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Harriety

(298 posts)
5. This awful bill was vetoed by our govoner in Minnesota
Tue Mar 20, 2012, 11:59 AM
Mar 2012

and I think it should be looked at again in the other states who thought it was a good idea for people to carry and shoot when they suspected someone was up to no good. While I trust a great many people to use a gun responsibly, there are some who would use it to do just what this man did. He stalked an innocent young man who looked suspicious to him because of the color of his skin, followed him, and gunned him down. He should be in jail. Any the people involved in not jailing him should be fired.

My girlfriend tried to tell me that we needed this type of law here in Minnesota because last year a woman that she knew was broken into and she had a gun and was able to shoot one of the perpetrators and therefore protected herself. I said that was totally different and explained how if this law was passed, someone could use a gun and shoot someone they saw on the street that just looked suspicious to them. She still disagreed with me and said it was obvious to her that I just did not like guns.

Frustrated, and trying to curb my anger, I then started singing "Just call me Annie Oakley, Annie, Annie Oakley, Queen of the wild west, show. With a hey giddy up and a bang... bang....bang, riding and shooting is my game." She then thought it would be great then if we both got guns... Oh, well. Sometimes they just won't listen. But I am very happy Governor Dayton did veto this gun law that had been proposed by our Republican Legislator.

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