Let me illustrate your point in a hyperbolized (if that's a word) manner:
"If it helps stop terrorists from murdering your children, do you believe the NSA should have the ability to monitor electronic communication?"
Don't throw out the words "Fox" and "News" like it will discredit the man. An increasing individual dependency on the state and a ballooning federal government aren't just talking points.
This is the opposite of Arizona. He's suggesting that Missouri changes to have DST year round, effectively making the state in Eastern time zone with no DST; it is kind of weird. This means that in mid-December it would be getting dark around 6pm, not 4pm.
I see nefarious developers for companies with limited oversight pulling an "Office Space" and truncating the remaining pennies rather than rounding up and depositing them into various accounts. I realize that is almost impossible to do without being caught, but I've seen Office Space too many times so that is the first thing that popped into my head...
How do we know they didn't fabricate these threats themselves? Did they even file any police reports? I'm pretty skeptical that any of the CCW owners actually called the newspaper and threatened any of the editors.