Shot in the Dark

Tag: Rev. Nancy Nord Bence

  • The Gang That Couldn’t Not Shoot, Straight: Thanks For The Marketing!

    During the many years when Representative Heather Martens ran “Protect” Minnesota, the organization developed a reputation as being dodderingly, genially incompetent – like a neighborhood garden circle where everyone forgot to bring gloves. In the year or so since the Reverend Nancy Nord Bence took over at “”Protect” Minnesota, the image has morphed into a…

  • Ghouls WIth ELCA Hair

    I got this the other day: The first thing I thought was after reading this part: I missed it. I got so wrapped up in work yesterday that I forgot to send out an email commemorating the anniversary of the mass shooting at Pulse Nightclub, in Orlando, FL., one year ago. Put another way:  “I’m…

  • The Keystone Gungrabbers: As If On Cue

    On Friday, in discussing the brouhaha over the Big Lake High School Trap team, I noted that “Protect” Minnesota, the habitual liars who lead Minnesota’s gun-grabber movement, disavowed one of their own oranization’s facebook posts.  This is merely the most ridiculous in a long pattern of such japes by the organization and its leader, the…

  • Our Morally Incontinent Would-Be Overlords Speak Again

    This was “Protect” MN’s response to the Big Lake dust-up yesterday: In what way does this statement do anything but put the Big Lake High School Trap team – high school kids, doing a sport sanctioned by their school, under rigorous supervision, who are learning the safety rules vastly  better than most people (and some…

  • Unwarranted Sanctimony

    The Evanglical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), aka “Unitarians with Lutefisk” (Keillor said it, not me!), are the far-left-leaning wing of American Lutheranism.  The people who gave us “ELCA hair” are headquartered in Minneaopolis, and often seem to spend more time on politics than faith; among certain ELCA circles, “faith” seems to be little but…

  • Lie First, Lie Always: Rev. Nancy Nord Bence, False Witness

    To:  The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America From:  Mitch Berg, Presbyterian peasant Re:  False Witness Dear ELCA, One of your reverends is lying through her impeccable teeth: Your reverend keeps telling black people and Muslims that the HR288, the “Self Defense Reform Act”, is a special danger to them, because, she says, it’ll allow people…

  • Open Letter To The Entire Twin Cities Media

    To:  The Entire Twin Cities News Media From:  Mitch Berg, ornery peasant Re:  The Reverend Nancy Nord Bence Back during my brief and unlamented reporting career, I had not a few editors and producers warn me off using certain sources – the ones that had a habit of feeding them bum information. I’m going to…

  • Lie First, Lie Always: Delusions Of Adequacy

    It’s been a frustrating week to be a Real American in Minnesota – an American who believes that law-abiding citizens should have more rights in the eyes of the law than criminals. More on that tomorrow on the show.  Oh, yes – the show will fairly crackle with rage. But there’s some comic relief.  Grim…

  • Lie First, Lie Always: The Anti-Gun Amateur Hour

    Earlier this morning at the House Public Safety Committee hearings on the “Stand your Ground” billl, a “pro-bill” testifier erupted in a caracature of a pro-Trump, white supremacist tirade; at one point, he reportedly said it was time for gun owners to return to “lynching” people. Then he got up and walked out. He’s utterly unknown…

  • Bad Information

    Rep. Erin Maye-Quade sent this bit out to her constituents earlier this week: Looks familiar, doesn’t it? It’s the same, precise set of fallacious claims made by The Reverend Nancy Nord Bence a few weeks ago. Neither of the bills would “eliminate” the permit to carry.  That’s not the point, of course, so we’ll let…

  • Lie First, Lie Always: The Reverend Nancy Nord Bence Can’t Seem To Tell The Truth. Ever.

    My first carry permit instructor, the late great Joel Rosenberg, drilled into his students’ heads one key, overarching idea; that shooting in self-defense was, at best, the second-worst possible outcome to an incident.  “You’re setting off a nuclear bomb in your life”, he said. Shooting in self-defense is fraught with peril, for even the most…

  • The Gang That Couldn’t Not Shoot, Straight, Part V: Everyone With ELCA Hair Looks The Same

    All this week we’ve been talking about “Protect” Minnesota’s press release, a week ago today. And when I say “talking”, I mean “checking its many false assertions, and mocking it to a fine sheen”. I – like the release itself – saved the worst for last. Like Going To Courtney Love For Legal Advice:  We…

  • The Gang That Couldn’t Not Shoot, Straight, Part IV: I Don’t Think That Word Means What The Rev. Nancy Nord Bence Thinks It Means

    On Tuesday and yesterday, we discussed “Protect” Minnesota’s factually vacuous response to the House’s Constitutional Carry bill – which would allow people who are otherwise entitled to carry firearms to do so without having to jump through hoops. Today, we’ll shift the focus to “Protect”‘s response to the self-defense reform bill – which The Reverend…

  • The Gang That Couldn’t Not Shoot, Straight, Part III: That Golden Ticket!

