There's no world where anyone should be comfortable with what happened at Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis during morning mass. No world at all.
But anti-gunners sure seem to be, as they leverage it for control.
That's not unusual, of course. They do it all the time after any high-profile shooting. But in Minnesota, mayors from their larger urban centers are asking for the power to enact local gun control.
St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter and leaders of other metro-area cities are calling for the Minnesota Legislature to allow them to create local gun control laws if state lawmakers can’t reach an agreement on new policies.
...Recognizing that political reality, Carter, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, and leaders of seven other cities gathered Tuesday at the Minnesota Capitol to ask state leaders to repeal a 1985 state law preventing local governments from enacting their own gun control.
“We have an emergency and we are simply asking our legislature to do what every 8-year-old in that school knew to do last week: Take action,” said Carter, noting along with other mayors that he would prefer a federal or state ban to local action.
“If you’re not able to do it or willing to do it there, give us the ability to keep our constituents safe,” Frey said. “That is our call. That is our ask.”
Now, let's understand that the killer here committed multiple acts of murder. He clearly intended to kill even more people than he did. He hurt plenty more, too.
But somehow, these mayors are arguing that local gun control ordinances would somehow keep people safe from those willing to commit multiple capital crimes?
Sure. Pull the other one. It's got bells on it.
What's more, none of these pissants has a clue of just what they'd do.
City leaders didn’t get into specifics on how local bans might take shape, though they shared a general idea of what they wanted.
Mayors called for an overall ban on the sale and possession of “assault style weapons,” which would include the AR-15 — a semiautomatic rifle with features like pistol grips and detachable magazines. Frey said magazine capacity would be limited to 10 bullets.
Minneapolis and St. Paul don’t have any stores that sell guns, so local bans in those cities would mainly affect people who already own semiautomatic rifles and larger magazines.
Asked if there would be anything that could stop someone from buying a gun in one municipality and bringing it to another, Minnetonka Mayor Brad Wiersum, whose city has a gun retailer, said doing nothing at all to regulate weapons would be a bigger cause for concern.
“If you take away opportunities to get guns, there will be fewer guns used,” he said. “Does it solve the problem? It does not. But does it reduce the problem? Does it mitigate the problem? Yes, it does.”
No, it doesn't.
Criminals--and mass killers are most definitely criminals--don't care about the law. If this twerp had any interest in obeying the law, he wouldn't have killed two children and injured so many others. Making it so he has to venture elsewhere to buy a gun isn't exactly a deterrent, you know?
And let's look at something for a moment. Minneapolis and St. Paul don't have a gun retailer? Yet this monster still got a gun and committed this atrocity. That should be a lesson for everyone, and yet these jackwagons are saying they need more authority to regulate guns? Minneapolis has a permit-to-purchase requirement for handguns and so-called assault weapons. They have universal background checks for both as well. That means someone has to go to an FFL holder to carry out a transfer, which means no one is buying a gun inside the city limits of Minneapolis.
That accomplished absolutely nothing at all.
Shocking, I know.
And again, any additional laws they can enact at the local level are misdemeanors. They're nowhere near significant enough to stop criminals, even by locking them up for a prolonged period of time. They'll accomplish nothing to reduce violent crime, especially as Minneapolis isn't exactly a safe city, despite no lawful gun sales really happening within the city's confines.
This push, if it were really about reducing crime and stopping mass murders, is beyond stupid.
If it's just about control, well, that changes things, doesn't it?
