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.

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.”

  • Mossy Feathers (She/They)@pawb.social
    171·
    8 months ago

    Yeah, seriously. No one’s saying you can’t carry a gun while out in the field, just that your gun should be locked up when you’re not using/carrying it. What an idiotic argument. Granted, he’s a Republican, so what do you expect, but it’s hard to believe he couldn’t come up with a better argument.

    • evranch
      22·
      8 months ago

      Really, only the cow part is idiotic. Here in Canada, where all guns are supposed to be locked up all the time, every rural home still has a gun propped up somewhere out of sight for predator and pest control. When you look out the window and see a coyote dragging down a lamb or chomping on one of the barn cats you don’t have time to go unlock your rifle from the safe. I’ve grabbed my gun many times for this exact purpose. I don’t keep it loaded, but the magazine is nearby and I slap it in and open fire.

      But the cow thing is truly idiotic. Why wouldn’t he just say exactly what I said?