Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:

Article in Slate, republished in today’s Star Tribune on-line:

“So let’s drop the pretense. Most politicians standing in the way of background checks for firearms don’t really believe in freedom or limited government. They simply care more about controlling immigration than they do about controlling guns.”

You say that like it’s a bad thing.

Joe Doakes

Como Park

Lawmakers being more interested in curbing law-breaking than attacking the law-abiding?

There oughtta be a law.