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.

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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.”

    • FuglyDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
      37·
      8 months ago

      Speaking as a Minnesotan… Limmer is not sane. most the republicans here aren’t.

      Remember the whole “Schools are providing litter boxes for kids who identify as furries” sound bite thing?

      Yeah. that was literally the sanest candidate they could find to go against Gov. Walz.

  • Plopp@lemmy.worldEnglish
    19·
    8 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.

  • EdibleFriend@lemmy.worldEnglish
    19·
    8 months ago

    How in the ever living fuck is that even relevant? Even if there are killer cows out there… You would have unlocked your gun to bring with you when you were going to be in that dangerous situation.

  • MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    12·
    8 months ago

    The only thing worse than a Southern Republican is a Northern Republican. Apparently, the party must resort to abducting old white men from the dementia ward, lobotomizing them, and putting them on an amphetamine drip before they find something “suitable” to put behind a podium.

  • Rob Bos@lemmy.caEnglish
    11·
    8 months ago

    I find a good shovel adequate defense against a cow. And don’t be in a situation where there’s an angry bull. Shockingly easy to avoid that.

  • taanegl@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    8 months ago

    …you have to be fucking kidding me. KILLER COWS?!? What, the excuse well runeth dry? What’s next, terrorist immigrants from the land of imagination?

  • Mostly_Gristle@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    8 months ago

    People say such absolutely ridiculous things on both sides of the gun debate I sometimes find myself wondering if a bunch of the pro-gun politicians aren’t secretly on the payroll of anti-gun lobbyists and if a lot of the anti-gun politicians aren’t secretly getting kickbacks from the firearms industry every time they say something that causes a big spike in sales.

    Meanwhile, every time some wingnut says something stupid like this it gets that much harder to have a calm and rational discussion about this stuff.

  • archomrade [he/him]@midwest.socialEnglish
    7·
    8 months ago

    Lol this guy represents maple grove? The one with Arbor lakes mall that has the Dave & Busters and Benihana?

    The closest thing to a cattle ranch in maple grove is the Chuck and Don’s pet store, but I don’t think they have any cows there.