Do These Legislators Even Know What They are Doing?

    If ever there were an example of law makers passing bills without knowing what they were talking about and what they were doing, perhaps this is it. 

    Take a resolution arising from national discussion about Critical Race Theory. "I have no idea what it is," admitted Utah State Sen. Lincoln Fillmore (R-South Jordan). "I looked up two dozen definitions, and they were all different."

   And, he was the one sponsoring the legislation.

   Then, there was the issue of Utah becoming a Second Amendment sanctuary state -- a state refusing to comply with national laws on guns. Senate Majority Leader Evan Vickers (R-Cedar City), who sponsored a declaration, explained there has been some "saber-rattling" in Washington, D.C., "about someone coming in and taking away guns or restricting the use of guns on the federal level."

   But when Vickers was asked which policies he was referring to, he failed to be able to name them. "Right now, admittedly, there are none," is the best he was able to do to field the question."

    There's an old expression, of people shooting wildly into the night, of not knowing what they might hit or who they might harm -- just firing a broadly and blindly into the night, as if to say, "Who knows what's out there, but it's dead now."

    Isn't that what Utah's legislators are doing? 

 (Note: Information and direct quotes used to write this blog were taken from Salt Lake Tribune articles of May 20, 2021.)