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.”

  • @Cruxifux@lemmy.worldEnglish
    52•8 months ago

    How do Americans have the dumbest people in their country making fucking laws?

    Has this guy ever set foot on a farm? Needing a gun with you always to prevent killer cows from killing your children is such a pants shittingly stupid thing to say.

    • @Omgpwnies@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7•8 months ago

      I grew up around cattle farms in Canada, and pretty much every farmer owned a rifle, but it was to protect the livestock from stuff like coyotes and other predators.