A recent proposal in the Missouri Senate would allow lawmakers to challenge each other to a duel to settle their differences.
"If a senator's honor is impugned by another senator to the point that it is beyond repair and in order for the offended senator to gain satisfaction, such senator may rectify the perceived insult to the senator's honor by challenging the offending senator to a duel," the proposal states.
Republican lawmakers in the state have been involved in a bitter dispute that has devolved and halted most legislative action. The Freedom Caucus has been holding up routine work, including an eight-hour filibuster blocking over two dozen appointments by Governor Mike Parson, because they are upset the Senate is moving too slow to change how voters can amend the state's constitution.
Members of the Freedom Caucus want to make that process more difficult because they are worried about an amendment before the voters this fall that would overturn the state's abortion ban.
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