Sunday, April 20, 2014

Missouri Republicans consider bill that would deny state jobs to federal agents who enforced gun laws. Because you know that makes sense.

Courtesy of Raw Story:  

Missouri Republicans are considering a bill that would bar federal law enforcement officials from state jobs if they ever enforced federal gun laws that the legislators consider ‘unconstitutional.’ 

According to the Missourian, GOP legislators would like to include a provision, in the so-called ‘Second Amendment Preservation Act,’ barring federal employees who enforce, or aid in a potential enforcement of certain gun-control laws in the course of their careers, from any Missouri state or local law enforcement jobs in the future.

So to be clear these idiots want to pass a law which denies future employment to a law enforcement official for doing his job. In short, if you do this job now, you cannot have this job later.

Pretty sure that is illegal for a number of reasons.

But get this, it's a compromise:

The latest provision is seen as a compromise by the Republican lawmakers from an earlier version that would have called for possible jail time or allowing civil damages stemming from lawsuits filed by Missourians who think an agent infringed upon their gun rights. 

The most recent version has been endorsed by the Senate General Laws Committee and would leave the civil penalties on the table in addition to the employment ban. 

The bill is likely to make the chamber floor for a vote. 

As currently written, Missourians would be able sue if they think a law enforcement officer was employed after being involved in the implementation of a federal gun law. If the lawsuit is successful, the agent would be fired and the state or municipality would be required to pay the resident’s court costs. 

“What we hope it accomplishes is for there to be a healthy degree of pause before anybody takes an action that could be unconstitutional,” said the bill’s sponsor, Sen. Brian Nieves, (R).

This of course is only in anticipation of a federal gun law being passed, which as of right now seems unlikely.  However if such a law were to pass THIS law would then be used to essentially threaten a federal agent into refusing to comply, by using the denial of future employment as a gun to their head.

That is pretty damn shocking.

I am still incredibly confused by this love affair that Americans have with firearms.

How in the hell did THAT amendment become the most important amendment in the Constitution?

I hear people talking about a "gun culture" and it makes me think of people who dress up like furries or breed and sell miniature horses or something. What exactly defines a "gun culture?"

I, of course, was born and raised in Alaska, where guns are ubiquitous. Yet when I was growing up they were seen as a tool for hunting, or a necessary purchase for self defense, and NOT so much a fetish, as they often are today.

I mean who lives their lives surrounded by firearms, talking about firearms, and fighting to keep their firearms, unless they are a collector of firearms, or a nut case?

And taking it to the extreme of potentially punishing law enforcement, is so completely out in left field, that I think it almost qualifies as a form of mass hysteria.

Mass hysteria over guns.

Yeah, nothing frightening about THAT!

9 comments:

  1. Fortunately the Gov. of Mo. is a Democrat with a sound mind.
    Missouri is filled with all sorts of different people and beliefs and we manage to attack many social issues....Winter coats for kids, trying to feed as many kids as possible, addressing homelessness...and other things I just cannot think of right now.

    There are always a few looney tunes in government and Mo. has its share but in the end things work themselves out. I think the rural dudes outnumber the urban dudes.....I say just enforce the laws on the books. Hand this guy a crying towel.

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    1. Anonymous12:33 PM

      Sorry. He doesn't have a sound mind.

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  2. I was certainly raised in a gun culture (hunters), but it wasn’t a big deal then. Being a good hunter was admired, but so was being a good fisherman, a good horseman, a successful farmer, or the honest guy down at the feed store. And there were good factory jobs.

    I can’t say life was easy; it wasn’t, but doing a reasonable amount of work would keep your head above water. Marginal people overbred just around the time that the decent jobs disappeared (a behavior I’ve ridiculed for years). The losers are waving their guns around because it’s their last bastion of personal pride. In many cases, their wives are supporting them. And politicians need those votes.

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  3. hedgewytch10:13 AM

    “What we hope it accomplishes is for there to be a healthy degree of pause before anybody takes an action that could be unconstitutional,” said the bill’s sponsor, Sen. Brian Nieves, (R).

    Such hypocrisy. Such projection. Such traitorous behavior.
    I wish it were possible for the Federal Government, upon this law's passage, to order all Federal employees to immediately stop using all State business's and services. To stop all MO state civilians from entering or using federal facilities.

    Can you imagine the panic? The back-peddling? The "it was just a joke and we didn't mean it" talk? These people are just too stupid to walk across the street much less hold public office. I swear the water down there is contaminated with dumb.

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  4. O/T...Baldy posted one of her garbled screeches about Easter on her Fakebook page and then it looks like she grabbed one of the Trig's walking around and forced him at "Peep" point to take a picture with her wearing an outfit from the Mel Torme Collection of velor sweatsuits line! LOL!!

    Poor Trig 8.2...look at the GRIP ole ugly granny has on his poor little hand! Is that the hand Trig slaps the taste out of her "mouf" with? LOL!!

    Picture 1....https://fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-frc3/t1.0-9/10275956_10152371054973588_6855505472321337679_n.jpg

    Picture 2...https://scontent-a-sjc.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn2/t1.0-9/10171056_10152371054968588_7699737824123504652_n.jpg

    She also mention Track's birthday but didn't post a picture of her smooching him...not enough drugs or money for Trackster to go that route I guess! LOL!!!

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    1. Is that a birthday pic? I see school buses in the background and he's wearing a backpack, like he's going to school. Looks more like a first day of school pic.

      No glasses. Don't see a hearing aid in the left ear. Guess we'll never get a good shot of the right one to compare with the baby shots. The ears never change, you know, and are often used for identification.

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  5. I am so grateful to live in California.

    Yes, we have that ass Darrell Issa. But still.....

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  6. Anita Winecooler4:14 PM

    “What we hope it accomplishes is for there to be a healthy degree of pause before anybody takes an action that could be unconstitutional,” said the bill’s sponsor, Sen. Brian Nieves, (R).

    The "Pause before you play" option sounds so common sensey, yet Sen Brian Nieves (R) would expect a healthy dose of "Hurry the fuck up" should a gun "accidentally" shoot an innocent relative. Yeah, let's try it in Missouri and see how it plays out. What could possibly go wrong?
    Since this obsession with one amendment over all others has hindered people from pursuing health, happiness and happiness, why have a constitution at all? Laws should just be "suggestions".

    I thought my state was wacked out of it's mind, but this is beyond the pale.

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  7. Anonymous6:53 PM

    Why is it just the 2nd amendment? Why is it OK with these people to enforce unconstitutional laws that violate the 1st amendment or the 4th, 5th, 7th or 8th? They have a chance to appear to be sensible patriots, but instead want to show off their gun-nut bona fides.

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