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Shot In The Dark:

To: President Obama

From: Mitch Berg, Cranky Peasant

Re: Your visit.

 

Mr. President,

 

Your visit to the Twin Cities yesterday, the media assures us, was not just because it was yet another city that is utterly safe territory for you. It’s because, supposedly, Minneapolis is a leader in “curbing gun violence”.

 

Let’s put it on the table.

 

While Minneapolis has the highest violent crime rate in Minnesota, its crime rates have been dropping over the years not because of anything the Minneapolis DFL establishment has done – they have been utterly useless, in fact – but because Minnesota is, despite being a purple-addled state, a very gun-friendly place. State law prohibits cities from having different gun laws from the rest of the state – and the rest of the state is as solidly pro-Second-Amendment as anyplace west of the Mississippi. We have good, solid carry permit law; law-abiding Minnesotans aren’t harried by excessive stupid laws…

 

…like people in your native, crime-ridden Chicago are, and like you want the rest of us to be.

 

(Snip)