At lunch yesterday, I read a short blurb in the St. Paul Pioneer Press that a man whose car had been hit by a light rail train in Minneapolis had died of his injuries.
Light rail is one of the holy grails of the modern liberal. It is everything he desires: urban planning, environmentally-friendly, slightly European-feeling, and it expands government. The fact that it is a billion-dollar boondoggle that will never pay for itself is of no concern to the proponent of light rail. In Minnesota, we currently have one light rail line that runs from downtown Minneapolis to the airport and eventually to the Mall of America in Bloomington.
Around the time light rail was being approved, there was a bill for introducing conceal carry in Minnesota. Conceal carry is something that every modern liberal hates: weapons, individualism, putting people in control of their own defense, and very non-European feeling. The hysterical liberals in newspapers, on tv, and on radio bemoaned the lawlessness that would be unleashed in our state and all the gun deaths that would result. But the most devastating thing to the liberal was that it made them feel so Texan (bad!) and not so European (good!).
A conceal carry bill was passed and was signed into law in April 2003. A little over one year later, in June 2004, the one light rail line in Minnesota opened between downtown Minneapolis and the Mall of America. Since April 2003, there have been 0 gun deaths in Minnesota committed by citizens with conceal carry permits. Contrarily, since June 2004, there have been 6 deaths caused by light rail trains. Liberals love to say that conceal carry is a “public health issue.” Would it be uncharitable to say that light rail is a much greater public health menace than conceal carry?
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
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