MaddowBlog: Only a good guy with a tampon can stop a bad guy with a tampon

[Scuba]

http://maddowblog.msnbc.com/_news/2013/07/12/19441556-only-a-good-guy-with-a-tampon-can-stop-a-bad-guy-with-a-tampon?lite

Inside Texas' state legislature, loaded guns are fairly common. As the New York Times reported in March, "Just as Texas has long embraced its guns, so has the Capitol. Legislators have walked the terrazzo hallways, attended committee hearings, met with constituents in their offices and voted on the floors of their respective chambers while armed with licensed high-powered pistols tucked beneath their suits or slipped into their boots or purses."

But as debate begins in the state Senate on sweeping restrictions to reproductive rights, tampons are being confiscated. No, seriously.

Women are being forced to throw out tampons and maxi pads to enter the Senate gallery, which has been confirmed by DPS. [...]

However, people with concealed handgun licenses are allowed to bypass long lines to enter the Gallery through the expedited CHL entrance, and per DPS, if a person has a CHL, they can take their gun into the gallery.

[Aerows]

1. This has to be the

silliest shit I've ever heard. Tampons and Maxi-pads - Dangerous. Guns - just fine. Have these people lost their fucking minds?

[boston bean]

2. These fuckers hate women, that's it.

They see horror in tampons an maxi pads.

Were they afraid women were going to tie the tampon strings together to form a rope, which could be used for any imaginary violence, that the fuckers could dream up in their twisted noggins.