South Dakota News Update

Last November the citizens of South Dakota voted against a bill that would ban ALL abortions, this includes cases where the mother may be in fatal harm and cases of incest. I feel that if the bill was better written it would have passed, (S.D. being the conservative state it is) but it was so poorly written 80 year old men sitting on their front porch holding a gun voted against the bill extremely conservative bill (great step forward for pro-choicers everywhere!).

This January another piece of poorly written legislation was brought forward and passed by the South Dakota House of Representatives (Note: it was not passed by the S.D. Senate). The bill (S.D. HB) would allow for University Students to carry a weapon at all times, specifically while on campus and in the residence halls. Upon hearing this I was amazed at how asinine the legislators could be, their reason you ask for bring this bill forward?

For once in a great, long while the South Dakota Board of Regency (State Higher Education Governing Board, who hadn't had anything to do with education until they were appointed into the position) decided to try and make their campuses safer after the Virginia Tech incident by limiting fire arms on campus. GREAT IDEA, I would totally be in support of that (no, seriously, I would)!

When the South Dakota House heard this they were apparently up in arms, created and passed dear old HB 1261. (ASININE!) When asked about the bill House of Representatives elected officials said things like "well a South Dakotan wouldn't ever do something like that" or "having more guns would stop something like Virginia Tech happen because everyone would have guns to protect themselves." Obviously these people have never heard an irrational student in a conduct meeting, or actually been on campus to see how many people attending South Dakota schools aren't from South Dakota, not to mention that "South Dakotans not doing something like that" is a crock of SHIT! Especially combined with the fact that South Dakota has one of the highest percentages of drunk ass people runny around because they have nothing to do.

Okay, so my point, why are those who write South Dakota Legislation so freaking stupid!?!?!? If all of these bills were passed South Dakota would be a land of
unwanted, half-retarded, gun yielding, drunk people; and that, is just not safe for anyone.