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07.24.2008 7:28am EDT
(Oklahoma City, Oklahoma) A state lawmaker who gained national notoriety with an anti-homosexual rant was stopped from entering the state Capitol Wednesday when she was found to have a loaded handgun in her purse, the Oklahoma Highway Patrol said.
Patrol spokeswoman Chris West said Republican Rep. Sally Kern was not charged because there did not appear to be any “malicious intent” behind her actions.West said officers are allowed to “use their brains” when determining if an arrest should be made in such instances.
West also confirmed a second incident in which Kern made it into the building with a gun in June.
Kern complained earlier this year of receiving death threats after an audio clip was posted on YouTube in which she calls homosexuality a bigger threat to the U.S. than terrorism.
Guns and knives are prohibited in the Capitol and those who enter must pass through an airport-style security checkpoint, including a metal detector and an X-ray machine. It is a misdemeanor to bring a weapon inside.
Kern told The Associated Press Wednesday that both incidents were simple mistakes.
The first time, the weapon got through the security checkpoint, she said.
“I got all the way up to my office before I realized I had it, so I reported it,” she said.
On Wednesday, she said she forgot to take the .380 caliber semiautomatic handgun out of her purse after she stopped to talk to a colleague.
“It was an honest mistake from being out of my routine, you know,” she said.
Kern said she had a permit for the gun and had carried it long before the YouTube controversy.
Of course homosexuals are a bigger threat to the United States than terrorism. We should have claimed credit for blowing up the World Trade Center, highjacking that plane that crashed in pennsylvania, we raise money to fight foreigh wars against the United States and we teach our children to be gay so they can have gay kids. Oh whait, if our kids are gay how can they ave kids and if we are gay we usually don’t have kids. Let us marry each other and then we can not usually have kids and we should die out in one generation. Oh, you mean it does not work that way. Funny how illogical logic really is. Just another sad case of politicians being stupid.
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The first thing I thought of when reading the story of gun-totin’ Sally Kerns , was the tragic murder of Harvery Milk and the Mayor , George Moscone by a former county supervisor with a pathological hatred towards gays. It is well established to anyone with any degree of enlightenment that this lady is completely uninformed when it comes to homosexual persons , along with self evident paranoia about us….the most dangerous people in America ?? The only thing I’ve ever been consistently accused of is dreadful fashion violations. (And the charges always stuck!)
Since it was her second offense, she should have been arrested. I truly dislike her, and I am ashamed to say that I am a citizen of Oklahoma. Unfortunately, I’m a teen and can’t do anything about it.
Just another example of how absolutely stupid and bigoted this ‘woman’ is. Her head is empty, except for religious hatred and paranoia. Sick, Sick Sick. Maybe, God forbid, if she comes home and finds one of her children in a pool of blood, a gun in their hand, and an explanatory note – “Mom, I’m gay” she will realize what she and her religion really represent.
And the police – something about equal justice under the law, I thought. Certainly a misdemeanor, or perhaps she should be excused, and tested for relatively early Altsheimers disease.
I admit this isn’t a nice post – it is intended to try and shock peoples minds into realizing what kind of non-functional society we have here in America, of which her kind is a perfect example.
I guess there is two sets of laws in Oklahoma, one that applies to citizens and one that applies to Kern.