Minnesota Mayors’ Demand for Local Gun Control Dumb and Hypocritical

The various states of this country are often referred to by which way they break in presidential elections. You’ve got red states, blue states, and purple states that seem to swing back and forth. 

In reality, though, things aren’t that simple. In most states, the major urban centers are very leftist, the rural areas lean right, and how many of which determines which color applies.

Minnesota, for example, is a pretty blue state these days. They haven’t voted for a Republican presidential candidate since Nixon and haven’t voted reliably Republican since Herbert Hoover’s first campaign nearly a century ago.

Gov. Tim Walz is vehemently anti-gun, which fits the left-leaning politics of his state, but the state isn’t quite as blue as many would like to believe. The rural areas are just powerful enough to fight back on issues like gun control, and that’s infuriating many.

Now, a group of urban mayors is demanding an end to preemption in the state.

A coalition of city leaders, including the mayors of Minnesota’s four largest cities, lobbied again Tuesday for a change to state law that would allow local municipalities to set their own gun regulations.

At a packed news conference inside the state capitol, Saint Paul Mayor Melvin Carter, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, Rochester Mayor Kim Norton, Bloomington Mayor Tim Busse, and mayors of several major Twin Cities suburbs said their cities are all drafting gun control ordinances that can only take effect if the state legislature repeals a statute known as the “preemption law.” 

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“We have asked, and are asking again, for our state to either act and set those things into law statewide, or remove the preemptions that prevent cities from being able to implement these laws ourselves,” Carter said. “State law preempts us from even enforcing these common-sense laws.”

In Saint Paul, Carter said the council will introduce an ordinance next week on gun regulations. Contingent on the repeal of the preemption law, that measure would implement citywide bans on assault weapons, binary triggers, high-capacity magazines, and ghost guns, along with other policies such as restricting firearms in some public spaces like parks, libraries and recreation centers. Frey said the Minneapolis City Council is preparing a similar ordinance that he would sign immediately.

All too often, these people want local control because they don’t think the state is doing enough, but we all know that if they could bully the legislature into passing these exact measures, they’d lose their minds over rural communities wanting to ignore them.

It’s never really about local control. It’s about putting as much gun control in place as humanly possible.

And let’s be real here, these would be local ordinances. They wouldn’t stop criminal behavior in any way, shape, or form. “How dare you have this horrible, evil, no good, very bad rifle. Here’s your fine.”

That’s pretty much what you’re going to see. Sure, they might have some time in county lock-up, but if people are willing to commit felonies like murder, county jail isn’t really going to intimidate them.

Further, misdemeanors don’t lead to people being prohibited from owning a gun, with a few notable exceptions.

They’re hypocritical because they want control to pass anti-gun regulations, but refuse to let any other community have fewer restrictions based on their own needs, and they’re stupid for thinking local gun control would actually do a damn thing to anyone for any reason.

This isn’t new, either. We see it all the time, in pretty much every preemption state out there.

It doesn’t make it any less stupid, though. Quite the contrary.

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