Quagmire In Minneapolis, Part XXXVI

A shooting at a Wendy's in south Minneapolis leaves two wounded:

Minneapolis police are searching for two teenagers after a double shooting at a fast food restaurant in south Minneapolis late Monday night.

This particular Wendys is the one that Joel Rosenberg's family frequents:

Sounds very much like an intramural thing among gangbangers, but innocents can get hit by stray bullets. (All in all, the Crips, Vice Lords, Bloods, etc. are not overly reknowned for the efficacy of their handgun safety training program, despite the new advances in aiming technology.)

(Err... the bit about the sights is a joke. The bit about the shooting isn't.)

What advances in aiming technology?

You'll have to go to Joel's site to see that.

About 20 years ago, during Minneapolis' first spate of gang shootings, a Minneapolis cop told me that the safest place to be during a gang shootout was the target; the worst place was as an innocent bystander, 45 degrees off the line of fire (the night before my conversation, a boy in an apartment half a block away from a cross-street shoot out had been hit and paralyzed).

Gangbangers the world over can thank John Woo for teaching thugs the world over that it's cool to hold guns on their sides...

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