Tag: 2nd Amendment Grass Roots
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Chanting Points Memo: Ron Latz’s Polished Turd
Death came to me the other day as I was shopping for crackers. No, not in the whole black robe and scythe get-up. In fact, he looked a little bit like a Ryan Winker speech sounds. But I digress. We started talking. DEATH: OK, so how about “death”? Whatdya think? ME: Well, I’ll choose life,…
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I Heard It On The NARN
Here’s the website for Lift Bridge Brewery. Also check out SaveTheGrowler.org. And of course, you can keep the heat on the legislature on guns by staying in touch with the Gun Owners’ Civil Rights Alliance, and the Health Insurance Exchange by talking with the Citizens Council for Health Freedon’s “Not A Marketplace” effort.
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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…
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More Work To Do
After wasting a solid two weeks of the legislature’s time with a raft of gun grab bills that had no business seeing the light of day, the DFL is back at it. Michael Paymar is pushing a rights-crushing omnibus gun bill so obnoxious it needs to be handled with tongs – a bill that punishes the…
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Be Intimidated!
Last week, it came to our attention that the local lefty alt-media was shilling for the DFL meme that anti-gun Representatives felt “intimidated” by the presence of all the gun owners – people with carry permits who’ve passed criminal background checks, and are thus most likely less apt to resort to violence than, well, the…
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The Hill To Die On
We Real Americans – that defined as “Americans who support all ten Amendments in the Bill of Rights, the Second and Tenth as devoutly as the First and Fourth – know that giving any ground with the gun grabbers is a fool’s bargain. The metrocrat Orcs will exploit any opening we Real Americans give them to harass us, badger…
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That Growing Sense The DFL Lost That One
I used to read a lot of liberal bloggers. I don’t so much anymore; part of it’s the time; part of it is that there are so few good ones. A few Minnesota liberal blogs – one in particular, but I’m not naming names – have a particularly annoying habit when they get pressed in…
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Open Letter To Rep. Betty McCollum
To: Rep. Betty McCollum From: Mitch Berg, Peasant Re: Mission Accomplished! Rep. McCollum: You had a “Town Hall” meeting deep in the heart of DFL-addled Oakdale yesterday. MNCD4 Conservative was there to shoot video. And even there, even you couldn’t dodge talking about the Second Amendment . Video below the jump, so that the…
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Compare And Contrast
Comparing two events: And at least one of the people at the “Gun Control Rally” is a pro-gun ringer. But compare the media presence, hey? (Via Andrew Rothman at GOCRA)
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The Sheriff Shot Back
The media yaks endlessly about the thin film of Minnesota law-enforcement leaders – Dakota County sheriff Bellows and prosecutor Jim Backstrom, Chaska’s Scott Knight and a few others – who bark for gun control when the DFL tells them to. The following group – related in a news release from the Gun Owners Civil Rights…
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I Heard It On The NARN
Here’s “The Racist History of Gun Control” by Clayton Cramer. And here’s the website for the Gun Owners Civil Rights Alliance.
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Fire In A Crowded Theater
In case I haven’t mentioned it before – a billion thanks to Professor Joe Olson and the rest of the crew at the Gun Owners Civil Rights Alliance for ensuring Minnesota’s carry permit law was written so that carry permits are not public records. While the safety of the individual carry permittee wasn’t the primary reason, the…
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Technicalities
Joe Doakes from Como Park writes: New sign posted this week at the front entrance to Ramsey County Property Records and Revenue (the place where you file your deed and pay your taxes), located at 90 West Plato Blvd. It’s across the river from downtown. The building sits on land owned by Ramsey County government…
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Vote Accordingly
The Gun Owners Civil Rights Alliance has released its candidate grades. When reading this, remember – “F*”, with the asterisk, means “didn’t return the questionnaire”. While most Republicans (and a huge proportion of DFLers outside the metro) scored well, plenty of Republicans in tough DFL districts who would be solid on the Second Amendment very…
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As You Make Your Primary Choices
The Gun Owners Civil Rights Alliance has released its candidate scorecard. Be advised that anyone that didn’t return their scorecard gets an “F*”, based on the assumption that people who don’t return questionnaires are trying to hide their sentiments until after election time. I think that may have been a fair assumption ten years ago;…
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In Memory, With A Side Order Of Spiking The Ball
Let’s go back in time ten years. Back then, as the plucky underdogs of “Concealed Carry Reform Now” worked away at the biggest grassroots political coup in Minnesota pre-Tea-Party history, the orcs of the anti-gun movement sawed gamely away at a series of memes to try to scare people out of voting for the measure:…
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Don’t Stop
The governor has until midnight tonight – Monday – to sign or veto the Cornish “Stand Your Ground” bill. I suspect he’ll veto it. He’ll probably claim the people don’t support it. Let’s make sure he and his staff know better. Invest fifteen seconds in furthering freedom. This will remain at the top of this…
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And Don’t Forget…
Please call. Fifteen seconds is all it takes. This will remain at the top of this blog until the issue is resolved.
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In The Governor’s Court
The Gun Owners Civil Rights Alliance sends us this reminder: “You’ve sure been posting a lot of calls for people to call people, Mitch”. Yep. That’s grassroots politics. You get your people to show up – on the phone lines and in the mail bags while the sausage is being made, and then again at…
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Time To Stand Up For “Stand Your Ground”
I got this from the Gun Owners Civil Rights Alliance this morning; Tony Cornish’s “Stand Your Ground” bill comes up for debate in the Senate tomorrow. I’m going to start with the call to action, and let you read the rest of it later. Here’s What We Need To Do: If you are a Minnesotan…
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Democrats: “Americans Are Eggs; We Are The Chefs”
As we’ve been showing this past week on this blog, Governor Dayton has been using poor Minnesotans as an anvil on which to try to hammer the GOP, intentionally ratcheting up the pain to them of a possible government shutdown. It’s part of a great liberal liberal tradition; individuals can, and if need be must,…
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Joel Rosenberg – RIP
I’ve been off the grid for the past couple of days. I was shocked to hear from friends this morning that Joel Rosenberg has died. Joel was accomplished at many things; a science fiction writer with dozens of book credits, he was best known to civil liberties advocates in Minnesota as the beating heart and…
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Let’s Give Credit Where It’s Due
Here is the list of Minnesota House members who voted for HF1467 – which expands the human right of self-defense, and creates a legal possibility that demonstrably-legitimate self-defense shootings don’t have to plead “guilty with an explanation” for exercising the human right to defend their lives and their families from lethal threats. If you see…
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You Know How You Can Tell There’s A Second-Amendment Bill In The Hopper (Part II)?
This morning, we went over the claims from “Spotty” from Cucking Stool that Rep. Cornish’s “Stand Your Ground” bill (HF 1467, which we discussed at great length last week) would allow people to make spurious claims of self-defense and, literally, get away with murder. It won’t, of course – although Minnesota’s “progressives” want you to…
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75,000 Points Of Light
Minnesota now has 75,000 carry permits, according to the Minnesota Gun Owners Civil Rights Alliance. That’s running just a tad ahead of the national average. Just over seven years after its passage, the Minnesota Citizens’ Personal Protection Act of 2003 has resulted in over 75,000 people who now have active carry permits, a 500% increase…