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!