Shot in the Dark

Category: Big Gun Control

  • Before The Door Swings Shut

    Michael Bloomberg and the Victim Disarmament movement are going to make as much hay as they can on the issue this year… …because  their highest profile group is fading away as we speak:  As it has broadened its attacks on lawmakers and Second Amendment groups like the National Rifle Association, former New York Mayor Michael…

  • Chanting Points Memo: Will Susan Perry Ever Stop Treating Readers Like Junior High Kids?

    There must be a legislative session coming up; the MinnPost – a local group-blog funded by liberals with deep pockets employing a rogue’s gallery of recycled local big-media people – is back on the gun beat. Last week, Susan Perry – their “consumer health reporter”, whose sloppy reporting on this subject we’ve repeatedly, even routinely,…

  • Divide And Conquer

    For years, I’ve been pointing out potemkin gun-grab groups – “Sportsmen for Gun Control” and the like. As Michelle Malkin notes, this is part of a larger strategy of t creating and/or funding “moderate” groups trying to create an impression of “moderate” “grass-roots” groundswell.  Of course we’ve seen this in Minnesota; in addition to the…

  • Scott Gillespie And The Catechism Of Uselessness

    Scott Gillespie of the Strib editorialized about the one-year anniversary of Sandy Hook. At least he ended the piece constructively: Those 26 faces will stay frozen, though. The children and their teachers, lost forever except in photos and home video. At least — if you believe it will help — say another prayer for them…

  • Gun Control In Minnesota: The Next Useless Wave

    In 2013, the grassroots of the Minnesota human rights movement – pro-Second-Amendment groups like GOCRA, the Twin Cities Gun Owners and other genuine grass-roots organizations – dealt the gun-grabbers a humiliating defeat.  Even though the anti-rights groups were lavishly funded, were supported by a purchased media narrative, and controlled the entire apparatus of Minnesota government,…

  • Gun Control PR Fail

    One of the tiny network of astroturf gun-grabber groups that’ve been trying to gut the Second Amendment in Minnesota is “Moms Demand Action”.   They are run by the rather overwrought-sounding Jane Kay. So far, their main contribution to the anti-human-rights effort has been to make Heather Martens and “Protect” MN sound almost reasonable.  Oh,…

  • The Many Lies of “Protect” MN, Part XXIV: “No Precedent!”

    I almost missed this one in the scrum of this past few weeks. A couple of weeks ago, when Representatives Paymar and Martens tried to jam down a ban on law-abiding citizens carrying their legally-permitted firearms in the Capitol complex, the Strib’s Abby Simons wrote the paper’s follow-up piece. It ended with a quote from…

  • The Potemkin Law

    Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: House extended ban on all-plastic guns for another 10 years.  Meaningless gesture.  Nobody gets shot with them, banning them won’t stop people from making them any more than banning cocaine stops people from using it.  Posturing to divert attention from real government failures in every other area. My grandson has…

  • The Many Lies (And Incoherencies) Of “Protect” MN, Part XXII: And Now They’re Coming For The First Amendment, Too!

    If you go to the little email widget that “Protect” Minnesota uses to try to spam legislators, you’ll see this text pre-filled.  I’ll highlight the money quote: Minnesota is one of only a few states that allows private firearms to be carried at the state Capitol without screening. In addition, committee chairs don’t have the…

  • The Many Lies Of “Protect” MN, Part XXI: It’s Go Time Again

    This email came out from Rep Heather Martens (DFLiar, HD66A) earlier this week: Dear Friend, Tomorrow at 10:30 am, the legislature’s committee on Capitol security will decide whether to continue to let people carry loaded guns in the Capitol. At a meeting earlier this month, it became clear that some concealed carry permit holders have…

  • Watching The AstroTurf Grow: “The New Dialog – We Talk, You Shut Up”

    This past Friday, I talked with Susie Jones, a reporter from WCCO Radio, about the Gun Grab Summit in North Minneapolis.  Now, I’m stuck in a bit of a conundrum, myself.  On the one hand, I do seek a civil, grown-up dialog.  As a gun owner, I have a vested interest in making sure my…

