Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz really, really wants to pass more gun control. He's been pushing for it for a while, but after the Annunciation shooting, he's been pushing harder than ever.
And failing, which has led to what I call the Temper Tantrum Tour.
Basically, the state's version of the Democratic Party--the Democrat-Farmer-Labor Party, or DFL--is rallying to stage town halls to agitate for gun control.
This effort just kicked off, with Walz and anti-gun zealot Gabby "No More Guns" Giffords.
With negotiations in the Minnesota Legislature at a standstill , former congresswoman Gabby Giffords joined Gov. Tim Walz on Saturday, Oct. 25, to kick off a series of DFL-led town halls to discuss gun violence.
The first of the series drew roughly 850 Minnesotans to the Waconia High School auditorium, where Giffords implored them to be “courageous.” In 2011, Giffords was shot by a gunman at a constituent event in Tucson, Arizona. Six people were killed, and 12 others were injured.
“Stopping gun violence takes courage, the courage to do what’s right,” said Giffords, who has since started a gun violence prevention organization. “Now is the time to come together, be responsible — Democrat, Republican, Independent.”As public pressure mounts for a special session, Walz said in early October that he needs Republicans to agree to a vote on gun control before he calls a special session — a reversal from early September when he said a special session would happen “one way or another.”
“We simply, as Minnesotans, have to make the case, ‘You are not going to do what you did in every other place where you hope we forget and drag this out and stall to the point where nobody wants to have this conversation,’ ” he said Saturday.
Of course, Walz neglected to say anything about how Republicans were willing to sit down and talk; they just weren't open to an assault weapon ban. That was their line in the sand, and Walz couldn't respect that, so now he pretends that they wouldn't even talk.
And please stop the whole "you have to be courageous" nonsense. Either anti-gunners think it takes courage to support gun control, or it's massively popular and should pass on that alone. You cannot have it both ways. No courage is needed to do what is supposedly popular and simple to do. Absolutely no one is praised for their courage for getting an ice cream cone.
No, courage is needed if something is unpopular but you believe it to be right.
Yet anti-gunners keep pretending that they're not only morally right to push for an infringement on our rights, and that everyone wants them to do it anyway. It's insane.
As for the town hall, let's keep in mind that Waconia is part of the Minneapolis-Saint Paul metro area, which means it's drawing people from the suburbs of two of the state's largest and most anti-gun cities. 850 attendees sounds impressive, but it's in an area where gun control is already popular, which means they didn't change any minds. And according to the MN Gun Owners Caucus, the event was by invitation only, so this wasn't really a "town hall" at all.
Walz is holding his first “town hall” on gun bans in Waconia.
— MN Gun Owners Caucus (@mnguncaucus) October 25, 2025
Invite only, airport style security screening, and fundraising emails.
It’s all for show. pic.twitter.com/dabwldWnR8
Walz has completely glossed over the fact that his beloved red flag law, which was passed last year, failed to stop the Annunciation shooting. That's a law that keeps being pushed as the answer to mass shooting woes, and yet it did absolutely nothing. Rather than recognize that the issue is far more complex than he'd like to believe, he just ignored his own failures and pushed forward, and can't understand why Republicans aren't tripping over themselves to betray their constituents.
It's a mystery, ain't it?
Look, Walz is a supposed master gunner and hunter who can't even load or unload his shotgun without looking like a hedgehog trying to rev up a Harley. We shouldn't expect either consistency or competence from him.
