You're right, Charles. Utah has such amazing gun laws that an illegal one day ban doesn't give anybody from other states standing to ridicule it.
It is a perfectly valid point for discussion and disagreement.
For example, I do not care to have State law violated/ignored. I recognize the supremacy of federal law, but question whether there is a law at work in this case vs merely a policy or rule. We might also discuss what State (and/or federal) law
should be in cases such as this? Is it constitutional/reasonable to allow for gun free secure zones for the protection of certain high profile government officials? Is it politically possible to win a battle against such zones?
But yes, the gun laws in Utah are, in fact, so good that anyone who presumes to ridicule even a one day gun ban that might (or may not) be illegal, better be very sure he isn't living in a glass house first. As I check my history, about once every 10 years, we get a 1 day ban, in one building, where a high ranking federal official is speaking. Shall we compare that to the 3650 days over that same period that private citizens were banned from bringing guns into all buildings on all college campuses in Wisconsin? Two days, one building when a supreme court justice or VP is speaking, vs 3650 days in all college buildings regardless of who isn't there. And someone presumes to ridicule Utah? Pretty rich when directed at a State so often accused of not treating people like adults. What does that mean about any State that won't let 22 year old college seniors, or even their faculty and staff carry a gun into a college building? How does my State compare in this regard to your State? Or any State where you've politically active?
If someone wants to ridicule Utah gun laws or how we handle these--for us being part of the nation's "fly over country"--fairly rare speeches from our rulers (I mean federal public servants), the proper direction for the ridicule is that when we passed our State Preemption law and made is so good, we failed to think ahead to the likely security requirements of presidents and SCOTUS justices to provide an exemption. We started from the presumption guns should be permitted everyone and missed an item or even or two on the short list of places where maybe private gun would need to be excluded. Silly us. We clearly should have done what most other States do which is start with the presumption guns are allowed no where and then start adding a short list of "RKBA zones" where they deign to permit guns.
(Make sure your sarcasm meter is properly tuned before taking offense to any of the above.)
Surely there's a Utah-only gun forum where you can post this without having your highbrow discussion muddied by us proles.
Probably not. I find the proles like to seek out opportunity to display themselves. But I can hold my hold in reminding you what the proper boundaries of discussion are.
All in good fun my friend.
Charles