(MN) City woman takes on state’s new gun law

[Drizzt]

City woman takes on state’s new gun law

By Harvey T. Rockwood
Sun Newspapers
(Created 6/5/03 8:48:05 AM)


A Bloomington woman is leading a regional charge against the new Minnesota law that allows most people the privilege of carrying a concealed handgun.

The new legislation took effect last week amid controversy between supporters and opponents of the law.

But Kim Stanley of Bloomington said she believes Minnesotans will demand the law be reversed once they learn the dangers it presents.

She is part of a group that will meet next week to plan a rally against the law in Gov. Tim Pawlenty’s hometown of Eagan. Conceal carry opponents contend Pawlenty signed the measure without weighing its consequences.

Stanley rolled out a petition drive last week aimed at getting the law nullified.

“As soon as I heard about it I started this petition,†Stanley said. “Everybody’s signing it. A lot of people don’t want this law.

“I am a mother afraid for my life and my children’s lives,†she said.

Several church groups have already come out against the law and one, Edina Lutheran Church, has filed a lawsuit to get the wording of some sections changed. Stanley said opponents have at least one ally within the administration – Public Safety Director Charlie Weaver.

“He sees some really bad things in this law,†she said.

Stanley said she plans to meet Tuesday, June 10, with members of groups such as the Million Mom March of Minnesota, Southeast Minnesota Alliance for Peacemaking and Citizens for a Safer Minnesota, all groups favoring tighter restrictions on gun ownership. The meeting was tentatively set for 2 p.m. at the office of Citizens for a Safer Minnesota in St. Paul.

She said the group will begin planning an anti-conceal carry rally in Eagan for mid-summer, possibly around July 4.

“It’s Republican territory and that’s Pawlenty’s hometown,†Stanley said. She said the groups are looking for a park suitable for a rally.

The coalition of anti-gun forces also will begin planning a strategy for the next legislative session, Stanley said.

Stanley said she’s aware that none of the 34 states that previously approved conceal carry laws have repealed them.

“I think that’ll be different in this state,†she said. “They jumped the gun on this and they already know they made a mistake.â€

http://www.mnsun.com/story.asp?city=Bloomington&story=114151

 

[DonP]

Is it my imagination?

Or do the fine folks in MN have more than their usual share of doom and gloom types decrying the new shall issue law?

They all sound like they can hardly wait for a tragedy to blame on the new shall issue laws.

Or is this all a part of the liberals losing control of the state in general and gradually going nuts trying to figure out how to regain control?

That woman says that the state jumped the gun and the law should be immediately repealed. Why, because she is upset about it.

Good luck up there with these whacko's.

Don P.

 

[El Tejon]

Don, if Minnesota has won, Illinois can win!

 

[whoami]

“I think that’ll be different in this state,†she said. “They jumped the gun on this and they already know they made a mistake.â€

...and protesting the law before the ink is even dry on it, without even bothering to see whether or not your psychotic delusion of the effects will come to pass (it won't) is NOT jumping the gun?

 

[P95Carry]

OMG ...... it's the ''rivers of blood'' brigade ..... hell - tell em to look at the records of all the other CCW states and then decide if they need to fuss. Paranoid, shallow-minded dorks.

Sheesh .... these people's heads should move from outa the warm dark place!

Sorry ... just drank some rant juice ....

 

[goalie]

Um, you are dead on in your assessment of the critical thinking skills of many Twin Cities residents. The sad part is, most of the people they quote or people I have talked to do not even realize that this does not change the requirements to BUY a gun, just to CARRY a gun. Oh, and we have been trying to change the law for over half a decade, that really is jumping the gun.

 

[campergeek]

...the new Minnesota law that allows most people the privilege of carrying a concealed handgun.

No comment necessary

Minnesotans will demand the law be reversed once they learn the dangers it presents.

I'm anxious to see her evidence.

 

[Zander]

“I am a mother afraid for my life and my children’s lives,†she said.

I suppose the fact [!] that thousands of Minnesotans have been carrying for years and there hasn't been one instance of a problem has escaped her keen intellect.

There just is no accounting for willful stupidity...

 

[jimpeel]

Their world looks far different when they view it through that little window in their bellybotton.

 

[Frohickey]

If I lived in Bloomington, Minnesota, where Kim Stanley is, I might be tempted to go up to her and say "Ms Stanley, you can rest assured that if you are being attacked by a rapist, and I happen to be in a position to help, that I will ask your permission first before I use my CCW against your attacker."

