In the past, we’ve spent some time beating up the group “Minnesota Gun Rights” – a group based in Iowa, affiliated with the National Association of Gun Rights. NAGR’s affiliates nationwide have a fairly cohesive strategy:
- Lead with a lot of no-compromise rhetoric – often on non-issues – on cheap social media.
- Use that rhetoric to raise a lot of money.
- Claim credit for other groups’ work to raise more money.
We see this yet again this cycle.
MGR is flogging this ad on social media:
With this caption:
Senator Rod Skoe voted
⛔AGAINST
APOLOGIZE, Sen. Skoe!
Now, Rod Skoe is a DFLer – but he’s about as outstate a DFLer as you can get. He’s been solidly pro-2nd-Amendment. He’s one of the linchpins of the gun movement’s bipartisanship (outside the 494-694 ring) in this state. He’s one of the good guys, and always has been.
Oh, yeah – and there never has been a vote on “Constitutional Carry” (which would make the 2nd Amendment your carry permit) on the floor of the Minnesota Senate. Or, to the best of my recollection, the House. A quixotic Constitutional Carry bill from Brandon Peterson died in committee, I think, last session – but that was it.
If Minnesota Gun Rights says it, its probably false.
Stuff like this makes me wonder if MGR and NAGR aren’t cover/shadow organizations really run by the left, in order to make small crises happen so that the real human rights groups have to expend their time and treasure cleaning up messes like this. I absolutely would not put it past them.
I don’t think it wise to belong to a group called NAGR. Just try to pronounce it. It suggests a couple of things to me, and neither one is complimentary. That’s something to think about when devising an acronym for your up-and-coming organization. Maybe they should have gone with DUMAS or ASOLE …