I see Senate won’t vote until next week on the bill to allow guns in church. It’s going to zoom through this legislature like corn through a goose with about the same resulting work product.

Again: If churches are in need of guns, why not nursery schools, department stores, the Arkansas Capitol, convenience stores, maternity wards and liquor stores? Everywhere, in short. Because if we are anticipating our worst threats in church, we’re in a heap of trouble. Or organized religion is.

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