Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n
One problem with gun control is over-breadth. To keep firearms out of North Minneapolis, we must ban them statewide, even nationwide and perhaps worldwide, or else they\u2019ll just trickle back in as people move around.<\/p>\n
Maybe the problem is freedom of travel? That doesn\u2019t appear anywhere in the Constitution or the amendments, it\u2019s a right invented by the Supreme Court and the early cases dealt with travel Between states. But what about travel Within a single state? Can we limit that?<\/p>\n
Perhaps Minneapolis could impose reasonable restrictions on travel into or out of North Minneapolis? Close off all but a few streets, set up a checkpoint and search everyone coming into the North Minneapolis Sterile Zone for ugly guns and high-capacity magazines. That would create a safe and peaceful Gun Free Zone where it\u2019s most needed but still allow people in rural Minnesota to keep firearms for hunting and self-defense. Nizel George would not have died in vain.<\/p>\n
Reasonable restrictions on a right that\u2019s not even mentioned in the Constitution. What could possibly be wrong with that?<\/p>\n
Joe Doakes<\/p>\n
Como Park<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Saint Paul could use the same idea – a wall around the city, with a fee to get\u00a0out\u00a0<\/em>– for economic development!<\/p>\n
The Constitution doesn’t mention anything about “no walls around cities!”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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