Williamson County school officials cancelled field trips and rescheduled sporting events because of the law. One of the sporting event canceled includes a large county-wide cross-country meet at Bowie Nature Park in Fairview.
Williamson County is one of few local governments that decided to uphold the new state law allowing guns in parks.
Franklin's is an excellent school system. But this decision makes no sense at all. I wonder what the school officials' reasoning is. Do they think that the previous legal ban on guns kept murderous psychos out of the parks, but now those psychos will feel free to shoot up the place?
More here, with comments:
James King's son is a Fairview Middle School student who runs cross-country and who had planned to volunteer at the park's upcoming Nature Fest on Sept. 12. Now, King said, not only will his son not be going to the park for school activities, the whole family will be steering clear of the park. "I just don't feel comfortable going over there now," he said. "Anybody's that's that paranoid, that they think they have to be protected to go to the park, I feel sorry for them."
Suppose guns are allowed in 98% of a state. Then a new law expands that to 99%. I suppose a guy could then decide to avoid that new 1%. But why isn't he bothered when his family is somewhere in the original 98%?
Conclusion from reading the comments... we're not in Massachusetts any more.
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