Missouri Bill Would Make it a Felony to Propose Gun Control

A state representative's plan would send his colleagues to jail

Missouri lawmakers would be sent to jail for proposing gun control legislation, if one of their colleagues has his way.

State Rep. Mike Leara, a St. Louis County Republican, has proposed a bill making it a felony punishable with up to four years in prison for anyone who proposes "a piece of legislation that further restricts the right of an individual to bear arms, as set forth under the second amendment of the Constitution of the United States."

Leara said he filed the bill as a matter of principle and doesn't expect it to pass.

"I have no illusions about the bill making it through the legislative process, but I want it to be clear that the Missouri House will stand in defense of the people's constitutional right to keep and bear arms," he said in a statement.

Rep. Charlie Norr, D-Springfield, told the News-Leader newspaper that debates should be allowed on the issue of gun control.

"That's like the most absurd thing I've heard in my life," Norr said about the bill.

Via the News Leader and Buzzfeed

Is this bill that would make proposing gun control a felony a good idea?

[Hireman]

Gun control infringes on rights, however it is people's rights to propose change in any law. It should be a felony to prevent anyone from presenting any bill.

[Sonny]

Tell that to those crazy right wing Republicans in Missouri.

[Zazziness]

Both sides of the Missouri political scene have clearly lost their minds.

[justapirate]

Ah, posturing and dancing. Politicians at work. I guess I give him kudos for making a statement. Would like to see less time spent on bills that aren't meant to go anywhere, though.

[TheJimmy]

Putting as many politicians in prison as possible is never a bad thing.

[AntiPorcheria]

"The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers." - Dick the Butcher, Henry The Sixth, Part 2 Act 4, scene 2, 71–78, Billy Wigglestick

[MadAmerican]

I'm glad someone is fighting back with paper over confiscation, rather than fighting back with bullets, which may happen.

[tomincali]

seems to be what they are pushing for. all in office seems to think they are our rulers instead of employees.

[Gtiallday]

I'm sick of reading about guns! I swear if Americans would take their head out of their buttocks and focused their attention on something more important like let's say, the economy with the same passion as they do with their precious guns, we'd actually be getting somewhere.

[wonka45ACP]

If you "practice what you preach" and leave the subject matter alone. things that really!
make a difference, just may get the attention it deserves! but I know libs can't do that!
so why do you continue reading something that makes you sick????

[USailCapital]

@wonka45ACP
Liberals practice what they preach? Yea like that would ever happen.

[jamie91]

How about the lawmakers stop making stupid laws they know are not going to pass and focus on their JOBS. Must be nice to have so much free time and resources to waste while on the taxpayer dime.

[harold_lloyd]

Amen.

[marine1]

Ya know, if goverment would stop trying to crawl up every crevice our personal lives and pay more attention to this piss poor financial shape this country is in, we might all be a lot better off.

[MikeC]

Republicans just do not get it for some reason and this right wing State Representative is a prime example of what is wrong with the GOP. Making it illegal to debate or propose a law you do not agree with is some thing I would have expected in Nazi Germany back in the 1930's. We do have a 1st Amendment right that affords us freedom of speech.

[Arumizy]

And disarming the populace, searching their homes to make sure their guns are stored how you view them as properly stored etc are no worse then what this guy is trying to do. Trying to restrict rights is not the answer to a problem, all it does is causes more problems.
Its fair play to be honest, you try to take our rights we try to take yours.

[Thunderchicken]

The bill was proposed to illustrate the absurdity of another proposed bill. I'd say it's been affective.

[Thunderchicken]

@Thunderchicken

Effective.(Damn fat fingers.)

[marine1]

@Thunderchicken Absurdity is often a common denominator of a progressive agitator who likes to restrict the freedoms of the lawabiding people in this country.

[Thunderchicken]

@marine1

I can't believe that Weber (he sponsored the gun confiscation bill) arguing that this bill violated the first amendment.

[Food4thoughts]

Damn...don't even think about gun control!

[NTBFW]

There should be a penalty for violating the constitution.

[PoliticalSpice]

Their is, but the voters are too lazy and uniformed to enforce it...

[NTBFW]

@PoliticalSpice it should be a crime.

