To: Senator Warren Limmer, chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and the entire Senate GOP Caucus
From: Mitch Berg, irascible peasant and, hate to say it, guy who’s starting to feel like a bit of a chump
Re: Action
Senators,
Let me direct your attention back to 2002. The GOP had played safe on “shall issue” carry permit reform for years. But in 2002, just in time for those crucial midterms, the GOP doubled down.
The time was right. Every DFLer in greater Minnesota who opposed the bill in the 2002 legislature, got retired from office that fall.
OK. Back to the present. it’s 20 years later, gun rights are in the ascendant. Why are you acting like it’s 1996?
We need to talk.
I supported you. When your people called, I gave you airtime. I voted for you.
Enough of us did to keep you in the majority – last year, against incredible odds, when most of the smart money said we would be falling into the minority again.
A key part of that fairly miraculous performance was the fact that Minnesota’s hundreds of thousands of gun owners turned out for you, come hell or high water.
So here you are, now, sitting on a thin majority, heading into a midterm where all the signs show the people are chomping at the bit to get out and support red meat conservative issues.
So, Senator Limmer, why in the flaming hootie-hoo are you sandbagging us on stand your ground and constitutional carry?
Despite complete GOP control in the Minnesota Senate and years of promises to Minnesota’s law-abiding gun owners, the Senate GOP is not moving on important gun rights legislation.
Call Senator Warren Limmer, Chair of Senate Judiciary, TODAY and demand hearings on Constitutional Carry and Stand Your Ground.
Then visit our Action Center at http://gunowners.mn/action and send an email to your State Rep & Senator demanding action on this important gun rights legislation.
They’ve made campaign promises of support for these bills for years – let’s hold their feet to the fire to take action!
If I may speak frankly – and it’s my blog, so I certainly may – you have played it too safe, and squandered opportunities to move the needle, for far too long.
Please see to this ASAP.
That is all.
Good call, Mitch.
and don’t forget to vote harder in the next election! Unless you participate in primary elections to elect candidates of principle not the “electable” ones, you get what you voted for – MN Nice (DFL) Uniparty.
I imagine that MNGOP is being told by consultants that constitutional carry is poison with female suburban voters.
MP;
I’ll have to disagree.
Due to the rise in crime, especially carjackings and the related testimonies of largely female victims, more suburban moms are buying guns, than ever before. Hence, the record number of C&C permit applications over the past year.
boss, MP forgot to close his tag.
Lol…boomer-cons and their ishews.
You can legally carry a hog leg in MN today; but if you’re White, and you use it there’s a 60/40 chance you’ll get charged with murder.
We’ve got millions of unskilled, uneducated, 75 IQ people from every third world shit hole on the planet swarming across our Southern border.
The DOJ has labeled White people domestic terrorists, and the FBI is actively collecting info on middle class, White parents.
But yeah, I can see how filing for a permit is red hot.
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