(1) The thing that really drives me nuts about the law is all the blankety-blank signs that are required. I could probably adjust to the knowledge that there are primitives around who carry deadly weapons on a regular basis despite this being a civilized society that depends upon police rather than "self-help" to prevent crime. But being constantly "assaulted" by the "No guns allowed" signs in Minneapolis and St. Paul that remind me of all the guns that are around is just too much. Reportedly, the whole signage business was designed to make so obnoxious that people wouldn't put up the signs. Instead, most people found that having people carrying deadly weapons around was the more obnoxious choice.
(2) The simple fact is that most places in Minneapolis and St. Paul have actually posted the "No guns allowed" signs. And what that means for the gun carriers that there is almost NO destination into which they can take their artillery. So, are they politely taking their guns back to their cars and leaving them (as did the perp in the Nye's case)? The answer, I fear, is that the gun carriers are ignoring the signs and just continuing to pack heat inside -- signs or no signs. And, if so, that means that the "law abiding citizen" argument is just so much trash talk. Unfortunately, proving that fact would require frequent sweeps at places to frisk everyone for guns to see if they are defying the law by carring guns where "no gun" signs are posted. And that makes a bad situation even worse.
I admit that incidents such as the one that occurred at Nye's have been a lot less frequent than I thought they were going to be. But, the question still is, how frequent do such incidents have to be before the gun law is determined to be a dumb policy for Minneapolis or anywhere else?
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