Anti-Gun Students Briefly Shut Down Minnesota State Capitol

By Tom Knighton

Anti-gun students want their voices to be heard. I get it, and I want them to have their voices heard. The great thing about this country of ours is that everyone’s voice can be heard.

That doesn’t mean that there’s not a right way and a wrong way to have your voice heard, though. For example, a group of anti-gun students in Minnesota managed to do everything wrong recently when it effectively shut down the state capitol for a time.

The group, led by Josh Groven of the School of Environmental Studies in Apple Valley, took a microphone at a witness table when the Senate Judiciary Committee was discussing an unrelated topic. The committee recessed for a time before coming back and resuming the other topic, elder care. Groven and other students were removed from the meeting.

Those at the afternoon committee meeting were part of a 20-student group that staged a sit-in at the office of committee Chairman Warren Limmer, R-Maple Grove, Monday morning. He said he told them at the time that Senate Republican leaders were considering their request.

Because nothing says “dispell the idea that kids are entitled, spoiled brats” quite like taking the microphone at a witness …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms