This is ridiculous. What are you going to do to PROTECT OR CHILDREN? This will do absolutely nothing to prevent anything. This would be like asking all parents to tell the schools what type of prescription drugs you have in your home to stop drug use in our schools.

“Responsible gun owners have nothing to fear from my legislation" - except for being made a pariah by the school board.
Gun violence and crime in general are at historic lows, and she is joining in with the knee-jerk fear mongering after a national tragedy.

I have no problems with punishment of those who do not properly secure their weapons, but exactly what purpose does it serve to impose on parents to disclose what types of property the legally keep in their homes?

Silly Bill-y

Thank you, Sen. Chappelle-Nadal. The absolutist, near-delusional position expressed by Sen. Brian Nieves in his blog post needs a vocal counterweight in Jeff. City. It is interesting to note that the NRA and gun-lovers everywhere love to talk about how we should just enforce our existing gun laws. But the don't talk about how we got those laws. That's because the answer is that each time it was over massive NRA and gun lover resistance, and then only after terrible national tragedies. Sadly, the daily street murders in our cities do not count as such a national tragedy and do not or have not adequately motivated needed gun law reforms. Aside from the school-notification part, can anyone legitimately object to this proposal? We hear all this talk about "responsible gun owners." This just ensures they really are responsible. Frankly, it boggles my mind that we do not have these laws already, with the exception of the school-notification provision. As to that provision, it may be useful in helping school security identify students who might be more likely to come to school armed. As to the Second Amendment, making reasonable proposals such as this and then having them be rejected will just show the extremism we are dealing with. In no way would this proposal be viewed by the Supreme Court as infringing Second Amendment rights. Read DC v. Heller--the Court leaves ample room for reasonable regulation, including returning to the concealed-carry ban, should we so wish.

George and Senator Nidel, Give me a break! The idiocy you both espouse would "make maggot heave" as my old mother use to say. What will the school do, suspend me for 10 days if I own a gun???

In case of emergency call 9-1-........ Let's focus on mental health issues...progress can be made without making our gun laws more unworkable. And to call one political wag to another near delusional is NOT the beginning of a civil discourse. Our school system can hardly keep accreditation without lowering standards and political slight of hand...please do not distract them even more!!

Thankfully we still have a 5th Amendment right to privacy.

Remove the school notification crap entirely from this bill, and it has my full support.

I'm not a fan of guns, but this bill appears to represent a gross overreach by a part of the government that has no business knowing what I legally keep in my home. What other legal possessions would the senator like for us to report? Perhaps the contents of our liquor cabinet, or what I feed my kids for dinner? This bill deserves to go nowhere. I can't believe I'm saying this, but for once, I'm confident that the Republican majority will protect my rights from this woman.

why don't we take care of the PEOPLE who are causing the problems instead of attacking lawabbiding citizens? Since the government cannot legally have a list of gun owners let's get the schools to do it for them. Did you know that doctors can ask if you are a gun owner? If you say yes there is a red flag placed in your file. If any medical professional needs to ask this it would be a physcolgist not an md Just one more way to take awaY OUR FREEDOMS

I'm glad she doesn't represent my district! I'd be embarrassed - this is a ridiculous idea that doesn't accomplish a thing!

Unbelievable. How this woman keeps getting elected is baffling.

I am a U City resident, and while my kids don't attend the U City schools, they do attend school in U City. I have attended the school board meetings recently. If left up to that bunch of folks, this would already be law. Thankfully, it isn't. The state House and Senate are overwhelmingly Republican, and unlikely to pass anything that Ms. Chappale-Nadal has submitted regarding restrictions on our second amendment protected, God-given RIGHTS. Screw her and her ilk if they want to require governmental notification by citizenry of our firearms. (Open secret - I have lots of guns... She can come try and get 'em...) Though I make no secret of my ownership, for goodness' sake, I have a 4' X 8' Gadsden flag on the side of my house overlooking North & South Rd., and my proclivities are well known to the neighborhood. Government notification is unconstitutional, unnecessary, and will do NOTHING to protect ANYONE except (a) criminals, by making their victims have a false sense of security, and (b) the government, for if and (God-forbid) when they become tyrannical, having a registry of the firearms owned by the law-abiding...

