Michigan: Gov. Snyder Pledges To Reconsider Gun Legislation, Recalls U-M Shooting

[Purveyor]

LANSING - Gov. Rick Snyder pledged Monday to take a close look at legislation that could allow concealed weapons in schools and churches following the Connecticut school shooting that evoked painful memories of a fatal shooting at his college dormitory more than three decades ago.

Snyder told The Associated Press during an interview that his public safety concerns have been heightened and "deserve extra consideration" following a mass shooting that left 26 people — including 20 children — dead at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn.

"We're looking at the whole situation due to Connecticut, not just the fact that there's a bill out there," the Republican governor said. "One of the things I've asked our team to look at is what's going with school policies, with mental-health-related issues, because in many respects it appears this was a mentally ill person. ... What that legislation says will be looked at through the lens of all that's happened."

Snyder said the Good Friday 1981 shooting at the University of Michigan also plays into his decision-making regarding the legislation. He was a law school student and resident adviser when a student set fires by throwing Molotov cocktails onto the floor and fired a shotgun, killing another resident adviser and a student who was trying to help get people off the floor.

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[Union Scribe]

1. Yeah, he pledged right to work wasn't on his agenda, too.

He's a snake and he'll do what his bosses tell him to.

[IllinoisBirdWatcher]

2. Wingnuts caught with their pants down...

Funny that this was such a GOOD law to ram through a lame duck legislature when that was done hours before the Newtown carnage.

Suddenly the wingnut governor wants to "reconsider" the brilliance of his rubber-stamp legislature.

But only after ramming through another bill to strip local citizens (predominantly African-American) of their voting rights.

State government in Michigan is clearly part of the problem and not part of the solution.

[catbyte]

3. Bullshit. The NRA will write him a fat check & he'll realize that "guns don't kill,

people do."

He is the worst sort of whore.