  • Watching The Astroturf Grow: Nuts and Bolts And More Nuts

    Today at 10AM, “Protect Minnesota” and a coalition of mostly white, mostly upper-middle-class, entirely left-of-center groups will meet, as we discussed yesterday, to try to figure out how to suppress the Second Amendment for the law-abiding Minnesotan.  Yesterday, we discussed the invitation – and how they’re really not interested in any solution that doesn’t involve…

  • Watching The Astroturf Grow: BTW

    In the previous piece about tomorrow’s “Gun Violence Prevention and Safe Communities summit “, I said “You’re invited”, sort of. It’s not actually true.  A number of members of the Twin Cities’ human rights community responded to the invitation on Facebook – because the meeting invitation noted that “We all have to step up”, and…

  • “Moms Want Action”: The Assault Spam Generator!

    We’ve written before about “Moms Demand Action”, the gun-grabber astroturf group financed entirely by liberals with deep pockets, and “run” (and, I suspect, almost solely inhabited) by Jane Kay, a woman whose hatred of the law-abiding firearms owner is so toxic as to frankly make me worry about her well-being. Mama Jane has a website,…

  • Because Racism

    Earlier this week, the Joyce Foundation collected another installment on its payment for the MinnPost’s PR services in pursuit of disarming the American people – in this case, a “Community Voices” column by by Rebecca Lowen and Doug Rossinow, who are listed as “history professors at Metro State”. Those who fail to learn from history,…

  • Rise Up, Peasants, And Defend The Plutocrats!

    I got this letter from “Protect Minnesota” recently.  “Protect Minnesota” was what Rep. Heather Martens (DFLiar – HD66A) had to rename “Citizens for a “Safer” Supine Minnesota” when it turned out her constant lying had damaged whatever credibility the old brand had. For those who’ve missed earlier installments of my coverage of Ms. Martens, here’s…

  • False Flag

    Speaking of gun rights – GOCRA sends an advisory: There is a new astroturf group calling themselves “American Rifle + Pistol Association.” (Here’s the URL — I recommend against giving them PageRank by posting it, though: http://amriflepistol.com/ ) And I won’t post it as a link, for precisely that reason. They are Obama-cheering, gun-control-supporting, MSNBC-watching,…

  • MinnPost: Heather Martens’ PR Firm

    The MInnPost is an organization I’d very much like to respect. It includes a raft of people I’ve considered good reporters. But over the course of Minnesota’s gun debate over this past session – brought on by Minnesota DFL legislators launching a raft of authoritarian gun bills, including at least one that called for confiscation…

  • The Exposed Id Of The Gun-Grabber Movement, Part MCCLXXV

    Jane Kay is the leader of “Moms Demand Action”, which is what they renamed the “Million Mom March” after they realized they actually had about two members in Minnesota.  While more objectively accurate – it might be better still to call it “Mom Demands Action” – I’m not sure if they considered that the name…

  • Doug Grow, Narrative-Fluffer

    I was down at the State Capitol yesterday for a press conference, as Representative Deb Hilstrom (DFL Brooklyn Park) introduced the gun bill/s we talked about yesterday. The bills, as we noted yesterday, would exert the state to solve actual problems – close gaps in the background check system, add mandatory penalties for using guns…

  • A Small Victory

    The “Million Mom March” – which, lately, draws fewer “moms” than pro-gun activists to its “events” – and “Citizens for a “Safer” Supine Minnesota, famous for never having once published a single fact in any of its press releases, and whose leader (and, let’s be honest, only member) Heather Martens has given this blog ten…

  • Chanting Points Memo: Beth Hawkins’ “Complete BS”

    If the Minnesoa left has a boogieman in this cycle, it’s the “American Legislative Exchanage Conference”, better known as ALEC. Founded and run by that other perennial boogieman of the hysterial left, Grover Norquist, ALEC pushes a conservative agenda by hosting get-togethers and suggesting legislation to – wait for it – legislators.  Mostly conservative ones.…