Jonathan, don't be baffled. She keeps getting elected because the majority of the sheeple in U City and the area are the same morons who vote in Lacey Clay for decades (father or son- same difference...) They are the same morons who vote for Obama. What do you expect?

Please remember to keep the comments on topic and to refrain from personal attacks.

This bill provides a rare moment where normal people & responsible gun owners alike, can agree with the most right-wing fearmongering gun nut losers.

The bill is moronic.

This bill has no chance of passing and everybody knows it. It's more likely that the other extreme would pass -Missouri HB 170 -which would make criminals of local state or federal law enforcement officials who tried to enforce federal gun control initiatives, whether executive orders or passed by Congress. (where's the Patch coverage of that crazy bill??)

The only rationale for Chappelle-Nadal's overreaching unviable bill is publicity stunt. If she was serious about curbing gun violence - her bill would be reasonable, Constitutional, and have co-sponsor of a moderate republican (if such a creature exists in Missouri)....Granted, it still wouldn't pass in MO, but such a bill then would be the "vocal counterweight' to the gun extremist politicians owned by the NRA.

The Missouri legislature - with birther-speaker Tim Jones, and secessionist Brian Nieves and this lady- what a joke they are. The best we can hope for is that we have enough morons on each side to balance each other out

Oh, Matthew, of course, that explains it. You mean black people are "sheeple" and "morons," right?

No, George, you racist pinhead. I mean morons that vote for Lacey Clay are sheep, as are many (most?) Obama voters. If many of them in our neighborhood are black, so be it. The black community is such a uniform voting block, particularly when the candidate is black, that one may conclude that race plays a huge part of their decision-making calculus. I include, though, all Democratic Party voters who are enamored with scum like Lacey Clay, and misguided (though quite earnest and nice) people like Maria. I've met her several times and find her very pleasant, and very dedicated, and very misguided, though I occasionally agree with her on certain local topics.

It's sad that everything with certain people (you are clearly one) boils down to screaming "racist" or pointing out that you believe I [clearly and only] refer to blacks. I could care less what color someone is. I care how they vote, particularly when their vote costs me money, freedom, or otherwise.

Hi George, yes I do report the items you mention (cars, property), but not to the school district. If I owned a gun legally, the state would know about it and it would be registered. There is no need for the school district to have this information. What would they possibly do with it? Send someone out to make sure I'm storing it properly? Why saddle the school district with enforcement of gun laws? The senator's bill has nothing to with educating children, which is the school district's primary purpose.

Thanks for clarifying, Lincoln. We do not know the intent of the school proposal or who may support it and why. But, sadly, a secondary purpose of the school district is keeping the kids safe from each other and outsiders. That should be quite clear following Newtown. We would rightfully be quite upset if after this tragedy our school board members and legislators were ignoring the issue of school security because it has "nothing to with educating children." No doubt they would be called "morons," idiots," "scum," "pinheads," and worse....

George, George, George!
I don't see anywhere in my short comment where I called you, or the Senator, a name. I said the idiocy of the proffered idea is enough to make me sick to my stomach that someone thinks this is a way to stop criminals from committing crimes.
I have gone through background checks (mandated by the Federal Gov't) and firearms training (mandated by me) to be a responsible gun owner and I see no reason for the school to know whom owns a gun. They are not doing such a good job of teaching or protecting our kids so far.
This idea is just another back door way to gun control, along with making doctors ask if we own guns.
Committing Murder has been outlawed since biblical times, see "Thou Shalt Not Murder" in the Ten Commandments, and yet it is still going on.
I question why the Senator does not mention the shooting and killing of young black gang members by other young black gang members or get involved with trying to save them. Are they not important to the good Senator?
If you stand near the Cabanne Neighborhood on a quiet night you can hear the gun fire! It isn't me and my law abiding friends whom are doing the shooting!!!

