A Minnesota Republican justified his opposition to new gun safety legislation this week by raising the specter of cows trampling unarmed Americans “into dust.” Heartland Signal reports that Republican Minnesota State Sen. Warren Limmer recently said that he could not in good conscience support a bill that would create statewide standards for the safe storage of firearms due to the impact it could have on farmers. “There’s another segment of our population that often requires guns in their occupation,” he said. “I’m talking about rural farm people that are living out in rural areas. They not on…