Bad Chief, No Donut

Today's article in the Strib says that the proposed concealed-carry liberalization bill suffered a big blow when the Minnesota Chiefs of Police Association reneged on four months worth of negotiations and went back to opposing the bill.

But the MCPA has opposed this bill every year! It certainly made a difference last year, when the bill fell two votes short of passage in the Senate.

You - and the media - need to remember that the members of the MCPA are mostly political appointees, many of them appointed by soft-on-guns urban mayors. The very fact that they addressed this issue among themselves is a victory of sorts for MN-CCRN.