Tuesday, February 12, 2013
Sheriff Joe Hagerty said missing information in criminal and mental health databases poses a risk in preventing people who would abuse guns from obtaining them.
Wright County Sheriff Joe Hagerty talked about his stance on the gun control issue with the Wright County Tea Party Patriots last week, before a crowd of more than 70 concerned gun owners from St. Michael and the surrounding area. "The second amendment is pretty clear: right to bear arms," Hagerty said. "And we take that seriously. His stance is the same as that of the Minnesota Sheriff's Association and the Hennepin County Sheriff, which was announced at a press conference a few weeks ago: access to guns is the problem, not the type of firearms or number of magazines people are allowed to purchase, he said. "I'm as concerned as anyone with what they (lawmakers) term as assault rifles," Hagerty said. "In Wright County, I can't think of a…
Monday, February 4, 2013
Sheriff Joe Hagerty of St. Michael will speak Tuesday night about local and national developments on gun ownership.
Wright County Sheriff Joe Hagerty, who is also a resident of St. Michael, is scheduled to speak about gun control and the Second Amendment Tuesday night at a Wright County Tea Party Patriots meeting. The meeting is open to the public and is scheduled for 7 p.m. at the Buffalo Municipal Airport meeting room. The group is hosting Hagerty as a featured speaker at their monthly meeting. Hagerty "will be speaking on recent developments concerning firearm possession at both the local and national levels pertaining to the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution that protects the right of the people to keep and bear arms," said a Wright County Tea Party Patriots written statement. The meeting will also feature a question and answer session …
Friday, September 28, 2012
With five dead after a workplace shooting in the Bryn Mawr neighborhood, we're wondering how Twin City area residents feel about gun ownership vs. public-safety concerns.
Editor's note: This is an update of a poll that first appeared this summer, after the Aurora, CO, movie theater shooting. The massacre at Columbine High School. The shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. The violence at Virginia Tech. The rampage at a theater in Aurora, CO. And now, the Twin Cities area has a tragedy of its own: The Thursday afternoon deaths of five people, including the shooter—apparently a man who had just lost his job at the firm where the violence took place. Incidents of gun violence often dominate the news, and after every such incident, the debate begins anew: Should federal and state governments make it more difficult for people to get their hands on guns? The issue tends to divide Americans right down the middle; in…
JAL
7:34 pm on Tuesday, February 12, 2013
Thank you Sheriff Hagerty. I know that there is a disconnect between the information in the NICS system and mental health data. The BCA does not collect mental health data, only criminal history data. The query system at the BCA uses a "sound-x" recognition system. That system is able to get information on people whose names sound similar when spoken. No data base is fool proof and is only as … more ›