Yeehaw!

Texans can now open carry guns into Texas state mental hospitals.  Hell, child, even law enforcement checks their guns before they enter state mental hospitals.  Cops aren’t carrying in the hospital but Jim Bob and Rufus can go duck hunting out the windows of Ward D.

Visitors to one of Texas’ 10 state mental health hospitals will be allowed to openly carry weapons into the facilities, according to the Texas Department of State Health Services. Employees and patients will still be barred from bringing in weapons.

The majority of the patients in the hospitals are civilly-committed — not criminally — so most of the facilities don’t have armed security guards, though some do, said Mitchell, whose group monitors the state hospitals. Police officers entering the hospitals routinely do not bring in their firearms, she said.

Republicans claim that it is the duty of the state hospital to “ensure that the patients are not around dangerous weapons.”  Now how are the hospitals supposed to do that?  Chain gun toters to the entryway wall?

Hell, mental hospitals were the last refuge of safe places to be away from people with guns.

Check that off the list.