“ChatGPT, please write me the most American headline possible”
It’s not going to stop.
It didn’t stop with a mass shooting a day.
It didn’t stop with children dying. Multiple times.
Maybe it would stop if the mass shooters shot up republicans, but that seems unlikely, and it probably wouldn’t stop then anyway.
I can see the headlines now. “27 dead at cpac shooting. Gop declares this changes nothing”
I don’t understand what banning minors from carrying firearms on public land without adult supervision has to do with any of those other things.
We know you don’t.
Obviously you don’t either.
Rep. Tony Lovasco, a Republican from the St. Louis suburb of O’Fallon. “Generally speaking, we don’t charge people with crimes because we think they’re going to hurt someone.”
Too much to unpack here.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
(AP) — Missouri’s Republican-led House on Wednesday voted against banning minors from openly carrying firearms on public land without adult supervision.
Democratic Rep. Donna Baringer said police in her district asked for the change to stop “14-year-olds walking down the middle of the street in the city of St. Louis carrying AR-15s.”
Republican Rep. Lane Roberts —- a former Joplin, Missouri police chief and state public safety director — initially included the restrictions on children possessing guns in a broader crime bill, which the House voted to give initial approval to later Wednesday.
“Every time we talked about the provision related to guns, we knew that that was going to be difficult on our side of the aisle,” Roberts said Wednesday.
Republican lawmakers for years have criticized Gardner, a 47-year-old Democrat first elected in 2016 as St. Louis’ first Black female prosecutor.
She is one of several progressive prosecutors elected in recent years with a focus on creating more fairness in the criminal justice system.
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“While it may be intuitive that a 14-year-old has no legitimate purpose, it doesn’t actually mean that they’re going to harm someone. We don’t know that yet,” said Rep. Tony Lovasco
Exactly! How will we know a 14-year-old won’t keep a bunch of people unless we give them the opportunity.
Check notes: Oh shit 14 yr olds shoot people too.
You want to get things like this passed, you get a big enough group to just walk around down town in the rich area open carrying and mean mugging everyone.
Make the upper class uncomfortable. You’ll get that passes in no time.
