The Ridiculousness Of Missouri

Missouri’s nickname is ‘The Show Me State’ but I think, after hearing these two stories, they should change it to ‘Show Them The Door State’ because they have a chamber full of legislative morons out there.

First up: State representative Mike Leara, a Republican of course, because, well, most of the gun nuts are of the GOP persuasion, has come up with a novel way to fight for gun rights. He has proposed a bill that would make it a felony, a crime, mind you, to propose any legislation that would restrict or limit gun rights. It would, in fact, become against the law to propose a law about guns in Missouri.

Like I said, ‘Show Them The Door.’

Now, Leara is not completely stupid; he has said that he knows his bill doesn’t have any more chance of passing than he does in becoming a member of MensaLite™, but he says, ahem, “I filed HB 633 as a matter of principle and as a statement in defense of the Second Amendment rights of all Missourians. I have no illusions about the bill making it through the legislative process, but I want it to be clear that the Missouri House will stand in defense of the people’s Constitutional right to keep and bear arms.”

Methinks Leara needs to reread the Second Amendment and, please, ‘Show Me’ the part about assault weapons being arms.

Still, while Leara seems to be a moron of near epic proportions, he comes up short in the idiocy department when compared to Missouri state representative Eric Burlison, a, you guessed it, Republican, who posted a video to YouTube in which literal gunshots are taken at House Bill 545, a proposed ban on assault weapons and large capacity magazines.

Yeah, he actually opened fire on the bill, which sort of proves the point of any type of gun control when asshats like Burlison will take legislation outside and fill it full of lead, while saying, “It’s a great bill. It’s great target practice.”

Seriously, Missouri, these are the people you elected to office. These are the people wasting your time and your tax dollars. Show Me how you can change this up by voting these two morons out of office. Gun control, gun rights, is a serious discussion and yet these two idiots have turned it into Circus Sideshow Theatrics. Is that what you elected?

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