The bill was a complete waste of time.
Nevertheless, when you are a senator with an eye on statewide office and you are a member of a party that has become obsessed with wasting time bellowing at the federal government, you might be throwing aside your future in statewide politics.
So Richard took the unusual step of releasing a complete bill, a reworking of HB 436, well before bills can be prefiled.
It was almost everything a federal government-hating, my guns or the highway Tea Partier could want in a bill. In fact, the only real changes from HB 436 were the elimination of a provision that would make it a crime to publish the names of gun owners and it will not create the spectacle of federal law enforcement officers being arrested if they try to enforce gun laws.
Other than that, it's an open invitation for the same kind of nationwide ridicule that HB 436 brought to the Show-Me State.
Richard's bill is expected to be one of the first to be pre-filed this week.
Just a few highlights from Richard's bill:
-The first five pages are a tirade against the federal government and a rally for 10th Amendment rights.
-Just like HB 436, the bill insists that Missouri will not obey federal gun laws, past, present or future...as if we had any choice.
-The bill prohibits the taxing of guns or ammunition, tracking of gun purchases or ownership because it might create "a chilling effect' on the purchase and ownership of guns.
-School districts may designate one or more teachers at elementary or secondary schools as gun-toting school protection officers. Those teachers would be required to carry guns at all times and if they did not, they could be fired.
-Prohibits health care professionals from asking if a patient is a gun owner or from sharing that information with law enforcement officials if they happen to come upon it.
Missouri has real issues that need to be discussed. Unfortunately, we are going to waste more time with bills like this one.
The only reason the bill is necessary is to save Ron Richard's option of running for lieutenant governor..
4 comments:
Protest! Protest! Protest!
MO Legislators will resume their duty in Jan. Get ready for more pathetic laws from the misguided. We have to get our posters ready and stand in front of their district offices monthly. This will be a win-win. Not only will we get the message to their constituents, register voters, you might also improve 2014 voter turn-out. Let's wake up the Democrats in rural America and make them aware that their votes for Republican is the PROBLEM!
Protest! Protest! Protest!
MO Legislators will resume their duty in Jan. Get ready for more pathetic laws from the misguided. We have to get our posters ready and stand in front of their district offices monthly. This will be a win-win. Not only will we get the message to their constituents, register voters, you might also improve 2014 voter turn-out. Let's wake up the Democrats in rural America and make them aware that their votes for Republican is the PROBLEM!
As someone who for example doesn't believe in concealed carry and therefore effective self-defense outside the home, I submit that you are not the best judge of what this state's gun owners desire and what we want our representatives to do.
As residents of "fly over country", we're already subject to "nationwide ridicule" ... if you define the nation as the coastal elites plus enclaves like Chicago, who cannot retain from insulting us, saying we suffer from false consciousness etc. etc. ad nauseam.
But, you know, at the end of the day we're still going to have our guns, and the potential for our self-appointed betters exercising their worst desires towards us will continue to be firmly checked.
Nobody needs to carry a gun. Hell a T-ball Bat will work every bit as well and you do not need a permit to own one.
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