Friday's bloodshed at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., "certainly complicates this governor’s life," veteran Lansing correspondent Tim Skubic says of Rick Snyder. "He is stuck in the midst of another defining moment."
A bill sits on his desk that passed the pro-gun legislature revamping the state’s concealed weapons dogma. Heretofore there were gun-free zones where the concealed weapon was verboten.
Now the good governor gets to decide if the original concept was wrong and indeed guns should be allowed in hospitals, day-care centers, churches, sports arenas and schools.
Schools?
As Skubic sees it, the issue refocuses attention on how the Republican governor balances personal beliefs and political calculations.
The governor . . . confesses the shootings in Connecticut give one "serious pause" and makes him wonder "is it appropriate?"
Perhaps some will say he should have thought about that before. . . . There had been other school shootings over the years and he could have factored that into his thinking, not knowing another one would tragically occur the day after the bill was passed.
If he did factor in the other school shootings, he obviously concluded he was still good with this bill. And if he didn’t factor it in, so much for him making decisions based on data.
