"Most folks I know who live in this neck of the woods, HATE driving into Minneapolis. For a variety of reasons, primarily safety. The city is being managed by a boy mayor and a council who looks and acts like they are out of the Star Wars bar scene."
Anybody hear about last weekend? How our fair city of Minneapolis was trying to look a bit like Chicago? Okay - we are still small potatoes compared to Chicago. But we had a good showing (as far as crime is concerned). Ten people shot with four dead. If fact, it shook up one business owner so bad, he made the decision to pull up stakes and relocate somewhere else. "One murder happened right outside the steps of my business. It could have been an employee or customer." Did you hear that Mayor Frey? That is the sound of more money leaving your town.
I have said this for a while now. We have three options. Option One - let the cops be cops. It is no secret that most of the guns in Minneapolis are illegal. Have more aggressive policing, including "stop and frisk". Option Two - Do nothing. Go with the flow. If crime happens, then crime happens. Option Three - Never mind - there is no Option Three.
Under Mayor Frey and the current City Council, Option One is off the table. That leaves Minneapolis with only Option Two. God help the innocents who will get caught up in this ever growing crime wave. Gangs will become more embolden. Turf wars will become more pronounced. More small businesses will leave. How do I know? This is the same thing which has happened to many of the Blue cities points east of here.
And did you hear about the PUC meeting on the Northern Minnesota Pipeline Project? Some jackass(es) came in to disrupt the meeting. Came in with bullhorns, signs and a plan to disrupt. Bottom line? The meeting had to be scrubbed. Why? The lawless faction won again. Just like when they shut down freeways - and get away with it, scot-free. Could the cops have come in and removed them? Yes, but they did not. Why not? Because the Twin Cities are becoming lawless.
Most folks I know who live in this neck of the woods, HATE driving into Minneapolis or St. Paul. For a variety of reasons, primarily safety. The City of Minneapolis is being managed by a boy mayor, and a council who look and act like they came from the Star Wars bar scene. In other words, many think this city is not that far from total anarchy. And since they have voted to be a "sanctuary city", they might be there right now.
Good luck folks. If you live in Congressional Districts 4 or 5, you might want to consider moving to Congressional District 2 or 6. Then you will have some hope. Wake up. The Twin Cities are lost right now. They are lawless. They are hopeless. They are a mess.
Those guns in Mpls would not be illegal if you had your way. You advocate "constitutional carry" legislation.
ReplyDeleteIn the United States, the term constitutional carry, also called permitless carry, refers to the legal carrying of a handgun, either openly or concealed, without a license or permit.
That would go a long way towards solving the problems, or would it?
Maybe the police could carry a card with a tan color swatch and if your skin is darker than the card color, you would be ineligible for constitutional carry.
The problems migrate anyhow, to Brooklyn Center, Brooklyn Park, Anoka, Coon Rapids etc.
Opioid deaths are highest per capita in Anoka and Dakota Counties.
Meth heads are almost exclusively in greater MN, not the TC.
And closeted alcoholics are dominant in the TC suburbs.
So be it booze, guns or drugs; you can't escape them by running.
And if our first responders are unwilling or unable to deal with it, what then? Citizen action? Chaos and Anarchy?
Two words for you: False choice.
ReplyDeleteHow about we simply enforce the laws on the books? Felons are not allowed to have guns. Unlawful use of a gun is, by definition, a crime. Illegal drugs are illegal. Illegal immigration is illegal. The problem is not a lack of laws, goodness knows. The problem is an unwillingness to ENFORCE the laws because, heaven forbid, it might not have a race-neutral (or ideology-equivalent) result.
Disrupt a meeting? Disorderly conduct and you go to jail. Block a freeway? Reckless endangerment and you go to jail. Shoot somebody? You go to jail. Old Judge Parker of the Texas Rangers had it right, "It is not the severity of the punishment [that deters] but the certainty of it." Those certain of getting away with their crimes will continue and escalate.
Most of the guns in north Mpls are in the hands of juveniles with no felony convictions, juvenile records purged.
DeleteDoes this make possession of a gun a crime? No.
Constitutional carry would allow anyone without a felony conviction the opportunity to carry. Frightening.
You have to prevent the action. Just as we use vaccines to prevent disease. Filling private prisons with these folks doesn't do our country any favors. Just makes it more dangerous, unless life sentences without parole become the standard for guns, drugs and crossing the border.
The best preventive is self-control, brought on by the certainty of punishment. Juvenile possession of a gun is a crime. Our betters would have us believe that ANYBODY with a gun is a crime waiting to happen and the opposite is true. It's time to stop looking at politically correct law enforcement and wishful thinking, and start making life difficult for the criminally inclined.
ReplyDeleteAnd I'm not in favor of just "lock 'em up." I prefer the enlightened approach Mississippi uses, that of "mandatory rehabilitation" if you can qualify.
ReplyDeleteMS prorams include mental health and anger mgmt. programs along side of drug and alcohol. Very enlightening from a sh..hole state.
DeleteMore than that. They require regular work at jobs in or near the hometown, which they may (and should) keep at the end of their semi-incarceration. Liberals just don't like programs that insist on personal responsibility and self-improvement.
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