Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n
Once a week, the Minnesota Court of Appeals releases decisions in criminal cases that have been appealed.\u00a0 This week, four of them involve pistols possessed by people who aren\u2019t eligible to have them.<\/p>\n
One was handed his pistol by a friend just before the murder.\u00a0 One had a pistol in the trunk of a stolen car.\u00a0 One was carrying a pistol wrapped in plastic, secured with earbuds (not the way gun stores package the products they sell).\u00a0 One was found under the seat of a van \u2013 nobody knows how it got there.<\/p>\n
The court doesn\u2019t discuss how these ineligible people got their pistols, only the fact they had them.\u00a0 And these four cases are not everybody arrested with a gun, only those who had a strong enough case to appeal; but it\u2019s an indication that the problem is widespread.<\/p>\n
How would these crimes would have been prevented by universal background checks?<\/p>\n
Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
They’d give urban liberals that sense that they’ve dooooooone something.<\/p>\n
Which is all that they really care about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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