I just saw this newsletter from Senator Chappelle-Nadal: http://www.senate.mo.gov/media/13info/Chappelle-Nadal/columns/012413-FULL.html#sb124 It links a video interview of her. How about this thought process: Can agree guns should be properly secured, especially those owned by parents with school-age children in the home? Should there be legal consequences for the parent if the parent fails to do so (as perhaps Nancy Lanza did) and as a result the gun is brought to school and/or used in a crime of violence? If so, then should officials (maybe not the schools, but the police) have information (the fact of parental gun ownership) that could quickly raise the possibility, for investigation, that the gun used belonged to the parent and was improperly stored?

George, you are incorrect that we are one of the ones with the highest murder rate. First of all, based upon the number of guns owned in this country, and using the gun grabbers emotional argument, there should be few if anyone alive to even read our posts on this web site. Still, give me a little time and I will find my list of the murder rates of the countries that have totally banned firearms (just to warn you, they are all much higher than the US murder rate). And yes, make no mistake, I am calling the idea idiotic!!!
You are correct, I mispoke about it being back door to gun control. I should have said backdoor to gun confiscation! Gun Control implies we subjects might be allowed to own something to defend home and country.

Schools have a responsibility to the kids. This means they should be paying attention to the kids who are having these kinds of problems in school that either make them a target of violence by other kids or make them bullys to target other children. This would entail getting those kids help in the form of COUNSELING!! We need to teach kids conflict resolution along with many adults. We need to focus on how to deal with our problems without violence or guns. This is how we help our children.

As to gun ownership rates, I am correct. "The United States owns more guns per resident, at about 0.89, than any other nation in the world. The U.S. is almost half again the next two highest nations, Serbia and Yemen at about 0.55 and triple major European countries like France and Germany." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_of_guns_per_capita_by_country That we do not have the highest murder rate supports the fact that many or most guns are in the hands of "responsible gun owners"; that we have so much higher homicide rates than other countries we like to consider "civilized" should make us all consider whether we could do better...

Hard to imagine how such a "common-sense response" to gun violence is getting so much flak. Imagine.

Hey, DPB, I think George was referring to me - I did call him names. Well-warranted I think, since his first comment to me assumed that my disparagement of supporters of Nadal & Obama was necessarily because they are black - supporters and the politicians both I presume - in either case he assumed immediately that I dislike them because of their race rather than their pinheaded and idiotic policy. In other words, he immediately called me a racist, so I simply turned it around.

This whole argument is silly, though. George is never convince us and vice-versa. Maria's bill is DOA since there is an overwhelming GOP majority in both houses and she is in the extreme minority - even including some Dems - as someone who seeks _any_ new gun laws of _any_ kind in this state.

Matthew, you are correct! It's like wrestling with a pig, you are not going to win and the pig loves it! I appreciate George's attempt to compare apples to oranges, though. Typical liberal logic! It does not matter to him that countries, whether 3rd world or not, which have banned guns have extremely high murder rates. It does not matter to him that Chicago, New York, Detroit, and other cities that have very restrictive gun laws have the highest rates of murder. Let's just take away legally owned property from people whom have never done anything wrong and feel good about ourselves! In effect, let's convict first and prove innocence later. I seem to remember British Law has that provision, few rights and guilty until proven innocent.

And Billy Frank, I am not sure I understand where you are coming from, but I don't think it is a good place. Sure, we can entertain the idea the moon is made of cheese, but why would you want to? Seems to me the good senator and others would better serve their time in helping put violent criminals behind bars, work to get families back together (mothers and fathers raising children), establish community cohesiveness, and put God back to the forefront. I do not disrespect anyone because of the race, creed, sexual orientation, etc.,but I do have issues with insanity! (doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result)

...and DPB, I am coming from a place where the Senator seems to think it wise to collect names of parents with guns. After some thought, it might not be a bad idea. Anyone who would disclose gun ownership to a school district (or physician)...lacks good judgement and should have their weapons confiscated. My comment about providing better mental health capacities in our schools doesn't seem too far fetched...it might help turn about our culture of violence.