As mass shootings grip the country with lethal regularity, Missouri politics is swimming in firearms.
Guns have become such a prominent part of campaigns that they often almost fade into the background. It now takes something like former Gov. Eric Greitens’ recent ad, which shows him holding a shotgun and hunting people, to shock people into taking notice.
Greitens drew widespread condemnation last month over the ad, which invited supporters as part of a fundraising play to receive a permit to hunt RINOs — Republicans in name only. It showed the gun-wielding GOP candidate accompanied by an armed crew in tactical gear storming a house. He then doubled down, releasing a new ad that shows him shooting a military-style long gun and a large explosion in a field.
