[Jeff White]

Today's Post Dispatch has an online poll on the issue. Running close right now.

The poll is on the right, just below a blurb on Columnists.
http://www.stltoday.com/news

Now that the Supreme Court has heard the case, do you think Missouri should allow concealed weapons?

57%
YES -- The constitutional argument is bogus, and the Legislature passed it

43%
NO -- Despite what lawmakers did, the constitution clearly bans them

Polls are unscientific and for entertainment purposes only.

[mrapathy2000]

NO -- Despite what lawmakers did, the constitution clearly bans them

Missouri Constitution-Bill Of Rights (http://www.moga.state.mo.us/const/A01023.HTM)
Missouri Constitution-Article 1 Bill of Rights

Right to keep and bear arms--exception.
Section 23. That the right of every citizen to keep and bear arms in defense of his home, person and property, or when lawfully summoned in aid of the civil power, shall not be questioned; but this shall not justify the wearing of concealed weapons.
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]

Justify \Jus"ti*fy\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Justified; p. pr. &
vb. n. Justifying.] [F. justifier, L. justificare; justus
just + -ficare (in comp.) to make. See Just, a., and
-fy.]
1. To prove or show to be just; to vindicate; to maintain or
defend as conformable to law, right, justice, propriety,
or duty.

That to the height of this great argument I may
assert eternal providence, And justify the ways of
God to men. --Milton.

Unless the oppression is so extreme as to justify
revolution, it would not justify the evil of
breaking up a government. --E. Everett.

2. To pronounce free from guilt or blame; to declare or prove
to have done that which is just, right, proper, etc.; to
absolve; to exonerate; to clear.

I can not justify whom the law condemns. --Shak.

3. (Theol.) To treat as if righteous and just; to pardon; to
exculpate; to absolve.

By him all that believe are justified from all
things, from which ye could not be justified by the
law of Moses. --Acts xiii.
39.

4. To prove; to ratify; to confirm. [Obs.] --Shak.

5. (Print.) To make even or true, as lines of type, by proper
spacing; to adjust, as type. See Justification, 4.

Syn: To defend; maintain; vindicate; excuse; exculpate;
absolve; exonerate.


Justify \Jus"ti*fy\, v. i.
1. (Print.) To form an even surface or true line with
something else; to fit exactly.

Justify \Jus"ti*fy\, v. t. (Law)
(a) To show (a person) to have had a sufficient legal reason
for an act that has been made the subject of a change or
accusation.
(b) To qualify (one's self) as a surely by taking oath to the
ownership of sufficient property.

The production of bail in court, who there justify
themselves against the exception of the plaintiff.
--Bouvier's
Law Dict.

they should allow it.

[Greg L]

Now that the Supreme Court has heard the case, do you think Missouri should allow concealed weapons?

65%
YES -- The constitutional argument is bogus, and the Legislature passed it


35%
NO -- Despite what lawmakers did, the constitution clearly bans them

[10mmshooter]

76% YES
24% NO

[Dog]

Now that the Supreme Court has heard the case, do you think Missouri should allow concealed weapons?

76%
YES -- The constitutional argument is bogus, and the Legislature passed it


24%
NO -- Despite what lawmakers did, the constitution clearly bans them


Polls are unscientific and for entertainment purposes only.

[El Tejon]

From Free America, I stab at thee, hoplonphobes of Misery!

Best wishes to our friends in Missouri.:)