Wednesday, April 26, 2006
Minneapolis: Second-Hand Smoke=Bad; Criminals With Guns? Feh!
The current issue of Rake, a monthly magazine of St. Paul and Minneapolis, looks at who are the legal gun owners of Minneapolis. It's quite good, albeit a tad bit wordy, but it does tell us who buys guns legally, for self-defense, the instructors who conduct classes for those seeking permits for conceal/carry, and the slow demise of gun shops in the metropolitan area.
But it's the following paragraphs that jumped out at me:
It seems like the City Czars have conveniently forgotten - or deliberately choose to ignore - the fact the criminals don't purchase their hand guns legally, let alone buy them at a gun shop.
A law abiding citizen can no longer legally purchase a gun in the city limits of Minneapolis. But if you frequent the right bars you can likely hook up with someone who will sell you one in the alley.
But hey-you won't have to breathe any second-hand smoke while you're in that bar. But the trade-off is, depending on the bar, you may wind up with a .45 slug in your chest.
Kudos to the Czars of Minneapolis taking second-hand smoke out of the bars while leaving illegal guns in the hands of criminals in the street. By the way, Mr. Koscielski is the creator of the famous "Murder-apolis" T-shirts. A name befitting the city and its ruling Czars.
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Additional Reading: Blue Star Chronicles
But it's the following paragraphs that jumped out at me:
The city of Minneapolis has no shops that actually sell guns. The last gun shop in Minneapolis [is] owned by Mark Koscielski and his partner Barbara Bergstrom. They don't sell guns in the store because Minneapolis zoning regulations don't permit guns to be sold at Koscielski's locations. In fact, Minneapolis zoning regulations don't permit a gun shop to operate anywhere in Minneapolis, according to Koscielski. He only sells the guns displayed at the store at gun shows.
"Minneapolis has the idea that, if they zone gun shops out of existence, there will be no more guns," [says Koscielski].
It seems like the City Czars have conveniently forgotten - or deliberately choose to ignore - the fact the criminals don't purchase their hand guns legally, let alone buy them at a gun shop.
"City people are the victims of crimes. Since the city has put me out of business, all they have done is make the prices higher at other gun shops. That just makes it harder for city people who need protection to afford guns," says Koscielski.
A law abiding citizen can no longer legally purchase a gun in the city limits of Minneapolis. But if you frequent the right bars you can likely hook up with someone who will sell you one in the alley.
But hey-you won't have to breathe any second-hand smoke while you're in that bar. But the trade-off is, depending on the bar, you may wind up with a .45 slug in your chest.
Kudos to the Czars of Minneapolis taking second-hand smoke out of the bars while leaving illegal guns in the hands of criminals in the street. By the way, Mr. Koscielski is the creator of the famous "Murder-apolis" T-shirts. A name befitting the city and its ruling Czars.
©2006
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Additional Reading: Blue Star Chronicles
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Great article. I don't understand why ppl ignore the statistics. When law-abiding citizens have guns, it deters crimes.
When law abiding citizens don't have guns, it's open citizen,
I wrote an article about this a while back...
http://bluestarchronicles.com/2005/12/14/guns-in-kennesaw/
Keep up the good work!
When law abiding citizens don't have guns, it's open citizen,
I wrote an article about this a while back...
http://bluestarchronicles.com/2005/12/14/guns-in-kennesaw/
Keep up the good work!
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: 11:21 PM, April 26, 2006
: 11:21 PM, April 26, 2006
Thanks for the kind words Beth.
I read your post and have added it under my post as Additional Reading.
I too, cannot fathom how legal gun ownership by law-abiding people is so bashed upon, yet the criminals basically go unpunished, or "rehabilitated" time and time again, only then to return to the life of crime.
You keep up the good work as well!
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I read your post and have added it under my post as Additional Reading.
I too, cannot fathom how legal gun ownership by law-abiding people is so bashed upon, yet the criminals basically go unpunished, or "rehabilitated" time and time again, only then to return to the life of crime.
You keep up the good work as well!
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