Even after Emanuel, legislators’ love affair with guns knows no bounds (SC)

CINDI ROSS SCOPPE

NEXT TIME someone complains about the government trying to grab our guns, roll your eyes, and remind him that we live in South Carolina ...

Ask .. about H.4398. That’s the bill the House passed 98-5 to make sure that people who file for bankruptcy can’t have their guns taken by creditors. Perhaps so they can shoot anyone who calls them government-protected deadbeats.

Ask .. about H.4701. That bill, which passed the House by a much closer 69-27, makes it illegal for state agencies to “enforce any federal law, rule, or regulation that took effect after January 1, 2016, that limits the right of a person to own, possess, or use a firearm, ammunition, or firearm accessories” ...

Then ask .. about Dylann Roof and the Charleston Massacre and that background-check loophole ... The loophole that allowed our homegrown white supremacist to buy the gun he used to slaughter the nine innocents at Emanuel A.M.E. Church, even though he had an arrest that made it a crime to buy a gun. Since the FBI didn’t spot the arrest within 72 hours, he got to buy the gun. And we all know what happened next ...

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