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Going to make murder legal. so the bill titled sb-666, would aler missouri current self's defense laws and issue any use of force would be presuming self's defense. they then have to prove that in a court of law, that the person reasonably believed the force was in fact necessary. this bill would shift that burden of proof on the prosecutors who would have to present clear and convincing evidence in a pretrial hearing that the defendant was acting on motives other than self-defense before they could press charges. joining me now is tim wilmer, prosecuting attorney for st. charles county, misso...

Instituted? >> well, i think it's going to have devastating consequences, especially to cities like st. louis and kansas city, both of which have extraordinarily high murder rates. right now in the city of st. louis, for example, the clearance rate for murder cases is about 30%. if this law becomes or if this bill becomes law, i think you're going to have murder clearance rates in the single digits. just take a simple example. let's say a husband and wife are home alone, and the husband decides he wants to off his wife. he kills her, puts a bat next to the bed, when the police show up, he can ...

>> what's their justification for it? >> you know, i think they say that they're trying to protect missouri, law-abiding missouri citizens who use firearms to protect them from unfair prosecutions. i can't think of one in the state of missouri. i think this is really just an attempt to appeal to the far-right wing of our party and make sure that you don't give your opponent any talking points in the primary to say you're in any way anti-second amendment. >> can you talk about the real-life consequences here as well, tim? we just obviously heard there from state senator williams saying in that ...