Chris Coleman – Saint Paul’s utterly undistinguished three-term DFL placeholder mayor for the past 12 years, and yet again a DFL candidate for Governor – released his gun control agenda.
That it’s a monument to DFL Metrocrat entitled ignorance should come as no surprise.
But there’s a dose of the kind of hypocrisy you only find in a one-party city thrown in as well.
Ignorance Is Chris: The first point makes sense – if you know nothing about the issue.
Requiring background checks on every gun purchased or transferred in Minnesota. There should not be different safety rules for online gun purchases vs. in-store gun purchases.
You already need to get a background check – in stores, or at a federally license dealer if you buy online.
Either Coleman is aiming for the hysteric vote, or he’s being advised by the terminally ignorant, or – and my money’s on this – both.
They Blinded Him With Pseudo-Science: Next, a bow to the DFLers who think they love them some science because Neil DeGrasse Tyson:
Allowing scientists to do their jobs by rolling back gun lobby restrictions on studying gun violence as a public health issue. We must invest in the Minnesota Department of Health and give researchers the tools they need to help address the epidemic of gun violence.
The notion that crime is a public health issue is balderdash, postulated by that rare breed of “scientists” who start with their conclusion before the actual experiment. Government is right to withhold funding from this non-scientific “science”.
Guilty Until Proven Guilty: This next one almost sounds like it makes sense:
Implementing a Gun Violence Protective Order (GVPO) law to create a legal path for family and household members, and law enforcement, to temporarily remove guns and prevent new gun purchases by those who pose a risk to themselves or others.
Sounds like a good idea, especially in the wake of last week’s shooting in California.
But be careful; if this proposal skirts judicial due process, then it’s a camel’s nose under the tent. Before long, it’ll turn into the terror watch list – any government bureaucrat will be able to put your name into the database over some of the most abstract possible definitions of “risk”.
Among Friends: But number four? That’s the funny one:
Requiring mandatory reporting of all lost or stolen guns because we know the sooner law enforcement can identify and recover missing firearms, the more likely we are to keep dangerous people and criminals from perpetrating gun-related crimes. States with mandatory reporting laws report 33% fewer gun-related crimes than states without these regulations.
Does that include buddies of the Mayor?
Like Melvin Carter, who had two guns stolen from his house, but never bothered to report them? And then went on to become the next mayor of Saint Paul, in part with Mayor Coleman’s endorsement?
“The notion that crime is a public health issue is balderdash, postulated by that rare breed of “scientists” who start with their conclusion before the actual experiment.”
Remember this?
http://www.guncite.com/journals/tennmed.html
I’d be interested to know what the St. Paul PD does when it recovers a stolen gun. Do they call the owner to say “come and get it,” do they sell unclaimed guns at auction to licensed buyers, or do they destroy recovered guns?
If only we could get rid of all federal funding for politicized “science”, the climatology community would be thunderstruck.
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It doesn’t take great insight to know where the “guns are public health hazard” came from….just look at the wretches huddled in their parkas huffing a smoke across the street from the office.
It’s no surprise that in SC, smoking is a bar owners call.