Missouri's Republican led House of Representatives has decided
to vote against banning literal minors, children from openly
carrying firearms on public land without adult supervision.
Now, only one Republican voted in favor of the regulation.
And the proposal was actually brought forth by a Republican lawmaker, but
it's the lone Republican lawmaker who wanted to do the right thing.
Now, Democratic Representative 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.
Now, if you think that that is an exaggeration, which to be quite
honest with you, I initially thought it was, you'd be mistaken.
I would like to show you just a screenshot of something that occurred recently.
This is graphic for those are teenagers, since they're minors,
of course their faces are blurred out, but
they're walking around on public streets carrying weapons in this still frame,
you'll see one of them pointing a gun at someone's window.
And, of course, the resident in that home was terrified.
But apparently the police can't do anything because in the great state
of Missouri there are no age restrictions in regard to open carry of firearms.
And so the lawmaker says, Democratic Representative Donna Baringer said,
now they have been emboldened,
and they are walking around with them until they actually brandish them, and
brandish them with intent, our police officers hands are handcuffed.
>> Okay, so this is America now.
So, first of all, it applies to all of Missouri, so
suburban parts rural parts, urban parts, it doesn't matter.
If you're a kid, you can just grab a weapon, walk around, and that's normal.
The rest of the world just look because you get gas lit all the time by our
politicians and our media that make it seem like it's normal, it's not normal.
The rest of the world thinks we're nuts.
Firstly, don't let anybody walk around with guns because it's super dangerous.
Guns kill people, right?
But saying about kids, 14-year-olds, have you ever met a 14-year-old,
no impulse control at all?
I mean,14-year-old boys will get into a fight over the silliest things at
a moment's notice, and we'll go nuclear with whatever they have, right?
And if they're [LAUGH] carrying around weapons like this, look,
we as a nation, we have 100% lost our minds.
And by the way, to be fair to us, actually,
the great majority of us don't want it at all.
The federal background checks poll, anywhere between 88 to 97%,
as an example, the assault weapons bans is actually very popular.
Two thirds of the country want to ban assault weapons, okay?
But we have a lunatic free right wingers that are both corrupt and
take money from weapons manufacturers and have lost their minds and belong in mental
asylums who are, yeah, we'll give assault weapon to a 14-year-old and have
them walk around, see if we can agitate them [LAUGH] and they think that's normal.
No, you belong in an asylum.
And by the way passed easily, right?
The vote was overwhelming.
Let the 14-year-olds walk around, hopefully,
they'll kill a whole bunch of people.
It'll be great.
Idiots in Missouri.
Total morons.
Every Republican that voted for that is a monster.
>> Who voted against it.
>> Voted against it, yes.
>> Because their proposal was to ban minors from open carry in the state of
Missouri.
And I do want to give the one Republican who proposed this and
voted in favor of it some credit.
It's a state representative.
Again, a Republican Lane Roberts.
He's a former Joplin Missouri Police chief and state public safety director.
And he's, yo, this is not a good idea.
Now, I also wanna read a quote from another Republican lawmaker who does
not deserve credit and should be shamed at the idiotic statement he made.
So this is Missouri State Representative Tony La Vasco, who says, well,
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.
Generally speaking,
we don't charge people with crimes because we think they're going to hurt someone.
Okay, great, so
why do we have any regulations as it pertains to minors, right?
Minors as young as ten should be able to get behind the wheel.
We don't know that they're gonna cause a car accident.
We don't know that they're gonna drive recklessly.
So why have any regulations at all as it pertains to minors?
>> And by the way, on weapons, why stop it at assault weapons?
Why not start hand out a grenades to 14-year-old?
By the way, Republicans in Congress,
there was one lunatic from Florida who did start handing out grenades.
He's, no, they're inert.
They probably won't explode.
And luckily gave it to a fellow.
>> His bringing is inert, okay?
>> I know, exactly. So, look guys,
we're pointing out the one Republican that voted the right way and
I think over 100 voted the wrong way in Missouri because whenever we find
a Republican legislator in the country, that is not insane?
It's like breaking news.
We found one Republican in Missouri that is not a lunatic.
Breaking news.
And by the way, why?
Because he's a former police chief, he's, are you serious?
And you know, who's complaining about this rule?
The cops. Cops are, you're gonna send us out there
with heavily armed teenagers that can just roam around, are you guys nuts?
Is this helping the cops?
Does this look like you're in favor of the thin blue line?
I don't know anything that endangers cops more than this.
How are you going to disarm these kids, okay?
And by the way, of course, they had to sprinkle in racism, right?
Yeah, we should be able to carry guns around in white areas and stuff.
But for the black areas, they wanted to have an extra prosecutor.
So they're, now remember we're supposed to let all the white folks go, okay?
But for the black areas, if you see him, you know what to do, extra prosecutor.
Jesus Christ.
>> We're just so irresponsible with guns in this country, right?
You can be a perfectly reasonable person, like me, who sees the right to bear arms
as an important constitutional right, that should be regulated.
Children should not be running around town with weapons,
with guns, with tools that are meant to kill.
It just doesn't make any sense.