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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMissouri: The Shoot-Me State
Missouri: The Shoot-Me StateBy THE EDITORIAL BOARD SEPT. 16, 2016
In an alarming victory for the gun lobby, Missouris Republican-controlled Legislature voted Wednesday to override Gov. Jay Nixons veto and enact a wholesale retreat from gun safety in the state.
The law will let citizens carry concealed weapons in public without a state gun permit, criminal background check or firearms training.
It strips local law enforcement of its current authority to deny firearms to those guilty of domestic violence and to other high-risk individuals. And it establishes a dangerous stand your ground standard that will allow gun owners to shoot and claim self-defense based on their own sense of feeling threatened.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/16/opinion/missouri-the-shoot-me-state.html
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Missouri: The Shoot-Me State (Original Post)
workinclasszero
Sep 2016
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enough
(13,255 posts)1. A good place not to go, where the Gun is God. (nt)
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)2. Every criminal with a record, every wife beater
every idiot that will leave his loaded gun on the coffee table so his kid can pick it up and shoot yours when they are playing, every right wing freak hopped up on Fox news and hate radio with an ax to grind..now rule by the gun in Missouri.
I would stay far far away if possible.
Dustlawyer
(10,494 posts)3. This is real scary!
It will not turn out well!
yallerdawg
(16,104 posts)4. And we wonder why the police seem so paranoid...
when interacting with the public.
And - if you choose to exercise the second half of your 2nd Amendment right - really bad shit can happen, particularly from the first half exercisers - "A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state..."