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Missouri constitution-obsessors being unconstitutional

What seems to be the far-right's favorite line when debating gun control?

"Read the Constitution!"

Given that, I find it ironically humorous that the Missouri Senate's General Laws Committee, dominated by the Republican Party, last week voted 5-1 in favor of a bill which would make it a crime for federal law enforcement to enforce this country's gun laws. The bill states that the punishment for such "crimes" would be up to a year in prison and a maximum fine of $1,000. It would also call on school personnel to be armed, as well as for lowering the age to obtain a concealed weapons permit from 21 to 19.

Yet the Constitution states that federal laws "shall be the supreme law of the land; and the judges in every state shall be bound thereby, anything in the constitution or laws of any state to the country notwithstanding."

In other words, perhaps the Missouri Senate General Laws Committee should heed their own argument - "Read the Constitution!"

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2014/02/03/3237961/missouri-senate-committee-votes-jail-federal-agents-enforce-gun-laws/
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