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Slowly the logical conclusion sank in. If firearms are banned on these premises, then they must not be banned in other places.

This guy is working slower than a crackhead with a jonesing.

So that no one misses the point, the Legislature has also turned Minnesota into what is called a “shall require” state.

The author AND his editors are ignoramuses.

The way I see it, Minnesota is only one step away from requiring every citizen to carry a gun and use it when provoked.

This man's mental confusion, as evidenced by his following thought "The criminals know they’re not supposed to have them but find them easy to get" is the definition of cultural victimhood.

A person carrying a concealed weapon cannot be banned from a public building, even if it’s a library full of kids.

Accepting the fact that criminials can get their hands on guns, including nutjobs intent on Dunblane style massacres in libraries full of kids and bunnywabbits, he doesn't believe the parents of the kids should be able to shoot the nutjob befoer the kids are the victims and the parents mourners.

Yet it isn’t possible for a member of the public to find out who has received a permit and may, in fact, be packing heat.

This "man" accepts the fact that criminals will know where to find guns illegally, goes on to blame the NRA for criminals acquiring guns, then demands the necessary solution is an internet searchable database of every CCW gun in the state. Maybe he believes "members of the public" and "criminals" are mutually exclusive classifications?

But Minnesota? I grew up thinking of Minnesota as a socially progressive state. After all, it was home of the D.F.L. — the Democratic Farmer Labor Party — and a place where local control and common sense had strong roots.

1. this man equates socially progressive political parties as centralized bureaucracies that keep the citizenry defenseless, and calls this local control. His common sense, as he explicitly states, is a stripping of the individual the right to self defense in the name of the common good. "A nation is formed by the willingness of each of us to share in the responsibility for upholding the common good." Congresswoman Barbara Jordan

Every concealed weapon, with very few exceptions, is a blow against the public safety. The new gun laws in Minnesota take away local discretion over concealed-weapon permits, and they cost the local authorities plenty too.

Mr. Lott has proven this oft repeated notion false. John Lott doesn't have a column in the NYTimes, so he actually doesn't exist.

The last three paragraphs are some wild eyed speculation. It's a really sad piece, the "shall require" mistake sets the tone, the ignorant preaching to the dwindling number of adherents to the victimhood cult of the "socially progressive" state.