Kansas City Star Editorial: Why do Kansas lawmakers think guns in hospitals are a good idea?
The state’s senators and representatives have failed to exempt the University of Kansas Health System from a law that will allow concealed weapons to be carried in the state’s public buildings starting in July.
Already, executives are hearing from medical students who say they are hesitant to complete their residency in a place where guns are allowed. Patients say they will go elsewhere for care. Other hospitals, once eager to transfer their charges to the many highly specialized programs in the KU Health System, are warning that such arrangements are likely to slow when guns are permitted.
The perception of an unsafe environment is their reality.
Patients can and will choose to go elsewhere. Come July, the KU Health System will be the only such health care center in the area that will allow guns to be carried on the premises. Hospitals in Missouri are exempt from laws that allow people to carry guns more freely.
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The NRA wants people to be able to take guns anywhere and everywhere regardless of whether a person is more or less likely to be at risk of some random whacko/terrorist shooter because freedom, something, something.
either is seriously deluded about how dangerous the world is or they're purposely manipulating the public with fear about an armed murderer or terrorist around every corner so as to sell more guns and ammo, which is now seriously more difficult now that they can't accuse Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton of thinking about taking everybody's gunz away!
The ultimate goal in some states seems to be turning them into "Wild West" arenas where just about everybody is packing heat and deputized to respond with lethal force to any potentially threatening individuals. They also seem to want the rest of the public whom are maybe not quite so crazy about guns to feel more "comfortable" with other people walking around openly carrying their rifles.