The campaign Minnesota desperately needs, Part IX

[It isn't a stretch to think that Minnesota desperately needs a campaign that drags it, kicking and screaming if needed, into the 21st century. A perfect example of this disgusting crisis-of-choice known as school shootings. I used to think that preventing school shootings was a bipartisan goal. I don't think that anymore, especially after watching Rep. Hudson's latest Closing Argument podcast. During a floor session, Rep. Hudson asked Rep. Engen about Rep. Engen's school safety initiative based on Lakeville's system. Rep. Engen said that the system in Lakeville had installed brought the NRA and Moms Demand Action together. That's the rarest of rarities. Then Moms Demand Action withdrew their letter of support when political pressure increased. Rep. Engen then said that he was told that someone didn't want him to gain a political victory. That's disgusting!

I've been writing about the need to push MNSCU into the 21st century since 2012. Back then, MNSCU was 20 years old. When the bill was passed, the dot-com boom was still 5 years in the future. Al Gore (I'm kidding here) had just barely started inventing the World Wide Web. Think of how far we've come since the World Wide Web (that's what it was called then) was invented. Since the "Web was invented by English computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee while at CERN in 1989 and opened to the public in 1993," it "was conceived as a 'universal linked information system'." Why would we think that government, which moves at a snail's pace, can build something efficient like most modern businesses?

We're often told that "MNSCU trains the workforce of the future." How can it do that from a brick-and-mortar campus?

Here's the Closing Argument video:

Remember that when you vote this November.

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