Minneapolis City Council to vote for banning assault weapons

According to this Fox9.com article, "The Minneapolis City Council’s Committee of the Whole voted unanimously to send a proposed gun control ordinance to the full council for a vote on Thursday. The ordinance would ban assault weapons, high-capacity magazines and ghost guns in the city."

Later in the article, it said "During a public hearing, almost everyone who spoke supported the ordinance. Many were parents of Annunciation School students, who are still struggling to cope after the August 2025 mass shooting. One man, who survived being shot four times at a birthday party, also spoke about being haunted by the experience. The hearing highlighted the emotional toll gun violence has taken on families and survivors in the community."

When a newspaper or news station refers to gun violence, it's said with the intent of portraying the gun, an inanimate object, as the villain in a crime. This isn't accidental. It's done to establish a bad guy for the situation. The firearm is inanimate. It's neither evil or virtuous.

By talking about gun violence, it doesn't talk about the person who handled the firearm. It turns out that there's a purpose behind that, too. By talking about firearm violence instead of the firearm owner, it makes it easier to villify the gun while letting the firearm owner off the hook a little bit. This is a bit confusing:

The city hopes that by passing the ordinance, it can send a message and lay groundwork in case cities are ever given more power to enforce their own gun laws in the future.

What we don't know:

It remains unclear how the city would enforce the ordinance since state law supersedes local rules, and there is no timeline for when or if cities might gain more authority over gun laws.

How is it that the article recognizes the supremacy of state law over city ordinances but doesn't notice the supremacy of the U.S. Constitution over everything? The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled 3 times in recent years on the Second Amendment. These aren't obscure rulings, either. Each is considered a landmark ruling. This is Fox9's video report:

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