Are you an MD or an RN or any other member of hospital staff? Are you pissed that you can’t have your gun on you at work? Well, good news! You may soon be able to protect yourself at work!
It’s my prerogative as an American, and as a believer in the First Amendment, to proudly say that the Second Amendment sucks worse than the suckiest suck to ever suck. The First Amendment also means that I can criticize the government of the state in which I reside, specifically when it involves their tireless efforts to give Texans every ample opportunity to kill each other.
State Rep. Drew Springer (R-Muenster) took a trip to Harris Methodist Hospital in Fort Worth and was forced to leave his beloved gun in his car. After what he claimed was a harrowing trip to and from his vehicle, he presumably began to think:
Why doesn’t the MD have a gun??Why doesn’t the RN have a gun??Why didn’t the janitor or the administrator or the lunch lady have a gun? Hell, why didn’t the visitors have guns?
In response to this presumptuous?train of thought, Rep. Springer did what any tried-and-true patriot would do in this situation. He drafted and proposed legislation that would allow every MD, RN, candy-striper, photographer, and guest — anyone who would have any sort of business in a hospital — to walk in ready to bust a cap if they deem it necessary.
This is incredibly frustrating for people like myself — people who think guns are silly. I can’t get a burrito without some dude walking into Chipotle like it were Fallujah. Starting in January, I couldn’t go to the bank without some jackoff juggling his wallet, deposit, and handgun behind me. In a year, I’m going to have to cram for stressful exams in a library where some frustrated student could open fire on his textbook.
Now, I’m looking at the possibility that an MD or an RN racing through the ER may have their gun discharge.?I suppose I could make a bad joke here and say something to the effect of “hey, at least they’re already in a hospital!”
I hate to make this all about me, but shit, this god-forsaken gun culture is getting out of hand. I’m not all that comfortable with the idea that there may not be any place I can go in this state where I don’t have to worry about some idiot’s gun going off.
I can understand Texas’ “every gun everywhere” policy if, say, the 21st Century looked more like the 19th Century — back when the denizens of North Texas had to round up them cattle, or fight off them Injuns, or if Cole Younger and his gang were on the loose. But, we don’t live in the wild west anymore, despite some Texans apparently still thinking we do (or thinking we should).
The last thing we need is an RN sticking us with a needle while the gun they’ve tucked in their loose-fitting scrubs discharges.
