doesn't happen, but church shootings, and probably even school shootings, are gonna happen, and probably here in Lincoln.  Why wait until something happens, and then have to wait until the next legislative session to change the law?  This is an opportunity for the churches to OPT to have their internal ccw security in place....it doesn't mandate them, but at least it allows for the option to do so.

Aldo:

--- Quote from: Jesse T on March 13, 2009, 08:28:13 AM ---Senators come and go from the hearings all the time.  Some have meetings or other sessions to attend... its just the way the thing is run. 

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Ah, thanks for the clarification.  I was making the assumption that she was gone for that long because of her publicly known strong stance against this bill, against ccw, and against citizens even having guns!  Good to give the benefit of the doubt.  But, JesseT, in this case??? Hhhhmmm.

But, I wasn't there, so my bad on being judgmental based only on what I was reading from y'all who were there relative to folks' interpretations of the committee members.

Jesse T:
I am not trying to defend her.  She was not the only senator to come and go throughout the different hearings in the afternoon.  It just seems wierd to me that she would be there the entire afternoon through everything but then as proponents for 430 start she leaves... and as opponents to 430 start, she is suddenly back.  Coincidence or not... you decide.

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