{"id":13919,"date":"2012-02-07T11:28:54","date_gmt":"2012-02-07T17:28:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/missouriinsight.com\/site\/?p=70"},"modified":"2012-02-07T11:28:54","modified_gmt":"2012-02-07T17:28:54","slug":"chesterfield-bans-discharging-air-guns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/07\/chesterfield-bans-discharging-air-guns\/","title":{"rendered":"Chesterfield Bans Discharging Air Guns"},"content":{"rendered":"

Because the government cannot legislate safety, it continues to ban things citizens can use unsafely. To whit, the St. Louis suburb of Chesterfield has banned the use of air guns<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Chesterfield City Council voted 6-2 Monday night in favor of a tighter weapons ban after two hours of testimony from the public both for and against the measure.<\/p>\n

Councilmen Bob Nation and Barry Flachsbart voted against the heightened ban, saying it restricted rights provided by the Missouri Constitution.<\/p>\n

Chesterfield’s Mayor Bruce Geiger said the modification of the existing weapons ban was really a public safety issue.<\/p>\n

City Attorney Robert Heggie said the city felt “confident” about its new ordinance, since neighboring cities have much the same bans.<\/p>\n

“It’s a common sense approach,” Heggie said.<\/p>\n

Before the vote, Geiger and Police Chief Ray Johnson showed a piece of wood and a bulletproof vest they shot earlier with guns and darts, to apparently show the dangers, and need for an ordinance that would ban shooting small animals in subdivision yards.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

When a government official says “common sense” it generally means they’re about to ban something and they don’t want to have to build a logical case for it.<\/p>\n

In this case, Chesterfield has banned people from firing air guns and dart guns at varmints on their property because of the threat to public safety danger posed by a pellet gun. Bear in mind that shooting someone with a pellet gun, using a pellet gun to hold up a Quik Trip, or damaging property is against the law: no, that’s beside the point. Common sense<\/em> demands further restrictions. A ban would not pass Congressional muster, but fortunately a common sense<\/em> restriction will.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Because the government cannot legislate safety, it continues to ban things citizens can use unsafely. To whit, the St. Louis suburb of Chesterfield has banned the use of air guns: Chesterfield City Council voted 6-2 Monday night in favor of a tighter weapons ban after two hours of testimony from the public both for and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-st-louis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13919\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}