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As Charles has updated us and as a TSRA email alert has stated, the HB284/SB378 will be debated in the House on Monday. Joe Driver will move that the House accept SB378 in lieu of HB284 (they are identical) and also move that after debate the House vote to pass it, which will almost certainly happen. This is great!

The too close for comfort that I mentioned in my heading referrs to the fact that, while this might all have come to pass anyway, it could have been much slower, and less certain.

The House Jurisprudence Committee voted 5-3 on the floor to pas the SB378 out of committee to the floor, which is what sets up this process. This is the same vote margin with which HB284 was voted favorably out of committee.

Imagine the different scenario had this House committee been 4-4 rather than 5-3...only one vote difference. The committee substitute for bill HB284 might have looked much different, the speed of the process out of committee might have been much longer, and the substitution 'on the floor' at an impromptu committee meeting might never have happened if the Anti's had just ONE MORE VOTE on the committee.

I guess I have taken up way too much space and used way too many words suggesting that we cannot let our guard down on electing folks to the Legislature who recognize the Second Ammendment. Event though this measure probably would have passed eventually, with a modest change in the committee membership, it could have taken much longer and looked much different.

"Stepping down from soapbox now....sorry"