Packing Heat

Bob Damron is trying to micromanage the Universities with a bill to allow the paranoid the right to pack heat on campus.

As the rhetoric in Frankfort rolled to a boil, Kentucky's public universities expressed solid opposition Wednesday to a bill that would allow people to bring firearms onto campuses as long as the weapons remained in vehicles.

Bullitt Bob Damron strikes again with another gun bill. The question that occurs to me why is he doing this?

Here’s one possible answer.

Bob Damron’s district includes some precincts on the south side of Fayette County. Stan Lee, the House Republican Whip, lives a few precincts away on the Fayette – Jessamine County borders. The Democratic Party has written off running anyone against Lee because of the demographics of the District.

So if you are the Democrats how do you get rid of Stan Lee? In a word gerrymandering, or in politically correct speak redistricting. So if Lee’s District gets sliced and diced where does he end up? Bob and Stan end up running in the same district.

House Democratic Leadership will probably not help Bob. Remember Damron used to be part of leadership and isn’t anymore. When your own party votes you out of leadership, you’re not feeling the love.

So even if this bill goes nowhere, Bob Damron once again establishes his right wing gun nut credentials with the sizeable voting block of gun toting right wingers that inhabit his district.