Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz has long favored gun control. He didn’t, but that’s until he decided to run for statewide office, and it was suddenly more politically acceptable than being an anti-gun control Democrat.
But he hasn’t been able to deliver it like he wants to.
Now, in the wake of the shooting in Minneapolis, he’s called a special legislative session to pass gun control.
And the city council of Minneapolis is asking him to do just that.
The Minneapolis City Council will petition Governor Tim Walz and the Minnesota Legislature Tuesday afternoon to pursue new gun control reform in the aftermath of the mass shooting at Annunciation Church and School.
Letter to Gov. Walz
What we know:
The city council is filing a letter to Gov. Walz on Tuesday in support of a special session at the Minnesota State Capitol to pursue legislation on gun control. They’re also filing a resolution calling on Walz and the legislature to get a state-wide ban on assault rifles and high-capacity magazines.
It comes after two students were killed, and 21 other people were wounded in an Aug. 27 shooting at Annunciation Church as the community was gathering for an all-school mass to start the academic year. Fletcher Merkel, 8, and Harper Moyski, 10, were killed in the attack. A total of 18 other students were wounded, as were three adults.
I wish I could say I was surprised, but this is Minneapolis. Nothing about this is shocking, really.
Of course, they will largely ignore the fact that the killer specifically targeted a school, particularly a church school, because it was a gun-free zone and he wouldn’t meet armed resistance. That’s unlikely to come up during the special session, as is the fact that the killer had all day to shoot, so making him choose a different gun for this atrocity or restricting his magazine capacity wouldn’t have accomplished anything at all.
They won’t acknowledge any of it, I’m sure.
But that’s not the point, either, now is it?
No, the point is to use the crisis to advance the policies they already wanted. They wanted an assault weapon ban and tried to get it earlier this year, only they failed. Now, they hope to leverage this to make it happen.
Hell, it’s not hard to understand why conspiracy theorists think these things are staged. All too often, they’re almost exactly what anti-gunners need to push the policies they most want. It’s too damn convenient for some people to accept it as a coincidence. I can’t say that I blame them, even if I’m not in the same camp.
Of course, as already noted earlier today, it’s funny how the problem is guns when the bad guy seems left-leaning, but when he’s right-leaning, it’s all the evil Republicans’ fault.
And so they push for something they have always wanted, will blame any Republican who stands in their way, and use the bodies of these dead children as a soapbox to push an agenda that simply does not work and shame anyone who disagrees into silence, if they can.
So dig in, Minnesotans. You’re about to have a fight, and the city of Minneapolis, with his myriad of failures in recent years, is more than willing to pretend to be the moral ones in this debate.
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