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In reply to the discussion: Missouri Republican Wants To Make It A Felony For His Fellow Lawmakers To Propose Gun Laws [View all]Tommy_Carcetti
(43,177 posts)Essentially extort and threaten anyone who dare crosses their agenda.
Here in Florida, we have a walking piece of excrement named Marion Hammer, one of the NRA's chief lobbyists. She personally wrote many gun laws herself. One such law was a prohibition against doctors asking a patient whether they had a guns in their house. Hammer's original draft made it a felony for a doctor to ask such a question. Because obviously there's no good reason why a doctor should ask a patient whether there are guns in the home, other than to just be a nosy busy body. (Cough cough Nancy Lanza cough cough)
Thankfully the felony provision was ultimately removed from the final version and the entire law has now been put on hold thanks to a smart judge, but it's quite common to see the NRA attempt to shame and threaten legislators who don't see things their way.