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Minnesota Republican legislator opposes safe gun storage law, citing killer cow threat (heartlandsignal.com)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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While arguing against a proposal for safe storage requirements for firearms, Minnesota state Sen. Warren Limmer (R-Maple Grove) contended that rural citizens need guns readily available to deal with cows.

“You even walk too close to a cow, and it’ll take you down and trample you into dust,” Limmer said. “Fumbling around with a lock while a cow or a bull or any other animal is going after your daughter or your son — you can’t fumble around with a key or try and find the lockbox or put your thumb on a biometric key of some sort in your home while the danger is outside. This bill puts those individuals in even more danger.”

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 7 months ago

So if you're aware of these beastly murderous cows and you're still walking right up to them for some reason that's kinda on you, and if it all of a sudden tramples you into dust, you're dead and can't use the gun anyway. And if your kid is being trampled, are you just going to aim towards the general direction of your kid and unload? Or maybe that doesn't matter because the kid has turned into dust already. I have a hard time following the logic here. But I wanna learn more about those spectacular cows he's dealing with.