Brownback wants $24 million to keep guns out of psychiatric hospitals
Source: The Wichita Eagle
BY JONATHAN SHORMAN
jshorman@wichitaeagle.com
Gov. Sam Brownback wants more than $24 million over the next two years to keep guns out of state hospitals, frustrating lawmakers who question how such security measures can be put into place by a July 1 deadline.
Lawmakers and Brownback have the power to change the law and avoid spending millions but attempts to amend it have faltered.
A 2013 state law allows concealed weapons at public hospitals and college campuses beginning July 1. That includes the states psychiatric hospitals in Larned and Osawatomie. Guns may be kept out if buildings provide security measures such as metal detectors and armed guards. Storage for weapons may also be provided.
In a budget request released Thursday, Brownback asks for $12.5 million in the fiscal year that begins July 1, and $11.7 million in the year after, to meet the security requirements.
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Scalded Nun
(1,245 posts)While their people starve.
MFM008
(19,834 posts)and send Brownbutt to a psychiatric institution.
asiliveandbreathe
(8,203 posts)mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)1) Make metal detectors, and/or
2) Provide security guards, and/or
3) Make firearm storage containers
... for public facilities ...
Docreed2003
(16,900 posts)From the psych hospitals? Wouldn't they need LESS security? Wtf? Who's getting a pay day from this one?
hack89
(39,171 posts)the way the law is written, guns can only be banned if security measures like metal detectors are in place.
Docreed2003
(16,900 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(49,069 posts)wcmagumba
(2,893 posts)are having to come up with several million dollars to buy metal detectors and staff them with security for
football games, basketball games and other large events due to the law allowing guns on campus...so we
have to have guns to be more secure yet common sense dictates that you are not really more secure when
everyone carries, so millions must be spent to keep people secure because of the law that is supposed
to keep you more secure....wtf? RW logic really confuses me...
randome
(34,845 posts)[hr][font color="blue"][center]A ton of bricks, a ton of feathers, it's still gonna hurt.[/center][/font][hr]
Grins
(7,258 posts)In April of 2013 the NRA helped kill a bill that would have closed loopholes through which criminals and mentally ill people can currently buy guns without a background check. The GOP filibustered it to its death.
The NRA's substitute legislation would have let people who have been involuntarily committed to psychiatric hospitals buy guns immediately after their commitment order expired, and restored gun rights for people who have been adjudicated mentally incompetent, i.e. too impaired to deposit their disability checks.