Gov. Abigail Spanberger (D) signed laws Thursday that prohibits law-abiding Virginians from being armed for self-defense in an array of hospitals.
WTKR reported that the weapons ban “applies to hospitals that present psychological well being, developmental and emergency medical companies.”
The language of the ban classifies “a weapon as firearms, knives longer than 3.5 inches, explosives, tasers, pepper spray, brass knuckles, and field cutters,” WAVY famous.
Dr. Jessica Burgess testified in favor of the ban, citing occasions she has been attacked in a hospital with chairs and with folks punching partitions. She didn’t say whether or not a ban on firearms and knives will stop folks from throwing chairs or punching partitions.
State Sen. Angelia Williams Graves (D), the co-sponsor of the ban, stated, “It’s sending a message that you just assist well being care staff, but in addition sending a message to these would-be offenders to take that someplace else. Really, don’t take it anyplace. Simply go residence, you understand? However positively not in a hospital.”
Graves didn’t reference the Gun-Free College Zones Act (1990), which turned faculties into gun-free zones in a lot the identical means her ban will do to hospitals. The Columbine Excessive College assault occurred 9 years after the Gun Free College Zones Act was adopted, and Columbine was adopted by a long time of faculty assault after college assault.
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