Zaynab Mohamed proves that it's impossible to outlaw foolishness

I was about to say that there should be a law against foolishness until I read this article. Long ago, my dad told me that "there's no use in making something idiot-proof. They'll just build a better idiot." My dad died half a century ago so that's how long ago it's been. He isn't around but he described Sen. Zaynab Mohamed perfectly. The Alpha News article linked to above opens by saying "Democrats in the Minnesota Senate held a marathon committee hearing on Friday where they advanced a major gun control bill to the next stage of the legislative process. That bill, SF 3655, would ban the possession, sale, transfer, or ownership of a 'semiautomatic military-style assault weapon.' The specific language of SF 3655 would ban a wide swath of firearms including the AR-15, the most popular firearm in America."

The article continues, saying "Authored by DFL Sen. Zaynab Mohamed, SF 3655 would also ban what it calls 'large-capacity magazine[s].' The bill defines a 'large-capacity magazine' as 'any ammunition feeding device with the capacity to accept more than ten rounds.'" If you think this bill doesn't stand a chance, you're right. It doesn't. That isn't the worst part, though. Check this out:

Under Mohamed’s bill, current owners of guns prohibited by SF 3655 would need to alert the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA) that they own one of those firearms, obtain a "certification of ownership," and renew that certificate every three years.

The bill does allow an individual to inherit one of the would-be banned guns if they pursue the certification process. In short, Mohamed’s bill would require Minnesotans to either get rid of any firearms banned by SF 3655 or register them with the BCA.

If this bill was signed into law by Gov. Walz, which won't happen because it won't get a hearing the House, the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals would strike it down virtually immediately. After that, if Sen. Mohamed wanted to appeal it to the U.S. Supreme Court, I'd bet that the High Court wouldn't grant cert. In other words, this bill is, at best, on life support. Tom Hauser's report from the Minnesota State Capitol was long on emotional appeals but short on the Constitution:

It isn't that I think that these students' lives are without value. They aren't. It's that we ignore mental health warning signs or we're too intimidated by the situation to make that call for help that would've saved a life. Isn't it time we taught adults to say something if they see something? Why haven't we learned that tragedies are the price we pay for not wanting to get involved? Let's get kids the help they need before there's a tragedy. Let's be the adults that live by the Bible.

Pretending that assault weapons are the problem is fiction. They aren't the problem. Just ask the Lakeville,MN, school system.s