The American Gun Culture sponsored by the US Supreme Court enabaled has reached expic stupidity…..
State Rep. Donna Baringer (D), who represents St. Louis and sponsored the amendment to H.B. 301, said she brought the proposal to the chamber after police in her district requested tighter regulations to stop “14-year-olds walking down the middle of the street in the city of St. Louis carrying AR-15s.”
“Now they have been emboldened, and they are walking around with them,” Baringer said. “Until they actually brandish them, and brandish them with intent, our police officers’ hands are handcuffed.”
While critics and Democrats denounced Republican lawmakers for defeating the proposal, some GOP lawmakers, such as state Rep. Tony Lovasco, defended the decision.
“Government should prohibit acts that directly cause measurable harm to others, not activities we simply suspect might escalate,” Lovasco, who represents the St. Louis suburb of O’Fallon, told The Washington Post in a statement. “Few would support banning unaccompanied kids in public places, yet one could argue such a bad policy might be effective. While it’s reasonable to be wary of minors’ carrying guns, any solution to juvenile crime needs to be crafted properly and respectful of individual rights.”…
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Both Democratic and Republican lawmakers were initially optimistic that they could agree on restrictions surrounding children and open-carry after a bipartisan group in the chamber proposed the limits last month. Roberts, who represents part of Jasper and Newton counties, told the state’s House Crime Prevention and Public Safety Committee last week that while he did not want to diminish the Second Amendment, letting children openly carry firearms in public places “is not what the Second Amendment is about.”
“This is about people who don’t have the life experience to make a decision about the consequences of having that gun in their possession,” Roberts said, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. “Why is an 8-year-old carrying a sidearm in the street?”….
A well-regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the children to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
Yea DSD…..
MY point exactly….
The 2nd has NOTHING to do with private citizens ‘Right to Bear Arms’…
The Supreme ‘s INVENTED THAT…..
Another example of “conservative values.”
Conservativism is garbage.
Take ur pick of ‘what’ Conservativism IS 🙄?