[PoliticalSpice]

@NTBFW Yea, think that one out. Instead of hurling snarky quips at each other on here we could do it in a prison cafeteria. The remedies that are in place need to be used. Voters can use them if only they start to think and understand the importance of what is at stake. In absense of that making it a crime would make little difference. It is in certian instances, and those laws are largely unenforced.

[NTBFW]

@PoliticalSpice I am thinking about presidents and legislators should be prosecuted for violating the constitution. Regardless of party lines.

[whataGOVwehave]

@NTBFW the president and his crew would be in deep sh** if this was so....I like it.

[Keyjo]

"Come here, Norman. Hurry up. The loons! The loons! They're welcoming us back."

[Arumizy]

Both sides are starting to push things to far.

[bsking]

Sweet

[culinary]

Where is the option, "the whole world is losing its mind"?

[Thegrif]

Look it is making a point, don't mess with their guns.
A point I agree with 100%.
Cars are used irresponsibly everyday by millions of people, and kill more people annually, but I don't see us outlawing or restricting horsepower, or lowering speed limits, or making it manditory to have built in breath analyzer before cars will start.
More kids killed that way than by a gun every year.
So this obviously is not about protecting people, so what is it about?

Limiting the degree in which we can defend ourselves? Why would our own gov't not want us to be able to defend ourselves? Unless... They know something we don't. Unless... They don't want us to be able to one day defend ourselves against them.
Now go ahead and make fun of me for saying that, but where I come from- if it looks like a duck and sounds like a duck, then son, it's a duck!
Molon Labe

[justapirate]

So many things I disagree with you about and I had to vote you up on this. Now I'm all confused.

[thatgirl]

How about expecting my lawmakers to NOT waste MY money on crap like this in Jeff City?

[Thegrif]

@justapirate well the plan is to keep us confused and fighting among ourselves.
That much is obvious.

[thatgirl]

WTF is wrong with the lawmakers in MO????

We have much more important things that we need to worry about.

[Thunderchicken]

KTRS interviewed the guy who proposed it. He was trying to illustrate the absurdity of the first bill.

[thatgirl]

@Thunderchicken Still, its a waste of taxpayer money.

[Thunderchicken]

@thatgirl

Slow legislation day?

[thatgirl]

@Thunderchicken Lol!

[DapperDave]

"I'm want to throw anyone who proposes gun control (thereby threatening my "perceived" Second Amendment rights) in jail (thereby denying them their First Amendment rights)." Can these gun worshipping kooks get any crazier? Of course, this deranged piece of "proposed" legislation has about as much chance of becoming law as I have of being elected to the baseball Hall of Fame.

[Grubby]

The only reason he proposed this is because of the Liberal Loon senator from Missouri who proposed the gun ban. Liberals can be as stupid as they want, but when it gets thrown back in their face they hate it....don't you?

[DapperDave]

@Grubby You're just making it up as you go along, aren't you Grubby? The "Liberal Loon" senator, as you describe him, did not propose a GUN ban; he proposed an assault weapons ban. But, don't let anything as insignificant as the truth stop you from posting wild exaggerations and bald-faced lies.

[Grubby]

@DapperDave It is a Gun Ban...the definition he uses of an "assault weapon" hits just about everything, including .22 caliber pea shooters. Look it up.

[MongoAPillager]

UUmm,an(Assault weapon) (terminology commonly used by diaper wearing uninformed populace)is a gun,so by any sane logic a gun ban

[DapperDave]

@MongoAPillager No, boo boo, that's like saying banning top fuel dragsters from being driven on public roads (which they are) is a "car ban". Banning assault weapons is not a "gun ban". It's an assault weapons ban, meaning you can still keep all your other pistols, rifles, shotguns, etc.- and even go out and buy more of the same, meaning it's NOT a "gun ban". Got it?

[DerivePI]

"Translation for Dummies" - Will stomping on the first keep the other group from stomping on the second?

[DARSB]

What a silly gesture and waste of legislative resources. Couldn't this guy have used his opportunity to introduce a useful bill, like fix a bridge or something?

[kathyparsell]

Stop the madness! I post that to my Facebook friends on both sides all the time. I believe that this proposed bill is another way of saying the same thing.