Every once in a while, reality serves up a helping of something so effing crazy, fiction would have rejected it as too implausible. As Rod Serling used to say on The Twilight Zone:
"Considered for your approval:"
The Daily Beast wrote:With Texas’s state senate once again debating controversial restrictions on abortion, security at the state capitol has been tightened to prevent disruptions from the gallery like those that occurred during state Sen. Wendy Davis’s 11-hour filibuster of the abortion bill on June 26. The Texas Department of Public Safety is searching the bags of anyone entering the gallery to watch debate and confiscating any tampons or maxipads found. There is concern that these female hygiene products could be used as projectiles and thrown at state senators. However, visitors can still bring guns into the gallery if they have a concealed carry license.
So you got that? A visitor might be so pissed off they cannot be trusted with a maxipad, but a 9mm Glock is okay. This is what passes for rational in Texas today.
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