The shooting last week at a Minneapolis Catholic school was always going to rock the city and the nation. Killing children, wounding more than a dozen more, as well as two adults, as they sat in mass is just disturbing on so many levels. It’s horrible, and that’s not really something up for dispute.
But the issue is that we once again have a gun control push that’s trying to use the bodies of the slain to justify something that never would have stopped anything.
And in Minneapolis, they started their offensive, and frankly, I’m unimpressed.
Minnesotans are calling for change after a mass shooting at a Minneapolis church packed with children.
Shooting survivors led a march from Lake Harriet toward the Annunciation Church and School on Monday. Hundreds of people turned out to show their support.
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The march was originally scheduled to end at Annunciation School, but organizers say Annunciation had expressed concerns that too many people might come to their site, which has already been inundated with well-wishers and people coming to town.
Hundreds of protesters also filled the steps of the State Capitol on Monday for another rally organized by Moms and Students Demand Action.
“We are here at the State Capitol demanding that enough is enough,” an Eagan High School student said.
Now, times for these events aren’t given, so it’s possible there was some degree of overlap, but I doubt it.
These were two separate events, held on a federal holiday that’s observed by many private businesses, in a city with nearly 430,000 people, to say nothing of folks from outside of the city, and all they could muster were “hundreds” of people?
Of course, that term could mean anything from 200 to 999 people, if not more, but it’s unlikely it had the upper-level attendence. If it did, they’d have described it as “nearly a thousand” or something like that.
So, we’ve got a few hundred people out of millions who could have attended, and we’re supposed to be impressed?
Plus, this is Minnesota. This isn’t exactly a pro-gun state. Sure, they’re not as awful on guns as some would like for them to be, but they’re still a lot more likely to embrace gun control than many other places, and they can’t rally more support than this?
I’m sorry, but that’s kind of laughable.
Of course, those who did attend are talking about things like assault weapon bans, but none of them are talking about how the red flag law they passed last year, ostensibly to prevent something just like this, failed spectacularly.
Yes, the killer used an AR-15, but since everyone in that church was unarmed by law, it’s not like he needed one. No one was in a position to stop him. No one at all.
So a small, vocal handful are begging for laws that wouldn’t do anything at all, and the local media is acting like it’s the majority of people. Me? I’m unimpressed that a small number of people, relative to the population, are screaming, “Tread on me harder, Daddy”, and pretending we need to take them seriously.
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