A Felony to File Gun Laws? Is Missouri a Laughingstock?
Countless publications have pointed at legislation filed by pro-gun-ownership state Rep. Mike Leara as an example of how polarized the debate is.
Republican Missouri state Rep. Mike Leara of Sunset Hills launched a wave of blog posts and news articles this week (including an earlier article on Patch) when he introduced legislation that, if passed, would criminalize the act of introducing anti-gun legislation. That's right: Proposing a law could get a member of the General Assembly thrown in the slammer. Of course, it won't pass. Even he says so, in a statement widely repeated around the Internet in which he calls the proposed law a "statement in defense of the Second Amendment rights of all Missourians." His proposal would make it a class D felony, punishable by up to four years in prison, to introduce legislation that restricts gun ownership. That has made a list by Politico of …
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Reverend Scott E. Lee
11:30 pm on Thursday, March 21, 2013
I propose that ALL firearms can be banned without violating the Second Amendment. As a reminder, this is the text that was ratified by the States: "A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed." It is NOT the same as the text passed by the Congress: "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the … more ›