Last night, Stephen Colbert aired the second installment of “Mr. Smith Goes to the State Legislature, Then Later Possibly Washington.”

Colbert featured a Republican from Arizona, state Senator Ron Gould, who has achieved notoriety for introducing Senate Bill 1201, otherwise known as the “Firearms Omnibus” bill.

Provisions include:

·       Allowing people to carry firearms into all government buildings and public events that get government permits.

·       Changing current law to make it a crime to “knowingly” discharge a firearm within city limits (current standard is “with criminal negligence”). Violators of this law could be convicted only if the prosecution could prove the defendant knew that shooting the gun could result in someone’s death or injury.

·       Allowing people to sue if they feel they were illegally stopped for carrying a firearm into a government facility or event. If the government fails to pay a successful plaintiff within 72 hours of judgment, that person has the right to seize as payment “any municipal vehicles used or operated for the benefit of any elected office holder” in the government agency defendant in the suit.

 Or, as Colbert puts it,

Gould’s bill would make it legal for a person who does not know if they have a gun to go into the sheriff’s office, tell them you don’t have a gun, then sue the department, then carjack the sheriff’s cruiser and drive down the main street, firing out of the roof, as long as that person does not understand that bullets can hurt people.

Take a look: