As was noted last week, there’ve been two arrests in the first armed robbery in the 150-odd year history of the Minnesota State Fair.
Two Saint Paul men were arrested in the August 29 robbery of the MN Craft Beer booth, which netted (at least briefly) over $100,000.
St. Paul residents Antontio Washington, 20, and Jarret Maiden, 35, have been booked into jail in suspicion of being behind the $10,000-plus heist, which was the first armed robbery in the fair’s history.
But there’s a mystery!
As was noted on this blog during the fair, the Minnesota State Fairgrounds was posted, for the first time since “shall issue” carry reform passed in 2003, as a gun-free zone.
And yet…:
State Fair police spokesperson Brooke Blakey tells us the gun believed to have been used during the robbery has been recovered, but declined further comment, citing the active investigation.
So there’s a mystery worthy of Poireau or Holmes. Two, really:
- How did an illegal gun make it past the signs at the front gate?
- How did a gun wind up getting used in a crime where guns had just been made illegal?
Someone explain this to me?
It’s simple, Mitch! The signs were distracted by other visitors!
Mitch:
I think Holmes will tell you and those liberals that the signs don’t stop a criminal from carrying the gun on to the fair grounds to commit the crime.
Walter Hanson
Minneapolis, MN
The War on Drugs was such a success that the totalitarian progressives decided to try the same thing with a War on Guns.
You didn’t read the signs correctly. /Legal/ guns are not permitted. Illegal guns don’t exist and therefore can’t possibly be carried onto the fairgrounds, and cannot be used in the commission of a crime. The gun found in the investigation is most certainly not a legally acquired and licensed gun, so it isn’t really a “gun” worthy of mention. You see, to a liberal, reality isn’t what counts, it’s how you feel something OUGHT to be, and you get to define all your own terms.
I wonder if this is something the SAF might be interested now that they went full monty with posting the fairgrounds….
Sounds like a good topic of conversation for this weekend’s Gun Rights Policy Conference in Chicago.
Y’all are missing the point. The problem is not the Fairgrounds posting, but rather that not everybody is forcibly disarmed, like in Germany in 1938. What could possibly go wrong in such a scenario?