The right to bear arms not bare arms

In 2021, Missouri’s Senate created the ‘Second Amendment Preservation Act’, despite having high levels of violent crime. 

This year Missouri’s House of Representatives made a new change, it created a new dress code, one that requires women to wear long-sleeves in order to speak on the house floor. 

Women hold less than one third of the seats in Missouri’s house. 

The new dress code has peaked my interest on the basis that not only is seemingly sexist but that it seems like a waste of time.  

I have to day, I could not care less what our law makers and politicians wear. For all I care they could be standing there in bathing suits as long as they are doing their jobs. 

Spending time on a dress code change is such an aggressive waste of time, that I can not even imagine why someone felt like this was even important. 

Dressing like a professional does not make you good at your job. Dress codes are there simply to make you look good but in today’s age, most of us don’t. 

I will not pass judgment on what you wear, but I will based on weather or not you are capable of doing your job. 

Dress codes are old news, money can buy you the fanciest clothes but they can’t make you competent.  

Some of the smartest people I have met dress in second hand clothes. Imagine if we treated everyone based on how they dress, oh wait. 

Okay so they want everyone to dress professionally but why does this mean that in order to be professional women need to cover their arms. 

The idea that professional dress has one definition across all professions does not make sense. For some jeans and a tee-shirt is their work guidelines for others it could a button-down shirt. 

So why when speaking on the house floor or standing in a state government building should you have to conform to a new standard. 

It wont make you smarter and it won’t help you win an argument.

I can’t fathom why it would be a good idea to spend time discussing on wether or not it is appropriate for women to show their arms over actual issues. 

Missouri ranks in the top ten for states with the most violent crime and is in the bottom half for education. 

Those facts alone should be enough to show that there are better things for law makers to focus on then a dress code. 

Why have we made it the expectation that as long as you look the part, you are doing your job.

So why should we care what they do in Missouri anyway? As we have seen in the past, states tend to follow after other states that share similar politics.

Here in Nebraska or most of its surrounding states, we follow similar political issues. My concern is that if one state makes this okay, then other red states may follow. 

At the end of the day, this feels like a waste of lawamker time. 

Even if the dress codes chanes were not somewhat sexist, a dress code change is a waste of time. 

Our lawmakerks will not be better or worst based on what they wear. 

Even if they are wearing bathing suits we should have high expectations for our politcians.