Senate Bill 3589

[jmatt511]

Will US Senate Bill 3589 make it illegal for churches and other religious institutions to hire armed security?

[AlmostHeaven]

Relax. The bill will never make it past the Senate filibuster, let alone the Republican-majority House of Representatives.

[Dan_Eastvale]

We've already seen video of an armed congregation saving the day.

this will be DOA

[AlmostHeaven]

We've already seen video of an armed congregation saving the day.

this will be DOA

The recent attempted mass shooting at the megachurch in Houston counts as another example of an armed congregation halting an attack.

[DCoakley]

This will not pass...

[AlmostHeaven]

This will not pass...

The House of Representatives:

[Rickybillegas]

This bill (SB 3589) is not actually aimed at churches.

It is actually called the "Preventing Private Paramilitary act of 2024.
It is primarily aimed at right wing militia groups and was discussed in another thread. However, OP question is valid because (as always will stretch), democrats will use this enforcement to declare church security groups as 'paramilitary'. This is why this bill is raising red flags in the 2nd amendment community.
As ridiculous as this sounds, this could very well be within anti 2nd amendment targets. Militias in general get no sympathy from democrats or RINO republicans at all. (Mitt, Susan, Lisa...........).

As for this never passing, I wish I could be so sure. You see, because the bill is not cloaked as an 'anti-church security bill' but an anti-militia bill, I wouldn't count on not having enough R senators or mushy R congress critters crossing the line. Didn't Biden get his bi-partisan control bill?

[AlmostHeaven]

This bill (SB 3589) is not actually aimed at churches.

It is actually called the "Preventing Private Paramilitary act of 2024.
It is primarily aimed at right wing militia groups and was discussed in another thread. However, OP question is valid because (as always will stretch), democrats will use this enforcement to declare church security groups as 'paramilitary'. This is why this bill is raising red flags in the 2nd amendment community.
As ridiculous as this sounds, this could very well be within anti 2nd amendment targets. Militias in general get no sympathy from democrats or RINO republicans at all. (Mitt, Susan, Lisa...........).

As for this never passing, I wish I could be so sure. You see, because the bill is not cloaked as an 'anti-church security bill' but an anti-militia bill, I wouldn't count on not having enough R senators or mushy R congress critters crossing the line. Didn't Biden get his bi-partisan control bill?

The Bipartisan Safer Communities Act required a huge mass shooting at an elementary school in Texas, the most progressive-dominated House of Representatives in American history, and stabs in the back from Mitch McConnell and John Cornyn. During an election year with a fairly conservative Speaker of the House, the stars remain substantially less likely to align for gun control.