In Minnesota, there is a duty to retreat when reasonably possible before using a deadly weapon. However, the new state Supreme Court ruling says there’s a duty to retreat before even showing a weapon. The Minnesota Supreme Court upheld two second-degree assault with a deadly weapon convictions against a man with a machete who was threatened by a man with a knife at a Minneapolis light rail station.
Tim Walz’s Minnesota Guts Self-Defense Laws
The state’s highest court also set a new precedent involving Minnesota’s self-defense laws. In a split decision, the court wrote that long-standing law says that a person needs to retreat when reasonably possible, even when facing bodily harm, and that security video contradicted the man with the machetes claim that it was not reasonably possible for him to do so.
According to the vice president of the Minnesota Gun Owners Caucus, the ruling means anyone who uses a deadly weapon in self-defense must look for a reasonable way to retreat before even showing a weapon, a force option.
In a dissenting opinion, one of the justices wrote that the court’s decision is unprecedented in the United States and flies in the face of human nature.
As the vice president of the MGOC says, “In the moment, most people don’t have time to look for a way to retreat before grabbing or at least showing their weapon to defend themselves. I don’t think that this is a practical way for a self-defense encounter to unfold if you’re confronted with a threat. You’re going to want to mitigate that threat as soon as possible.”
This precedent could affect anyone with a permit to carry in Minnesota and change the way permit-to-carry trainers teach about the state’s defense laws.
It’s absolutely ridiculous. They don’t want people to defend themselves.
They Want Justice Stevens’ Insane Views to Become the Law of the Land
Retired Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens says your right to self-defense in your own home should be limited to a cell phone “at your bedside.”
“Maybe you have some kind of constitutional right to have a cell phone with a pre-dialed 911 in the number at your bedside, and that might provide you with a little better protection than a gun, which you’re not used to using,” he said to laughter, according to an Oct. 16 article by Reuters.
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Minnesota has become the land of 10,000 loonies.
For what this is worth,
In the 80s I was hired by 3M here in Quebec, they sent me for training at 3M in Minnesota,
I was a repairman for what they called ” reprographic equipment” those big machine that turned a microflim into a 3 feet by 4 feet print
there was no internet back then but I managed to find stuff I could read about Minnesota, as I was curious.
It said Minnesota had one of the lowest population of blacks and one of the lowest crime rates.
Minnesota was considered very white, very conservative and ” stuck in the 50s”
One article was saying that Both Prince ( the musician-signer) and Jessica Lange ( actress) were from Minnesota but had left it because it was “too square, too straight “, it was stifling or suffocating or some such word, suppressing their artistic expression…
Well here we are 40 years later, and Minnesota is no longer ” too square, too straight”, it is a disaster , an orgy of woke leftism !!!!!
Reality says… When seconds count the cops are minutes away..
Minnesota, land of American Islam. Just allow attackers to take you down without a fight. I bet most people who carry a gun would be afraid to point it at someone and shoot, so just tuck your tail between your legs and run like hell.
Judges and politicians should lead the way by ridding themselves of all defense weapons except a cell phone with 911 on speed dial. It would show faith in the laws as they believe them to be AND would save the tax payer by not having protective details for any judge or politician
911 only for all that pass judgment