Kansas Republican asserts 'God-given' gun rights during debate on concealed carry fees

[RandySF]

TOPEKA — Paying for a license to carry a concealed firearm violates “God-given rights,” a House Republican argued during a tense discussion on gun law ethics this week.

A day after a deadly mass shooting in Nashville, Tennessee, Rep. Rebecca Schmoe, an Ottawa Republican, advocated for a bill reducing concealed carry licensing fees out of concern that lower-income Kansans cannot afford to pay them. Schmoe said it was wrong to have to pay to “exercise a right” and that people who opposed the bill were discriminating based on finances.

“It means that you do believe in separate access to rights based upon income, and that low-income need not apply.” Schmoe said. “I urge you to stand for the rights that we are granted — our natural, God-given rights.”

Kansas legalized the concealed carry of firearms in 2015. Under state law, anyone 21 or older can carry concealed weapons in the state without a license or permit, but getting a license allows Kansans to concealed carry a gun in other states.

A concealed carry permit costs $132.50, with $100 going to the Attorney General’s Office and $32.50 paid to the applicant’s county sheriff. To get the license, applicants have to undergo an eight-hour weapons safety and training course and obtain a certificate of completion from a certified trainer.



https://www.newsfromthestates.com/article/kansas-republican-asserts-god-given-gun-rights-during-debate-concealed-carry-fees

[patphil]

1. God given right?

Just who is his "god", and when did this god give him this right?

Not that I'm in favor of people legally walking around with concealed weapons, but if they can afford the gun, they can afford the permit and the training course.

[rurallib]

4. you would think if there was a gawd one of its first orders of business

would be to stop killing children whether it be by firearms or starvation or war.

[yellowcanine]

9. Yes, says right there on Two Corinthians......

"Thou shalt allow open carry of any and all weapons."

[patphil]

15. Is that the same book that starts with, "two Corinthians walked into a bar..."?

[Conjuay]

11. I thought the tunderbolt was god's weapon of choice.

just shows to go ya…

[A HERETIC I AM]

12. I'ts interesting that all the countries that have official state religions do not recognize....

Such rights.

Why is that, I wonder?

[MagickMuffin]

2. GOP GUNS OVER PEOPLE

Where is this god given rights come from Rebecca Schmoe?


Your whole party love guns and control over people.

[sanatanadharma]

3. The God of Christianity does not approve her message

It is blasphemy for a Christian to put faith in gun before faith in God's promised protection
(prologue: These are her, not my scriptures.)

“For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.”
“Fear of man will prove to be a snare, but whoever trusts in the Lord is kept safe.”

“Do not worry about your life, ... Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life? Since you cannot do this very little thing, why do you worry about the rest?”

[LonePirate]

5. I would love to hear why she thinks owning guns is a god given right but bodily autonomy is not.

The former implies the latter if you think about it given that Repubs claim that guns are for self-defense.

[Marius25]

6. Not only are guns not a God-given right...

The Bible flat out condemns the use of weapons.

[gratuitous]

7. What a Schmoe

An insult to her family name if such a thing is possible.

[Solly Mack]

8. For God so loved the world that He gave His only gun, that whosoever believes in it, will have

reduced rates to carry?

Who knew?

[DoBW]

13. Priorities ass-backwards

[Mysterian]

14. Twisted fundie psycho summons his imaginary god to further evil

Religion is a bane upon mankind.

[Aussie105]

16. God given right is correct!

I well remember the passage in the Bible where Jesus talks about smiting one's enemies, preferably before they can get you first, and sits down with the little children and shows them how to clean their AR15 'self defense' weapons, load it and fire it at their enemies.

Give me some time to look that passage up . . .

Yeah, but 'God given right' is something you are not allowed to argue with! (That is why it is trotted out.)

Rebecca Schmoe needs a psych evaluation, quick!

/massive in this post, in case you are wondering.