Usually after a school or other mass shooting, or any event involving gunshots where people die for that matter, people say it is not the time to discuss gun control since that would be just plain political, and thoughts nd prayers will have to suffice until the next shooting.
Well. One state has gone ahead and addressed the gun problem.
Just this past week with protests still on going and the McCluskeys of St. Louis who had stood on their front lawn brandishing firearms aiming them at BLM marchers got to address the American people by way of the televised RNC Convention, the state of Missouri took action.
The Missouri House which is under GOP control advanced a bill that would make it legal to give guns to children without their parents’ permission after Governor Mike Parson, a Republican, called a special summer session on crime asking the legislature to penalize criminals who unlawfully use firearms, then pass them off on children to avoid detection.
The advanced bill is exactly opposite what Parson called for, and removes the old law that made it a misdemeanor to “recklessly” give a child a gun without their parents’ permission and replacing it with making it a felony to give firearms to minors if the intent is to avoid arrest or criminal investigation.
The new rule addresses grandparents or other family members who would not be charged for taking kids shooting or hunting without parental permission.
For a party that claims devotion to the nuclear family and declares parents have rights that the law cannot expunge, it seems odd tgat someone can take a kid hunting, give him a gun to use, and inconsistently and potentially dangerously teach the kid how to shoot without parental permission to do so, and without their knowledge before, during, and after the occurrence.
The law makes it easier to let kids play with guns while parents are unaware of this.
Parents who object to guns might be unaware that their family value is being secretly violated. Try that with a family’s religious values.
An attempted amendment to the bill that would keep it a misdemeanor for recklessly giving guns to children without permission was struck down 94-41.