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February 10, 2004

About Time

About Time - Twin Cities writer and activist Joel Rosenberg finally took the plunge and has a blog. Actually, it looks like it's been around for a while, but I'm finally aware of it.

Like much of Rosenberg's writing, it's a wealth of information about concealed carry, the Second Amendment, the absurdity of the "logic" and turpidity of so many reform opponents.

My favorite passage in his recent, deliciously sardonic post about an idiotic letter to the PiPress:

Anybody who followed the passage of the MCPPA with any attention at all knows that it wasn't the NRA or some sort of amorphous "gun lobby" that brought us this; it was a grass-roots effort, spearheaded in the legislature by Lynda Boudreau and Pat Pariseau, and in the public debate by a bunch of folks with not much in common but a desire to repeal Minnesota's antiquated, bureaucrats-know-best carry law: GOCRA/CCRN. It was people like Joe, Tim, David, Alfred, Lonn, John, Marilyn and hundreds of others -- even, to a much lesser extent, me -- writing letters, making phone calls, showing up to testify at hearings, and so forth. It's not a well-financed lobbying campaign like "Citzens for a Safer Minnesota"; the money that funded CCRN's mailings was contributed in ones and fives and tens by people stopping by at Alfred's table at, literally, hundreds of gun shows.


It was as classic a grass-roots organizing effort as ever there was. "Gun lobby," pfui. She might as well blame it on the boogeyman.

It's on my blogroll. If you care about the endless fight over victim disarmament, it should be on your frequent read list.

Posted by Mitch at February 10, 2004 05:00 AM
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