On a 9-8 vote, the House Judiciary Committee has killed Sen. Lee Heider’s bill to invalidate all local regulations on the use, carrying or manufacture of knives – including the rules at schools and jails. Heider, R-Twin Falls, said his bill would assert state primacy over knife regulations, to avoid a patchwork of different rules from city to city or from school district to school district. “We’re trying to get away from every school board in the state having to promulgate their own rule,” Heider told the representatives. “What we’re saying is primacy is important.” He declared, “It should be the state that has primacy over knives – not individual school districts, not individual cities or communities. I think that you’ll find that most people in the state are in favor of this. I know the sportsmen certainly are”/Betsy Russell, Eye on Boise. More here.

Question: It's scary that the vote was 9-8. It'll be interesting to see how legislators in Kootenai County voted. Thoughts?