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Yes, Missouri has a couple of large cities that hold back the rest of the state, and some of the more influential politicians right now are from the urban cancers centers. But let's not exaggerate. Missouri's legislature is heavily Republican in both chambers, and we do manage to elect Republicans to state-wide offices on a fairly regular basis; especially in last year's election. We've been an open carry state since - well, I think since forever, and are now a constitutional carry state. We might manage to be a right-to-work state, depending on whether the petition thingy can block that from happening. We're not exactly Illinois.
fistful, that's just about exactly the way Colorado was fifteen-twenty years ago. Colorado is now pretty much a blue state where in general the elected officials think their election is a license to pull all kinds of do-goody and it's-for-the-children BS... even at the local level.
Some like to
think we're still purple, but they're just kidding themselves.
So don't go hollering "fail" as if the dingbats are isolated to urban areas and you've got them properly contained. There has been a concerted effort to flood the local governments and State Houses with
socialist "progressive"-thinking politically-correct individuals since Colorado became a "targeted" State.
And they are succeeding, bit by bit, block by block, cemetery plot by cemetery plot, gimme-gimme voter by gimme-gimme voter.
Was
wmenorr67 exaggerating the danger for Missouri? No, and I think your term "cancerous" is more apt. The danger cannot be exaggerated. Take it from someone from Colorado. Mere gun rights (and more recently, knife rights here) are not the only measure of freedom. They're thrown down as bones to distract the dogs of freedom.
Rather, the inverse of the number of traffic lights per square mile is a a much better measure.
Terry, 230RN
