Missouri: The Shoot-Me State – The New York Times
Missouri Republicans just stripped law enforcement of necessary authority and allowed people to forgo a gun permit or training.
I mean what could go wrong?
"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."
You hear the NRA whine about reasonable gun control ( back ground checks, permit for concealed weapons ) but they seem to have no problem with unreasonable gun ownership. What could possibly go wrong with everybody carrying a concealed weapon?
Nothing. It won't change a thing.
This is about as bad as the federal government dumping class 3 weapons in Chicago's poorest areas to fuel gun violence their.
+Keith Simonian unreasonable gun ownership? What does that mean?
um… those guilty of domestic violence and to other high-risk individuals? Is it reasonable to sell them a firearm or allow them to carry one, openly, without a permit?
+Paul Spoerry If it's not, make the penalty for those crimes a loss of that right, but don't just leave it up to a random Sheriff dept. to strip that right.
Missouri, the new Florida just all shooty and shit.
+George Rapko but this new law allows them. It's nothing to do with current rights, it expands it to even those guilty of domestic violence and to other high-risk individuals. But you know… 'Murica! PEW PEW PEW
+Paul Spoerry please explain how this law would give people guilty of domestic violence the legal authorization to carry a weapon.
+George Rapko Feel free to actually READ the link.
+Paul Spoerry oh, I read the link. Why don't you read my previous comment? If the state wishes to make domestic violence a reason to restrict the right to carry, they should make the penalty for domestic violence the restriction on that right.
Maybe you don't read to good. Prior to this law they woul dhave been denied a permit to carry. Because of this law they can. "…it would allow individuals with a criminal record to legally carry a concealed firearm even though they had been, or would have been, denied a permit under the old law’s background check."
+Paul Spoerry maybe you don't understand so good. The state can restrict those rights with a change in the sentencing for those specific crimes that the state believes warrants that punishment.
Of course they could but they didn't.
+Paul Spoerry but at least they make the law clear.
I have no idea what that last comment is supposed to mean.
+Paul Spoerry that different crimes warrant different punishments and the legislative branch of that state should be the body that defines those punishments. That's not a difficult thing to comprehend.
+Paul Spoerry Hell, after reading some of Missouri's gun laws, no a person who is convicted of a felony cannot now carry because of this law change.
sigh I never said felony. Additionally, domestic violence is not always classified as a felony.
+Paul Spoerry sigh federal law already prohibits someone convicted of dv from carrying a weapon.