After Minneapolis mass shooting, two Minnesota leaders push for gun reform

NPR ^ | 8/28/25 | Destinee Adams , Michel Martin , Leila Fadel

[DallasBiff]

Two children, ages 8 and 10, were killed in a mass shooting on Wednesday morning while gathered for Mass at a Minneapolis Catholic school to mark the first week of classes. Seventeen others were wounded, including 14 children between the ages of 6 and 15.

Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara identified 23-year-old Robin Westman as the shooter. Westman was later found dead in the back of the church from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Authorities are still investigating her motive.

The shooting is renewing debates over America's gun laws. And two of Minnesota's prominent leaders, both Democrats, are seizing the moment to push for change. Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey and Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison are proposing different approaches.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; Politics/Elections; US: Minnesota
KEYWORDS: banglist; destineeadams; leilafadel; michelmartin; minnesota; npr; ofcoursetheydo; shooting

[No name given]

And sickening!

[Tommy Revolts]

Doesn't Minnesota prohibit possession of certain "semiautomatic military-style assault weapons"?

Asking for a friend.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

all gun problems were solved in 1968. The democrats said so!

“Today we begin to disarm the criminal and the careless and the insane. All of our people who are deeply concerned in this country about law and order should hail this day.”-— Lyndon Johnson signing the 1968 gun control act into law.

And Thomas J. Dodd, who wrote the 1968 gun control act using the 1938 Nazi Weapons Law as a pattern...

“No one can predict how many lives will be spared because of this bill, but, if the bloody record of our yesterdays is any measure, millions of future Americans will live to enjoy the promise of many peaceful tomorrows.

I am grateful to have had the opportunity to play a part in this great moment in our time.”— Thomas J. Dodd on passage of the 1968 Gun control act.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Why the democrats demand gun registration even today...

......in 1940, the New York Times reported that the French were deprived of rights such as free speech and firearm possession just as the Germans had been. Frenchmen who failed to surrender their firearms within 24 hours were subject to the death penalty.

“No wonder that in 1941, just days before the Pearl Harbor attack, Congress reaffirmed Second Amendment rights and prohibited gun registration. In 1968, bills to register guns were debated, with opponents recalling the Nazi experience and supporters denying that the Nazis ever used registration records to confiscate guns.”

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

The Romans had enough sense to know “The sword does not kill. It is a tool in the killer’s hand”-Seneca.

[cowboyusa]

No. We need leftist reform. Sending them in cages out of the US.

[Lurker]

Okay. No Guns For Trannies.

Try that on for size.

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Pavlov’s dogs.

[Vision]

Better, push for adults to grow up and accept reality in Minneapolis. No more pretending men are woman, that the mentally ill should be allowed, even encouraged to mutilate themselves. Frankly this blood is on Democrat hands.