The governor has taken action on two bills that show where his priorities really lie: He vetoed a bill reigning in
predatory payday lending, and signed a bill allowing
loaded guns on school grounds.The gun law Sanford signed allows anyone with a concealed weapons permit to leave a gun in their car while parked at a school so that, according to the bill’s sponsor,
teachers can more fully exercise their rights:
“I’m not trying to bring firearms inside the school,” said
Martin, R-Spartanburg. “You don’t need to carry it inside the school. But I’ve had teachers tell me they can’t exercise their (Second Amendment) rights traveling to and from school. They ought to be able to travel to school without having to leave their weapon.”
So while Sanford refuses to fix crumbling schools or prevent thousands of teacher layoffs or crack down on some of the most predatory lending practices around, he was willing to join a freshman senator’s “grand gesture” to the NRA. It must be more of that “reform” Sanford has trumpeted
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