Six-gun law in the Capitol?

Well, here's a new perspective. Let people carry guns everywhere, because you never know when you'll need one.

The Capital Times reports:

Don't limit concealed guns, Texas lawmaker says here
Wisconsin lawmakers should not declare most public places off-limits to individuals carrying concealed guns, a Texas lawmaker and gun advocate said today.

"When you carve places out, you're telling a gunman where they can go to kill people like fish in a barrel," Texas Rep. Suzanna Gratia Hupp told a joint legislative hearing this morning.

Hupp, who decided to run for office after her parents were killed in 1991 in Killeen, Texas, in the worst mass shooting in U.S. history, said it would be a mistake to ban the carrying of concealed weapons from government buildings, schools, hospitals and other publicly owned facilities.

"If it is a place where we as citizens have to enter, (carrying concealed weapons) should be allowed," she said.

Hupp noted that a principal was able to stop a school shooting outside Little Rock only after he retrieved a handgun from his car - which was technically illegal.

And she noted that concealed guns are allowed in the Texas Capitol "because we didn't want to be hypocrites about this."

Concealed guns in the State Capitol? On the floor of the Senate and Assembly? Could legislators keep them in their desks? (There are any number of leggies who shouldn't even be allowed to have anything sharp, let alone a loaded gun.)

This has some real possibilities. We've all seen or read about temper tantrums, screaming matches and rage during Capitol debates. The only thing that could liven things up would be if the participants were armed.

What are we waiting for? Six-gun law, here we come. Maybe it'll increase viewership on Wisconsin Eye, the state's version of C-Span, too.