Posted on 03/04/2015 1:16:38 PM PST by redreno
CARSON CITY — Brian and Valerie Wilson asked the Assembly Judiciary Committee on Wednesday to approve a bill that would allow them to carry their loaded weapons and still serve as foster parents.
In testimony to the committee in support of Assembly Bill 167, Wilson said the couple’s attempts to get a variance from a state regulation prohibiting the carrying of loaded weapons with foster children was denied.
“I am really heartbroken that the Department of Child and Family Services gave us this denial letter,” Valerie Wilson said. “I really want a family.”
Wilson said the Las Vegas couple always planned to become foster parents and adopt but have been denied permission to do so because of the regulation, which he wants to change with the bill. Current rules require guns and ammunition to be stored separately in secure containers in homes with foster children.
The bill would allow Nevadans with concealed weapons permits, and law enforcement officers, to carry loaded weapons on their person in a home or car and still be eligible to be foster parents. If not carried on their person, the weapons would be required to be kept in a secure safe but they could remain loaded.
Assemblywoman Michele Fiore, R-Las Vegas, who sponsored the bill, said the bill has bipartisan support. Sen. Kelvin Atkinson, D-Las Vegas, who has a concealed carry permit, is looking at becoming a foster parent, she said.
“I don’t know if some of my peers have toured Child Haven or have been in Child Haven, but we have children in need of great foster care, and we have had people that are law-abiding citizens that have gotten their background checks, that have their CCWs, literally denied to foster a child because they have a concealed weapons permit.”
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The Constitution says you can.............................
Free men (and women) don’t ask permission - if you are asking permission to do what the Constitution already says you can, you are consenting to the destruction of the 2nd Amendment. When are we actually going to start acting like Americans?
So wait - a child’s natural parent(s) can carry to protect their child, but foster parents can’t?
Bingo!
Just contributed what I could yesterday. Thank you! :)
With the sole exception that Good parents teach their kids how to shoot and defend themselves safely Parenting has nothing to do with right to keep and bare arms.
If a bill contains language to that effect it should be removed. This should be a repeal of law already passed not passing any new kind of law.
I think the foster parents need to think twice.
I was raised in a home with loaded guns, and even five-year-old me knew that if I ever touched one, the consequences would be dire. I never violated the rule. I have a healthy respect for firearms — call it gun sense.
But these foster parents won’t know anything about how the kids who come into their care have been raised. They’ll be dropped off, possibly in the middle of the night, with a garbage bag full of clothes. Will they respect your rules? Maybe. But it’s one thing if you tell them to go to bed and they ignore you. It’s quite another if they’re told, “Don’t mess with this gun” and they ignore you.
The consequences could be catastrophic for both parents and foster kids for no reason other than kid curiosity.
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