Two Gun Bills Passed By Minnesota House

By Tom Knighton

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The state of Minnesota just passed two anti-gun bills. One is a red flag law, and the other is a universal background check bill. Neither are particularly revolutionary. We’ve seen them pop up in state after state so far.

What gets me this time, though, are some of the arguments being made.

First, is what motivated at least one member of the anti-gun side to back these bills.

After 17 people were killed in the Parkland, Florida shooting last year, Martha Wheeler decided that was enough.

“Even as a teacher when we were doing shooter drills, it just didn’t seem like the right thing to be doing, to be traumatizing little kids with shooting drills,” Wheeler said.

It led her to become a volunteer at Moorhead’s chapter of Minnesota Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense, a group that’s hoping two new gun control bills will get passed soon.

“If the laws that we have in place were enough, we wouldn’t have a record number of people dying by gun violence.”

Apparently, Wheeler has never heard about enforcement of gun laws.

You can have all the laws in the world, but unless they’re implemented and enforced correctly, they’re not worth the paper they’re printed …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms