Minnesota Dems Melt Down After Gun Ban Vote Fails

Minnesota theater lovers who can’t get tickets to Broadway on Hennepin’s current production of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child should head on down to the state capitol building, where Democrats are currently starring in a bit of political performance art. Perhaps we can call  it Tim Walz and the Cursing Lawmaker. 

🚨 Democrats in the Minnesota House have gone completely UNHINGED 🚨

When house dems didnt get the vote they wanted on the most extreme gun-grabbing bill in the country HF5140 one of their own, Rep. Gomez, actually told Republican @elliottengenMN to “go fucking kill himself.”… pic.twitter.com/nwNwZ9FjEw

— Drew Roach (@DrewRoachMN) May 15, 2026

Rep. Aisha Gomez is the green-haired goblin who told Rep. Elliott Engen to unalive himself after Democrats failed in their longshot bid to get a gun and magazine ban bill through the evenly-divided House. Democrats were able to use a procedural move to try to bring the bill directly to the floor, but passage would have required 90 votes in favor, and the motion failed on a 67-67 vote. 

Republicans have been clear from even before this year’s session began that a gun and magazine ban in response to last August’s shooting at Annunciation Church was a non-starter, but have offered bills that would allow both public and private schools to access funds to improve school security. Democrats have been equally clear that unless a gun and magazine ban is included, they have no interest in security upgrades to K-12 campuses. 

Here is Rep. @elliottengenMN proposing to Democrats to stop engaging in the same old debates that haven’t worked, and to instead work together to find a new visionary approach to keeping Minnesotans safe.

Just hours later, they told him to “go fcking shoot himself.” https://t.co/8KlPz98XWn pic.twitter.com/l7ndM8EIG8

— Dustin Grage (@GrageDustin) May 15, 2026

And today’s talking point from the Democrats will be that Republicans don’t care about kids; that they love their guns more than their own sons and daughters. 

The reality is that these Democrat lawmakers are perfectly fine with schools that lack classroom doors, secure entrances, and armed resource officers. It’s banning the most popular rifle and commonly-owned magazines that they’re really interested in. If Democrats had dropped the gun control portion of their bill while keeping the increased funding for school security and mental health services, it would have been adopted on a bipartisan basis. Heck, if a single Democrat had been willing to go along with the Republican proposals to do just that, a bill would have been sent to Gov. Tim Walz weeks ago 

Instead, Democrats debuted another act in this session’s long-running political theater. After their procedural vote failed and Gomez and other Democrats told Engen to off himself, they held a “sit in” overnight to pout about those meanie Republicans who won’t go along with their gun ban plans. 

Before Thursday’s House session ended, Rep. Liish Kozlowski, DFL-Duluth, announced the overnight protest to demand a regular vote on the Senate gun violence bill: “Until we hold the vote, we will sit.”

“To every colleague, Republican or Democrat, please remain in the House on the floor here with us after session,” Kozlowski said. “Together we can sit, sing, stand, do a healing dance, and we can vote. It’s OK to change your mind. Show us your courage, let us leave this gun violence behind.”

What nonsense. Just look at what happened in Boston this week. Despite having some of the most restrictive gun laws in the nation, including a ban on “assault weapons,” a convicted felon was able to get ahold of a semi-automatic rifle and use it to target motorists on a busy street in Cambridge. Gun control didn’t stop his rampage. An armed citizen and a Massachusetts state trooper did. 

This year’s legislative session will come to a close on Monday. Then Democrats will bring their show on the road, campaigning on the false premise that Republicans blocked a gun ban because they’re tools of the gun lobby who care more about donations from the NRA than the lives of little kids. The truth is that Minnesota students could be better protected when they return to class this fall were it not for the unwillingness of these Democrats to drop their gun ban demands and vote for a standalone school security and mental health bill. 

Editor’s Note: The radical Left will stop at nothing to enact their radical gun control agenda and strip us of our Second Amendment rights.

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