Nonsense. His background was published on every MSM I saw as soon as it became known. The Minneapolis authorities are being slow to release information.

In fairytale land maybe.  They've never chosen to do so...because they don't have to and there's no incentive for them to do so.  Hence, why this thread exists.  I'm thinking many people here don't even think a problem exists.

How come we never hear of "Knife Crime" or Fist Crime" or "Baseball Bat Crime"?

Welfare was never intended to be a career goal.  Yet we now have second and third generations that have known nothing but welfare.

Of course they do! But among those who have problems with impulse control, or outright mental illness, a few will still resort to guns under certain circumstances. And the stresses of big city life are likelier to "breed" (poor choice of words, but I can't think of a better word right now) people like that, and trigger them (no pun intended) to act.

Why is there so little gun crime here in Vermont and so much in, say, DC? Surely it's not BECAUSE anyone could be carrying here. It's because in this largely rural environment, people aren't so much at each other's throats, there is more of a sense of community and it's much less common for disputes to rise to that level.

Note that I'm talking about domestic and neighbor-on-neighbor gun crime... obviously, gangs are a MUCH bigger problem in places like DC too. But even domestic gun violence is lower here.