Wisconsin Republican Lawmaker and Speaker Pro Tem Bill Kramer is Packin'

The Chicago Tribune reports

The Republican lawmaker who presides over the state Assembly said Friday he's been carrying a concealed weapon during floor sessions.

Speaker Pro Tem Bill Kramer, of Waukesha, essentially controls the chamber during debate, presiding over procedures and controlling the debate. He also can order spectators out of the chamber if he so chooses.

He told The Associated Press that he obtained permit No. 16,657 under Wisconsin's new concealed carry law in November. He said he has carried a hidden Glock 26, a subcompact semi-automatic, onto the floor at times.

The reason, I mean besides the fact that it's his god-given, basic-human, inalienable, constitutionally protected right to do so, is this:

Bands of protesters still angry over Republican Gov. Scott Walker's contentious collective bargaining law have spent the past year harassing GOP legislators.

One threw a beer on state Rep. Robin Vos, R-Burlington, co-chairman of the Legislature's powerful finance committee, in a Madison bar in September. Last week, protesters heckled Walker from the Assembly's overhead galleries as the governor delivered his state-of-the-state address in the chamber. The next night during debate on a divisive mining permit bill, Kramer ordered the galleries cleared after agitators hung a banner over a railing and hurled profanities at lawmakers.

Don't you love that "hurled profanities at lawmakers," justification?

This is why they hang onto the 2A-right nonsense so tenaciously, if we examine the other reasons they look pretty foolish.

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