andrew McDaniel Rep n ra

<div>sez pawn libs 3/19 post NZ</div><div> the wake of the <a href="https://www.npr.org/2019/03/17/704209653/christchurch-mourns-after-shooting">horrific massacre</a>

of Muslim congregants by a white supremacist at a mosque in

Christchurch, New Zealand, one person who got way more attention than he

originally bargained for was Andrew McDaniel, a three-term Republican

state representative for Missouri’s 150th state House district.

<p>McDaniel, a former sheriff’s deputy endorsed by the National Rifle Association, recently introduced the “<a href="https://www.house.mo.gov/bill.aspx?bill=HB1108&year=2019&code=R">McDaniel Militia Act</a>,”

which would require all Missourians between the ages of 18 and 35 to

own AR-15 style semiautomatic rifles, and appropriate $1 million in tax

credits to help people purchase the weapons. In the aftermath of a

horrific act of hate committed in part with legally-obtained

semiautomatic weapons, McDaniel has received intense scrutiny from local

<a href="https://www.kmbc.com/article/missouri-lawmaker-introduces-bill-that-would-residents-to-own-ar-15-and-handguns/26837406">television stations</a> and <a href="https://www.riverfronttimes.com/newsblog/2019/03/15/proposed-missouri-law-would-force-every-adult-resident-to-buy-an-ar-15">newspapers</a>, as well as national news. But <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/03/18/republican-pushed-mandatory-ar-s-after-mosque-shootings-he-says-it-was-ploy-bait-left/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.2319eba29485">according</a> to the <em>Washington Post</em>,

McDaniel says he doesn’t actually believe everyone should be forced to

buy an AR-15 — it was just a political statement to troll people.</p>

<blockquote><p>He wants the tax credits for firearms purchases, but that

part about requiring everyone to own a gun? It was a tactic to try to

bait the left.</p></blockquote>

<blockquote><p>“I wanted the media and the other side to jump on it, to

show that our Second Amendment rights are under attack,” McDaniel said.

“I don’t actually support mandates, hardly ever.”</p></blockquote>

<p>McDaniel added that he did not expect the level of attention he got, because of the timing of the Christchurch mass shooting.

The United States actually used to have laws like this, back when there was no permanent standing army. The <a href="https://www.constitution.org/mil/mil_act_1792.htm">Militia Act of 1792</a>

required all able-bodied men between the ages of 18 and 45 to enlist in

the militia and that “every citizen, so enrolled and notified, shall,

within six months thereafter, provide himself with a good musket or

firelock … or with a good rifle.”</p><p>....
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