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• "I don't think we will ever have to worry about that if the bad guy knows there is someone in here who could shoot back," Olson said.
• And, Rep. Stace Nelson, R-Fulton, cautioned lawmakers from his own experience that attacks do take place.
• "Gun-free zones only protect those who don't respect the law," Nelson said.
• Opponents argued it would give public officials a special privilege and that elected officials don't necessary carry identification for their office.
• During a committee hearing earlier this week, representatives of law enforcement agencies, lawyers, local governments and the courts made the same point. They testified that law enforcement officials would struggle to identify who was allowed to have concealed weapons in the Capitol and county courthouses.
• Rep. Melissa Magstadt, R-Watertown, felt local officials should have had more say in this legislation.
• "I think this needs to go back to the conversation table," Magstadt said. "I will vote against this bill today, but I am not against this concept."
• Republican Rep. Anne Hajek, of Sioux Falls, spoke in opposition, and said she doesn't "feel unsafe here."
• In Thursday's session, a few lawmakers -- including Rep. Jim Peterson, D-Revillo -- mentioned their NRA membership while declaring opposition to the bill.
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• MINOT, N.D. (AP) -- A former college football coach who was cleared in a child pornography investigation in Minnesota is the new head coach at Minot State.
• Todd Hoffner leaves Minnesota State-Mankato to become the 19th head coach for the Beavers.
• "It was important for me to get closer to my roots," Hoffner said in a news release, adding that his family is just 90 miles away. "And I wanted to stay at the scholarship level that we are at."
• He did not return calls to The Associated Press seeking comment.
• His wife, Melodee Hoffner, told the Star Tribune that her husband has applied for dozens of football coaching jobs, but even old colleagues wouldn't invite him to work at football camps last summer.
• "I have not seen him happy in almost two years," Melodee Hoffner said.
• Todd Hoffner was charged with possession of child pornography in August 2012 after school officials found videos of his naked children on his work-issued cellphone, which he had turned in to be repaired. A judge cleared him three months later, ruling that the short videos of his children acting silly after a bath were not

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