Well, “Protect Minnesota” certainly seems happy – they broke out the “happy” stock photos yesterday!
So Protect Minnesota is happy about something that happened in California? Why is that?
Because they’ve got nothing to celebrate in Minnesota.
Bupkes.
Anti-gun Pro-criminal groups – “Protect” Minnesota and Moms Want Action, which are really nothing but puppets of Everytown, the group controlled and owned by New York plutocrat Michael Bloomberg – spent $800,000 in Minnesota this past cycle, most of it in the past month or so. They heavily targeted several seats: Roz Peterson in Burnsville, Sarah Anderson in Plymouth, and several seats in the purple-ish southwestern suburbs.
And they certainly had some effect…on Democrats, before the election. Rep. Walz, from Southern Minnesota’s 1st Congressional District, who has always made pro-gun noises commensurate with his largely rural district, felt comfortable (or arrogant?) enough circulate a photo of him with a couple of Bloomberg’s Dreamsicles the week before the election:
Walz posing with the Dreamsicles. Republicans in CD1 – make sure this photo comes back in 2018.
And at the end of the evening, all of that blood money got them…what?
They spent some of their money on Dave Hann – who was largely toppled by the changing demographics in his bluish-purple district and the mountain of indepedent cash. Their loss – and only tangentially related to the Bloomberg spending.
And one House seat – again, Bloomberg’s cash was only part of the flood of Democrat money that poured into the state…
…and only speed bumps on the way to the GOP flipping the Senate and extending its control of the House.
The Future: It’s not all god news.
“Protect” Minnesota and the Action Moms did, finally, learn something from the good guys. They did in fact spend some time and energy cultivating and training volunteers, and getting into political action. The years when we could count on Heather Martens’ incompetence and indolence to insulate Real Americans from reality are over.
We Real American joke – rightly – about the gun grabbers needing to pay for their volunteers…
…while thousands of us turn out on our own time and dime to make the magic happen. And it is a legitimate point of pride for the good guys.
But stop and think.
The pro-criminal groups have the money to spend, and they’re spending it like drunk Kardashians.
$800,000 to help, maybe, flip two seats in the legislature? Well over ten times what all pro-freedom groups spent, combined? That’s pocket lint to Michael Bloomberg. It’s background noise to the well-heeled liberals who support the pro-criminal groups.
And while the volunteers may well be the Subaru-driving, Saint Olaf-attending, Whole Foods shopping, ELCA-haired caricatures that I gleefully point out to you, even a caricature out doing productive work on the street moves the needle.
So we pro-freedom people have a lot to celebrate today. The SCOTUS has a fighting chance of breaking with the good guys for the next generation; the Legislature will no doubt put a “Stand Your Ground” measure on the Governor’s desk, and by my count, the GOP and outstate Democrats are painfully close to being able to override Governor Flint-Smith’s veto. We won one against a flood of out-of-state money.
But this is going to get harder, not easier.
Oil up those wallets and keep those walking shoes ready.
Gun grabbing, reprobate leftists won’t be getting gifts from SCOTUS anytime in the near future, but have a care.
A strictly literal, Constitutional jurist, which is what conservatives want, will naturally be inclined to let states govern themselves. For folks, like myself, that live in Real America, that is all we need for the foreseeable future. But you poor folks living in bright red oasis, surrounded by dingy, institutional blue deserts might be in for a fight.
California proves that pro-criminal groups may be evil, but they’re not stupid. The requirement to perform a background check for ammo sales is particularly insidious. The plan, of course, is if they can’t confiscate your firearms, they will make it as expensive and inconvenient as possible. It’s a plan they lifted directly from the anti-infanticide movement, and one that has proved pretty damn effective.
The beauty for pro-criminal orcs is, they know exactly how far they can go, because the federal bench has already weighed in on many of the schemes; they get the goods with no legal costs to incur.
So, as you say, there is much to celebrate but do not rest too long. And keep your eye on real estate and job offerings in Real American states…always good to have a bug out plan if the shit hits the fan.
Oh, and please make Walz pay the price for that picture next time. What a scumbag.
California tightens regulations on guns just in time to prevent building owners from shooting the hippies that are destroying their property….coincidence? I think not. Now is it a crime to bring in ammunition from liberty-loving Nevada and Arizona? Hmmm…..I sense a business opportunity here.
And if Bloomberg really believes that privately owned firearms are a problem–and Soros as well–he (they) can prove it by going to unarmed bodyguards.
If California’s law was adopted nation-wide, then criminals could not buy bullets, same as they cannot buy cocaine. Unless they buy their bullets from the cocaine dealer, who smuggles them in along with his other illegal products. After all, which is harder to smuggle – a pound of cocaine or a pound of bullets? Which will be worth more when it gets to Chicago?
Buy a key of coke, get 200 rounds free!
“flyin into Los Angeles, bringin’ in a couple of keys….don’t touch my bags if you please, Mr. Customs Man”
Keys of what? Arlo seems to be a man ahead of his time there….and I seem to remember that as DC was fighting the Heller decision, I recommended inmates of that foul city simply go to Cabela’s and pick up black powder guns, which are not regulated.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdqkE9Hn-9w