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James Thompson

Rochester, Minnesota
Commenter for
1 year 4 weeks

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Posted on 02/14/13 at 05:48 pm in response to The culture war is real

Connecticut's gun laws appear to be among the most restrictive in the US. For overview, browse informative tables on the Wiki, "Gun laws in the United States by state". Gun-related deaths for years prior to our Dec 14 tragedy were slightly lower than in most other states. Today I read ABC's reporting on a manuscript from a pro-gun control group that attempts to correlate state's gun laws with 2009-2010 gun deaths (supposably the newest available data). This effort, admittedly from a pro-...

Posted on 04/20/12 at 03:02 pm in response to The Minnesota Voter ID Fraud: Is a sucker really born every minute?

I agree with Richard. The required costs seem too high for a voting issue I've not seen. Truthfully, I wish we'd add this amount of money or even more spending towards early childhood education throughout MN, a real investment.

However, I think the real rationale for this picture ID amendment is related to a strong dislike of same-day voter registration. I point to rather "hard" data MINNPOST recently published that maps precincts with high (>40%) same-day registrations in 2008...