Fear not PoE readers, your faithful guide has not abandoned ye. It's been a crazy weekend filled with lots of drinking, working, smoking, and otherwise unhealthy activity.
Saturday night was 'Workies Night Out' in celebration of Amy's 27th birthday. Incidentally, I will be turning exactly 27 years old tomorrow. I'll spare you the Saturday night event recap. Suffice to say I may have over-extended myself.
***Murderapolis***
My fair city used to have the shameful reputation of hosting more murders per capita than New York City. Thus the coincidentally funny nickname. The shamefulness of having more p/c murders than New York City is debatable. There are now something like 8 million residents in the New York metro area, so for NYC to have the highest p/c murder rate there must be a lot of killin's going on.
Minneapolis has cleaned up its image significantly, but now we've had a spree of gun violence that has people feeling less safe here in the grand middle west. Of course, the two recent shootings are only attracting attention because they occurred in places white people generally frequent. The violent crime rate in North Minneapolis could rise 500% and most people wouldn't notice, but that's a different conversation.
I saw Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Ryback walking the downtown streets Saturday night, after the Friday evening shooting, reminding us all that he thinks the city is perfectly safe. That's despite our State's conceal and carry law which allows residents to carry concealed weapons into places like Walk-Mart or St. Catherines of Eternity unless expressly prohibited.
Also, can we stop whining about it and just build the Twins a new stadium -- 11 years people, 11 years!
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They may or may not be the troublemakers. The point is, any law making it easier to carry a deadly weapon is dangerous and has dangerous consequences. Why does anyone need to take his gun to the supermarket? For protection? The idea that carrying a handgun somehow makes you safe is completely illogical.
The NRA loves to talk about the efficacy of guns in detering violent crimes, but look at their facts more closely. I think you will see plain as day that more guns = more gun deaths. Period. CCWs have essentially no effect on the homicide rate in states with the weakest gun control laws.
As if shooting a gun a couple of times in front of an instructor, paying the state some money, and passing a background check garunteed the compentency of individuals with CCWs. We have essentially the same system for issuing a driver's liscence, and there are still plenty of bad drivers.
Guns do not make people safe. I'm outraged that you might think differently.
happy birthday Dave
missed it by an hour though (dammit)
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