The governor \u2013 hurriedly switching from a T-shirt to some sort of suit, and from chucklehead fairgoers to \u201ctough on crime\u201c governor – wants extra special consequences for the apparent gang banger who fired shots in the \u201cgun free zone\u201c that is a Minnesota State Fair:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n“If someone\u2019s going to use a firearm in a crowded area where there\u2019s innocent people and children, there needs to be a heavy penalty for that,” said the governor, calling on judges to get tougher.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
Of course, the means to do that exist; the state already has a sentence enhancement – not only for people who shoot up the states biggest public relations vehicle, but for people who use guns in crimes at all. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Of course, the Ramsey County attorney John Choi, who would have jurisdiction in prosecuting the state fair shooter (if he\u2019s ever arrested, much less prosecuted) has never, ever, not once sought that enhancement; at best, he\u2019s dropped it as a sweetener for a plea deal; mostly \u2013 as in this shameful incident i<\/a>n 2015 \u2013 he doesn\u2019t even bother. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Either did Susan Gertner, the prosecutor before him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Either did Tom Foley, the prosecutor before her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
That\u2019s 30 years worth of DFL prosecutors who have never, not once, applied in the sentence enhancement that governor \u201cDirty Harry\u201c Walz suddenly wants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The governor \u2013 hurriedly switching from a T-shirt to some sort of suit, and from chucklehead fairgoers to \u201ctough on crime\u201c governor – wants extra special consequences for the apparent gang banger who fired shots in the \u201cgun free zone\u201c that is a Minnesota State Fair: “If someone\u2019s going to use a firearm in a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,144,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-and-punishment","category-governor","category-minnesota-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=83303"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83304,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83303\/revisions\/83304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}