Gun Amendment on Missouri Ballot Draws Support, Fire

“Amendment 5 would declare the right to keep and bear arms 'unalienable' and subject to laws restricting gun rights to 'strict scrutiny.'” Recognition of the right of self-defense scares the St. Louis police chief, who “fears prosecutors would be less likely to take a case involving criminal gun possession and juries would be less likely to convict.” This would make him seem indifferent to the fate the mom in the next article might have suffered had her son not used a gun to defend her.