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JEFFERSON CITY A Missouri bill that would expand the right to shoot and kill someone in self-defense died in committee Thursday after being panned by members of law enforcement.
Senate Bill 666, proposed by southwest Missouri's Sen. Eric Burlison, a Battlefield Republican, would have changed state law to presume self-defense in cases where physical or deadly force was used or threatened.
In this legislative session, it won't go any further after it was voted down by a Senate committee Thursday morning. Sen. Lincoln Hough, a Springfield Republican, joined another Republican and two Democrats to reject the bill in a 4-3 vote.
Burlison's office said the bill was modeled after an existing Florida law and would "protect law abiding citizens from rogue prosecutors who have an agenda against the Second Amendment."
https://www.news-leader.com/story/news/politics/2022/02/10/bill-expanding-deadly-force-condemned-police-dies-committee/6735928001/
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)iemanja
(53,001 posts)That is what they see the 2nd amendment is, and they are correct in that.
sdfernando
(4,896 posts)seems so apropos!
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dsc
(52,130 posts)the cops were against the law, not for it, and the law gave the public the right not just cops.
AZLD4Candidate
(5,558 posts)MarineCombatEngineer
(12,092 posts)You screwed that one up big time. the article is the exact opposite of your nonsense.
BTW, welcome to DU, for however long.