Stupid sheeple.

 

[dustind]

Do liberals ever get tired of being wrong?

I can say most of Minnesota is happy about the law, but boy do we have a few off the wall people. People that are way out of touch with reality, and don't bother to look up the facts, or even think before they speak, much less go on a crusade.

I apologize on behalf of some of the members of my state, they are not used to thinking, or acting on their own.

 

[SteelyDan]

The liberals in this state perceive the "conceal and carry" law as a real slap in the face, especially since they found out it's got several provisions that rarely appear in other states. They will NOT let go of this issue. They don't really care about the facts, they just hate the concept. Anyone who thinks the battle is over in MN is kidding themselves. And yeah, I hate to admit it, but I suspect some of the opposition would actually welcome an "incident" involving a new permittee, because it would be "proof" that they were right.

 

[Geech]

“I am a mother afraid for my life and my children’s lives,†she said.

You'd better buy a gun to protect them, then.

 

[Frohickey]

And yeah, I hate to admit it, but I suspect some of the opposition would actually welcome an "incident" involving a new permittee, because it would be "proof" that they were right.

Remember Barbara "MMM Speaker/Convicted Felon" Graham?

 

[DonP]

Illinois will get there some day...

...probably about two weeks after Daley chokes on a Maxwell Street Polish dog at one of his famous "fests" and they realize they can't elect his son to anything.

Then the city council will go up for grabs and the rest of the jackals will come out of their caves and the monolith that is Chicago will be fragmented.

Then the possibilty for re awakening the constitution on the second amendment and maybe even a real and honest government will emerge again.

Hey, it could happen.

Don P.

 

[spacemanspiff]

Ms Stanley, you can rest assured that if you are being attacked by a rapist, and I happen to be in a position to help, that I will ask your permission first before I use my CCW against your attacker."

strangely enough, a friend who lives in MD (yes, another hellhole of a state) said that she wouldnt want anyone but a LEO to step in with a firearm to prevent her from being attacked, since us lowly serfs have nowhere nears the training and precision with dem newfangled boomsticks.

wheres that puking similie? :banghead:

 

[P95Carry]

wheres that puking similie?

This one suit ya spiff??

 

[El Tejon]

space, not anywhere the training of mall ninjas? Did you ask that she read THR?

 

[Don Gwinn]

She is a ninny in fear of her shadow.

 

[jdege]

The liberals in this state perceive the "conceal and carry" law as a real slap in the face, especially since they found out it's got several provisions that rarely appear in other states. They will NOT let go of this issue.

They spent so much time screaming about things that were not in the bill that I don't think they even bothered to read what was actually in it.

The non-resident permit recognition they might have been able to get changed - they didn't even raise the issue. And so now Wisconsin residents can carry in Minnesota on their Florida permits. Even Minnesota residents can carry in Minnesota on their Florida permits.

 

[Standing Wolf]

...he new Minnesota law that allows most people the privilege of carrying a concealed handgun...

Leftist parasites believe their irrational hoplophobia trumps America's civil rights. In this, as in so much else, they're rock-solid wrong—and Minnesota's leftist extremists are the worst sore losers of all, apparently.

 

[SteelyDan]

Frohickey, no, I don't remember. Who was/is Barbara Graham?

 

[DonP]

I could be wrong but ...

Graham was a local leader of the MMM's somewhere back around DC and was a big speaker at their Washignton Rally.

Her gang member son was shot on a street corner by a gang banger and she got a gun (pistol) and shot another local gangsta type and paralyzed him from the waist down, IIRC.

Only problem, it was the wrong guy. The MMM's stood behind her for about 10 minutes then they all quietly backed aways last time I looked. They get all upset when you bring her name up and try to change the subject as if she was never a member or leader.

At least that's as much of the story as I remember. Oh and that not one of the big papers that coevered the rally mentione dit beyond page 23 or so.

Don P.

 

[spacemanspiff]

not anywhere the training of mall ninjas? Did you ask that she read THR?

a truly futile endeavor, she visited olegs website and called it 'propoganda'. she considered it lies and half truths much like what the NRA preaches.

in one of her last communicades, she said she didnt want to discuss/debate/argue the gun issue anymore. oh yeah, shes a member of the ACLU. come to think of it, why am i friends with her in the first place????

 

[El Tejon]

Doesn't want to argue? That means she had to confront her own irrational thought and did not like it. Good for you, sir. Keep at them.