By now, there are countries that warn their citizens to be careful about visiting the United States because of the widespread availability of guns.
Recently the Arkansas Supreme Court ruled that lawyers could bring guns into courthouses, though not into the courtroom.
The high court of Arkansas remanded its ruling to a judge who opposed it and told him to reach a different decision. The lower court judge called the decision LOCO, and the state Supreme Court removed him from the case.
Debra Hale-Shelton reported in the Arkansas Times:
Remember Circuit Judge Morgan “Chip” Welch‘s order that questioned the sanity of a recent Arkansas Supreme Court ruling allowing attorneys to carry guns in courthouses? It turns out the thin-skinned Supreme Court justices don’t like judges questioning the sanity of their rulings, even when there’s good reason to do so.
But on Monday, the Supreme Court ordered Welch removed from the case. The order came days after Welch nicknamed the high court’s order “Lawyer/officer-of-the-court Carry Opinion” and repeatedly referred to it by the acronym LOCO. In Spanish, “loco” translates to crazy or insane.
The state Supreme Court’s vote to allow lawyers to tote guns in courthouses overturned Welch’s earlier decision. It then fell to Welch, as the original judge in the case, to put the higher court’s order into action.
Welch put some temporary guns-in-courthouses rules in place pending an August hearing to address safety concerns. His rules temporarily allowed guns in the Pulaski County Courthouse but only in the “common areas” on the building’s first floor and nowhere else.
In his temporary order, Welch raised numerous questions that seem pretty important. For example, how can we make sure inmates in the courthouse for their hearings don’t get their hands on these guns? We should note that the high court’s decision excluded courtrooms from the places where guns could be brought.
The Supreme Court accused Judge Welch of violating the ethics code for judges and showing bias; it called for an expedited hearing on May 23 to consider what to do about an insolent judge.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
Judge Welch was being kind by calling the ruling loco or LOCO. The ruling is ignorant, moronic, vile, base and just plain stupid.
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Diane — here’s an article that everyone should read because it’s a national problem affecting public schools in every state:
“Can a billionaire make North Carolina’s public schools poor?” https://ncnewsline.com/2024/05/20/can-a-billionaire-make-north-carolinas-public-schools-poor/
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Thanks for the link quikwrit!”For example, from 2010 to 2016, Oregon millionaire John Bryan contributed $700,000 to dozens of North Carolina politicians to gain support for his “school reform” agenda. In 2016, his investment paid off with legislative approval for an “innovative” program to convert low-performing public schools into charter schools, which his corporation would manage for a fee.”Of course “his corporation would manage for a fee”!
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This is what happens when MAGA rules. “Stupid is as stupid does.” — Forrest Gump.
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Sounds to me like this Welch does not like a good story.
Back in 1906, there was a feud going between two families in Southwestern Virginia. Revenge killing had gone on some time before authorities decided that civilization needed to come to that community, so one of the parties was arrested and tried. Upon his conviction, his family opened fire in the courtroom. One of the jurors jumped out the window and fled to Harford County, Maryland. There he discovered that there was farmland for sale due to out-migration of the sons and daughters of farm families, and a ready market for fresh milk lay just to the south in Baltimore.
Thus was set up a connection between an area from Hillsville Virgina down the Blue Ridge mountains to West Jefferson North Carolina. It lasted until the 1980s. People would board a bus with all their belongings and move to work in the shoe factory or the aircraft factory.
I think these Arkansas politicians are just so far sighted that they see that these archaic policies and attitudes will make for really good stories a hundred years from now. Who know what some future generation Cormac McCarthy might get out of the possibility of arming aggrieved parties in a courtroom?
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