Call to Action

Friday and Saturday were the days for anger.

Today is the day to turn that anger into something else.

We had an illuminating talk with Joel Rosenberg, concealed carry activist, trainer and author, on the NARN show last Saturday. Truth be told, I should probably apologize to the rest of the guys in the studio; so animated was I over the subject of Dean Johnson's seeming double-cross of Steve Sviggum and the Star/Tribune's egregious lying, I practically turned the first half hour of the show into a monologue.

The situation, in the short term, is difficult but - and Rosenberg did a lot to help me get my bearings back on this - far from impossible, maybe even 50-50 this session.

If you're an MPPA supporter, you need to get to Joel's site, as well as to call your Senator (and especially Dean Johnson) with a polite, reasoned message:

• The Personal Protection Act passed via a vote of the people's elected representatives two years ago.
• The law, in over a year in effect, caused no problems whatsoever.
• This is the same precise experience had in each of the nearly three dozen other states that have adopted shall-issue laws - and none have ever repealed one.

The Senate Democrats' plan is to bottle this bill up in Metrocrat-controlled committees so that it dies in this session - the exact way it did in every session from '97 to '02, even though it had all the votes it needed to pass (as indeed it does now, in both houses, by a significant margin).

Let's get cranking. We have a democracy to save.

Posted by Mitch at May 2, 2005 05:27 AM | TrackBack