Now Keep Your Eye On Minnesota’s Crime Rate

ANTI-GUNNERS WRONG (AGAIN) ABOUT GUNS AND CONCEALED CARRY-LAWS

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Data released by the Minneapolis, Minnesota Star Tribune Friday showed that anti-gunners were wrong again in their predictions about “Wild West” shootouts and “Blood in the Streets” regarding the right to carry law that was passed in 2003, but didn’t really go into effect until May of 2006 after all the hulla ballu of the anti-gunners trying to reverse it. This is a vindication of every armed citizen in the state, Joe Waldron of the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms.

Just as Diane Feinstein Senator D. Ca said when the Federal Assault weapon’s ban was finally overturned …”now there will be blood in the streets” she said. In a way it is too bad that she is always wrong and there is not blood in the streets, we could have given Diane a real job of cleaning it up, it might have kept her busy and out of trouble with the military contracts scandal that her and her husband have benefited from, to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars. A little conflict if interest there Diane??? … Naw, just padding the ole checkbook with some taxpayer’s money, after all, all monies and power belong to the government anyway right Diane??? Moreover Diane is the Government … Sorry I just couldn’t help myself…

According to the Minneapolis Star Tribune printing the first 6 months of Minnesota Crime Stats since the right to carry went into effect, people with gun permits have been far less likely to be involved in a crime, whether it is a physical assault, a drug crime, or even drunken driving. Authorities have confirmed that the hysterical predictions about “Gunfights at Traffic Stops” and “Danger to Children” simply have not materialized.

”Of course you will not hear an apology, or any kind of acknowledgement from the anti-gun and anti-self-defense crowd about the statistics,” said CCRKBA Executive Director Joe Waldron. “No doubt they will try to blame the law for crimes committed by people carrying guns illegally. But the newspaper did a good job of sorting out fact from fiction.

“We knew all along what Hennepin County Sheriff Rich Stanek told the newspaper,” he continued. “The worst predictions of the anti-American, anti-Second Amendment gun control advocates who bitterly fought to keep this law off the books just haven’t come true. We’re delighted that the press, even though they did not support the law, has at least acknowledged that the public has a right to know how the law is working.

“Minnesota is just one more state where people have been given the opportunity to pass a law and then see how it really works,” Waldron observed. The state’s legally-armed citizens have proven not only that they are overwhelmingly responsible with firearms, the data shows that providing the means for citizens to go armed is not a threat to the public safety, au contraire it will eventually see the crime rate decrease and citizen safety increase.

The Minnesota Personal Protection Act has succeeded in dismantling the worn-out and recycled myth that legally-armed citizens are somehow a threat to the general public. “We knew they were wrong at the start,” Waldron said, “and now even the ignorant know it, even though most will not admit it.” Funny how the Constitutional framers knew what was good for a Free America and what was “…necessary for the security of a Free State”.

THE BOTTOM LINE: I say keep an eye on the state of Minnesota because just as anyplace the Second Amendment has been tried, their violent crime rate will drop dramatically over time, slowly at first, and then by 10, 20, even 30 %, rapes, home burglaries, convenience store and bank robberies, muggings, assaults and murders etc. As the criminal’s begin to realize, (and they will,) that anyone on the street could be exercising their right to be armed, anywhere, anytime; the criminals will then begin to go elsewhere.

My editor asks me, where will they go??? Obviously, I said, to a place like Southern California where the Kool Aid drinking liberals still believe in such things as a flat earth, or that George Soros is the center of the universe, or how the sun orbits around Brittney Spears , moreover, where global warming is caused by industry, lower class cow flatulence and middle class SUV’s. Or even more outrages myths like, wrenches break automobiles, chainsaws kill trees, hammers bend nails, glue and screws make furniture, cigarettes cause forest fires, and the crowning bogeyman of all, (I’m so sorry, I mean bogeyperson of course) “guns kill people” .

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