To: President Obama
\nFrom: Mitch Berg, Cranky Peasant
\nRe: Your visit.<\/p>\n
Mr. President,<\/p>\n
Your visit to the Twin Cities yesterday, the media assures us, was not just\u00a0<\/em>because it was yet another city that is utterly safe territory for you. \u00a0It’s because, supposedly, Minneapolis is a leader in “curbing gun violence”.<\/p>\n Let’s put it on the table.<\/p>\n While Minneapolis has the highest violent crime rate in Minnesota, its crime rates have been dropping over the years not\u00a0<\/em>because of anything the Minneapolis DFL establishment has done – they have been utterly useless, in fact – but because\u00a0<\/em>Minnesota is, despite being a purple-addled state, a very gun-friendly place. \u00a0State law prohibits cities from having different gun laws from the rest of the state – and the rest of the state is as solidly pro-Second-Amendment as anyplace west of the Mississippi. \u00a0We have good, solid carry permit law; law-abiding Minnesotans aren’t harried by excessive stupid laws…<\/p>\n …like people in your native, crime-ridden Chicago are, and like you want the rest of us to be.<\/p>\n Minneapolis, along with Saint Paul, are the parts of this state that most aggressively hassle gun law-abiding gun owners. \u00a0Left to their own devices, both would happily turn into little Chicagos (in more ways than just guns). \u00a0And they are the parts with the most crime.<\/p>\n That, as they say, is all.<\/p>\n