This is just the best news for several reasons. First, this bill will go nowhere. Second, the bill will seal the political fate of its sponsor and we’ll be rid of her at the next election. Third, the bill will help sound an alarm for all Americans to pay special attention to their elected officials’ response to serious issues.

This bill is unnecessary, overreaching, and redundant in terms of tracking firearms owners. Just imagine the thrill of having a bunch of liberal school teachers treat your child as if he or she is from Mars once they review the new list of children with parents who own guns. Anytime people start a discussion about making some new list to track people and their habits it sounds an alarm, can you hear it?????

In closing; who would fund this new program? If we can afford this program wouldn’t the money be better spent on armed police officers guarding our children in school?

This is how the uber-left works. They demonize things they don't like. It will take time, but eventually, with the assistance of their liberal cousins, the media, they will instill a sense of shame in the concept of legally owning a constitutionally protected gun. They did it with cigarettes. They are now doing it to fat people. You could be next. As stated above, this has about as much chance of passing as the NRA endorsing Old Joe Biden for president in four years.

The only useful idea in this bill is that firearms should be stored securely - which is nothing more than common sense. Having to inform schools of firearms ownership is ridiculous. There's nothing in the bill to say how the schools should use this information to anyone's benefit, and there's nothing to say how the schools should limit the distribution of this information to protect people's privacy.
For all we know the result of this could be students - remember, they are children - finding out which schoolmates have weapons in the homes, and taunting each other to bring them to school to show them off.
Actions have costs and consequences. The sillier the action, the more likely these consequences will be out of control and unintentional.

This bill provides a rare moment where a normal person can agree with fear-mongering right-wing gun nut losers. The bill is moronic.

The Missouri legislature - with Tim Jones, and Brian Nieves and this lady- what a joke they are. The best we can hope for is that we have enough morons on each side to balance each other out.

At this point, anything that calls attention to the problem is a start. How do you enforce this? How do you enforce the seat belt law? How do you enforce driving without a license?

While I applaud the bill's intent, it is problematic for several reasons. What exactly would the school do with this information? How would it be safeguarded? How exactly would it address the very real issues of access to firearms and gun violence? I think a carefully designed, controlled, secure national database is a much better idea where these issues could be hashed out, out in the open.

flyoverland said: "eventually, with the assistance of their liberal cousins, the media, they will instill a sense of shame in the concept of legally owning a constitutionally protected gun. They did it with cigarettes." What a wonderful insight! The kind of cultural change we have seen with smoking -- from glamorous, acceptable, and ubiquitous to maligned, dirty, lower-class, restricted, and pathetic (an addiction, after all) -- can and will take place with respect to guns with or without legislation, due to the daily-increasing evidence of abuse of the vast firepower in private hands in this country, and also to increasing evidence of the extent to which the in fact marginal self-defense benefits are outweighed by personal, family, and public health risks. It may be unwise, useless, or even counterproductive to involve the schools, but the cultural change can begin with parents always asking about guns in homes their children wish to visit and saying "absolutely not" if the response is that there is a gun in the home. The kids will learn their respective parents' positions, and can discuss it amongst themselves, but the gun-owning parents will learn there are some negative consequences of gun ownership to how their neighbors perceive them. www.commongroundonguns.com

Just the sampling here seems to indicate that reporting gun ownership to a school is a horrible idea. But a few more reasons why it is horrible. What about people who don't have kids? Is the assumption that only people with kids own guns? What about illegal guns? Will illegal gun owners now flock to the schools to rat themselves out? Can they be forced to self-incriminate themselves? What's next-food with high fructose corn syrup, two liter bottles of soda, or prescription medications. Further the law does not address the Newtown situation as it relates only to parents with kids under 18 and does not address mental health issues. The law also only would apply if the parent is "grossly negligent" is securing the gun and not just negligent. If the bill's sponsor could define when negligence crosses the line to gross negligence it would be helpful for those trying to secure their guns to know. My guess is that this has more to do with a person who wants her name out there as she runs for office than a bill that was well thought out.

"SB 124 - This act creates the offense of failing to stop illegal firearm possession. A person commits the offense if he or she is the parent or guardian of a child under the age of 18, he or she knows the child possesses a firearm in violation of the law, and he or she fails to stop the possession or report it to law enforcement."

"This act also creates the offense of negligent storage of a firearm. A parent or guardian of a child under the age of 18 commits the offense by recklessly storing or leaving a firearm in a manner that is likely to result in the child accessing the firearm if the child obtains access to the firearm and unlawfully carries it to school, kills or injures another person with it, or commits a crime with it."

Well, most of this sounds fine - but don't we already have laws regarding firearm negligence? But this thing just goes completely off the rails with the school notification. what, like some kind of sex offender? what's next, disclosing to schools about what prescription medications are in the home? (which honestly would be more relevant to safety!)

How come no one is calling attention to the need for more counseling of the students with the behavior problems or bullying problems to start with? This is where we need funding. We need people to help these children and adults to solve their problems without violence. Gun ownership in itself does not mean that you are a violent person about to go off and hurt people. There are responsiblie people that own guns and irresponsible people that don't. Please get the funding and the laws in the right place. Help those kids who need it with counseling and ways to cope with stress and conflict resolution.

More laws that that get the government more into our lives. Time to stop this. What is next from the "STATE". 1984 - cameras in our homes to be sure we are doing nothing "wrong" the "STATE" doesn't like?

Another attempt at governmental invasion of personal rights and freedoms. It's none of their business if a person owns legal firearms.

the stupidity of such law says a lot about the person who wants to see such law passed

Will the teachers say if they have guns to. here i will answer that HELL NO