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MONDAY, APRIL 17. The Missouri House passes a new concealed carry law that cracks down on kids with guns. Just kidding! The bill they actually passed today, HB 282, makes it easier to carry guns on buses and in churches. Oh, and it would lower the age of concealed-carry eligibility from 19 to 18 — because what we need in this state is more teens packing heat Unbelievably, the bill passes 102 to 45. Now we’ll see if the Senate is on board for this nonsense. Meanwhile, in St. Louis, the Circuit Attorney’s Office no-shows a murder trial, and Judge Scott Millikan wants to know why Kim Gardner isn’t in contempt of court. He’d best get in line.

TUESDAY, APRIL 18. Dashing the hopes of good liberals across the country, Dominion Voting Systems decides to cash in for its private equity stakeholders instead of drilling down further on Fox News for the sake of democracy — forging a $787 million settlement with Rupert Murdoch & Co. Anyone who’s shocked by that decision was probably also convinced Robert Mueller and the FBI would save the nation from Donald Trump. LOL. Meanwhile, Kim Gardner is in court for the state AG’s quo warranto case seeking to remove her from office. For all the back-and-forth, the most memorable moment came from a lawyer representing a group that’s not actually party to the case: soft-spoken former appeals court justice Booker Shaw, who was hired to speak for the judges in