by Pa Rock
Citizen Journalist
If it doesn't have a vagina or a trigger, chances are it won't be of much concern to the Missouri legislature. The representatives and senators who occasionally meet in Jefferson City to party with lobbyists and tell the rest of us how to live our pathetic lives, are a bunch of starchy, white Republicans - primarily men - who see their service in government as being to carry out God's mandate to sell guns and stop abortions.
Rep. Andrew McDaniel fits right into that mold, and being a former county deputy, the legislator seems to have a particular interest in promoting gun ownership. McDaniel, a Republican (of course), is from the unincorporated community of Deering in Missouri's boot heel. He serves on the House Crime Prevention and Public Safety Committee, the Special Committee on Homeland Security, and the Utilities Committee.
During the current legislative session Rep. McDaniel has introduced two interesting pieces of legislation. One, House Bill 1052, also known as the "McDaniel Second Amendment Act," requires every resident of Missouri over twenty-one to own a handgun. A tax credit would offset the purchase price for the first purchasers to rush forward and claim the credit, but it would not be enough to cover everyone.
So we would all have the "freedom" of owning a handgun, whether we wanted to own one or not.
As outrageous as the "McDaniel Second Amendment Act" is, it still pales in comparison to his other piece of proposed legislation. House Bill 1108, also known as the"McDaniel Militia Act," would offset the cost of an AR-15 to everyone between the ages of 18 and 35 who is eligible to own a weapon - and it would make owning an AR-15 mandatory for that same group of individuals!
Government making people do things - how's that for promoting individual freedoms! Or how about government forcing people to buy from certain companies? Or government forcing individuals to create dangerous situations within the sanctity of their own homes?
Representative McDaniel has acknowledged that his bills are not likely to become law, and, indeed, neither has been scheduled for committee review, but he does want to inspire discussion.
That - and to apparently get his name out into certain circles
McDaniel, who just turned thirty-five himself and would not be eligible for the reimbursement for an AR-15 if his bill did become law, is in his fifth year of service in the Missouri Legislature, an institution that mercifully has a ten-year limit of service in each chamber. Maybe he's bucking for a job as an NRA lobbyist, or posturing for election to a different position.
Rep. McDaniel must be cranking out these bills to serve himself, because he certainly is not using them to serve the people of Missouri!
Citizen Journalist
If it doesn't have a vagina or a trigger, chances are it won't be of much concern to the Missouri legislature. The representatives and senators who occasionally meet in Jefferson City to party with lobbyists and tell the rest of us how to live our pathetic lives, are a bunch of starchy, white Republicans - primarily men - who see their service in government as being to carry out God's mandate to sell guns and stop abortions.
Rep. Andrew McDaniel fits right into that mold, and being a former county deputy, the legislator seems to have a particular interest in promoting gun ownership. McDaniel, a Republican (of course), is from the unincorporated community of Deering in Missouri's boot heel. He serves on the House Crime Prevention and Public Safety Committee, the Special Committee on Homeland Security, and the Utilities Committee.
During the current legislative session Rep. McDaniel has introduced two interesting pieces of legislation. One, House Bill 1052, also known as the "McDaniel Second Amendment Act," requires every resident of Missouri over twenty-one to own a handgun. A tax credit would offset the purchase price for the first purchasers to rush forward and claim the credit, but it would not be enough to cover everyone.
So we would all have the "freedom" of owning a handgun, whether we wanted to own one or not.
As outrageous as the "McDaniel Second Amendment Act" is, it still pales in comparison to his other piece of proposed legislation. House Bill 1108, also known as the"McDaniel Militia Act," would offset the cost of an AR-15 to everyone between the ages of 18 and 35 who is eligible to own a weapon - and it would make owning an AR-15 mandatory for that same group of individuals!
Government making people do things - how's that for promoting individual freedoms! Or how about government forcing people to buy from certain companies? Or government forcing individuals to create dangerous situations within the sanctity of their own homes?
Representative McDaniel has acknowledged that his bills are not likely to become law, and, indeed, neither has been scheduled for committee review, but he does want to inspire discussion.
That - and to apparently get his name out into certain circles
McDaniel, who just turned thirty-five himself and would not be eligible for the reimbursement for an AR-15 if his bill did become law, is in his fifth year of service in the Missouri Legislature, an institution that mercifully has a ten-year limit of service in each chamber. Maybe he's bucking for a job as an NRA lobbyist, or posturing for election to a different position.
Rep. McDaniel must be cranking out these bills to serve himself, because he certainly is not using them to serve the people of Missouri!
1 comment:
In the exchange of ideas more speech is better than less speech. Likewise, in the exchange of gunfire fewer guns is better than more guns. The needless slaughter of innocent Americans will only rise when more guns are added. Reason dictates that all inherently dangerous things must be closely regulated. McDaniel, on the other hand, would flood the state with firearms.
Missouri would be better served by flooding it with the best public schools money can buy, with the minimum wage being a living wage, with its roads, bridges, dams and levies being maintained in tip top condition, with the expansion of Medicaid, and with an influx of high paying jobs in the manufacturing sector employing unionized workers.
More guns will not bring peace. More guns will not bring prosperity. More guns will not make Missouri an attractive place to live. All this goes to prove that you can demonstrate facts and science to many citizens of the Show Me State but you cannot make those persons open their eyes and look at the evidence.
Missouri might as well be called the Ostrich State; a fine place in which to bury one's head in the sand.
Post a Comment