    I’m continuing my five-part series going over “Protect” Minnesota’s press release on the Self-Defense Reform and Constitutional Carry bills, which were introduced last week in the House. But first, a quick aside. Records:  While the criminal-safety  movement would like you to think otherwise, gun violence is neither generally random nor unpredictable.  Our violent crime rate…

  • The Gang That Couldn’t Not Shoot, Straight, Part II: Data, Data Everywhere!

    All week, we’re going over the “Protect” Minnesota press release from last Friday evening (aka “where politicians take out their trash”).   Because the Reverend Nancy Nord Bence’s work is just too awe-inspiringly bad to tackle in just one post. Aside:  I can hear you asking already; worse than a Heather Martens piece? It’s a good…

  • The Gang That Couldn’t Not Shoot, Straight: Game On!

    In 1987, as a bill that would require the state to issue handgun carry permits to citizens who were not explicitly barred from having them passed a vote in the Florida state legislature, state senator Ron Silver predicted blood in the streets, and said the state would turn into Dodge City. Silver, being a Democrat of…

  • Heather Martens, Whitesplainer

    Behold the spokeswoman for Minnesota’s minority community. It’s Heather Martens, longtime “executive director” and, for most of the decade, pretty much sole “member” of “Protect” Minnesota, a criminal-safety group famous for its comic ineptitude. She left “Protect” Minnesota a while ago; word has it that MIchael Bloomberg realized that he’d be throwing even more money…

  • Casualty Of Hysteria?

    Ramsey County attorney John Choi released the findings of the investigation of the Philando Castile shooting.  Ramco charged Saint Anthony Park police officer Jeronimo Yanez with second-degree manslaughter in the death of the Saint Paul school employee last summer. There are better commentators on the legalities and the sociology of this incident than me. But…

  • When Out And About Tomorrow

    There’s a “League of Women Voters” event in Bloomington tomorrow:  “Guns, the Issues”. It’s going to be a panel discussion featuring, on the pro-criminal side, the Reverend Nancy Nord Bence of Protect Criminals Minnesota and Maplewood Police chief (and DFL mouthpiece) Paul Schnell, versus Bryan Strawser and Sarah Cade of the Minnesota Gun Owners Political…

  • My Challenge To The Reverend Bence

    Lately, the left has been making the following fairly fantastic claim: I’ve heard this a few times – and it gave me one of my customarily-brilliant ideas. I challenge the Reverend Nancy Nord Bence, Joan Peterson, and any other leaders of “Everytown”, “Moms Want Action” and “Protect” MN to meet me in North Minneapolis or Dayton’s…

  • Lie First, Lie Always: Audio Carnage

    Andrew Rothman of the Gun Owners Civil Rights Alliance was apparently on WCCO yesterday.  “Protect” MN put out an email blast for its badly-informed chanting point bots to call in – which I doubt worked especially well. I was extraordinarily busy over the weekend, so I didn’t get a chance to listen. But “Protect” MN’s email…

  • A Rhetorical Question, Sort Of, For The Rev. Nancy Nord Bence

    To:  The Reverend Nancy Nord Bence, “Protect” MN From:  Mitch Berg, Peasant Re:  Suggestion Last night, you had your “Orange” events around selected parts of the Metro – or at least Eagan (a snug little suburban enclave) and the Stone Arch Bridge, the heart of the gentrified waterfront. And yet in all your communications, you…

  • The Dreamiscle Ghouls

    Today’s the day all the gun-grabbers have planned for their big…day.  They’ll be having their little events, wearing their orange t-shirts, looking a little bit like human Dreamsicles.  And they’ll be marching their marches, doing their speeches, yadda yadda.   I wouldn’t be surprised if the huge papier-mache heads turned up. To pimp the event,…

  • Open Letter To Sen. Latz, Rep. Schoen, Rep. Norton, Rev. Nord Bence, Jane Kaye, Heather Martens, and Joan Peterson

    To:  The Abovementioned From: Mitch Berg, Mere Peasant Re:  Your signage where your mouths are All, You are the leaders of Minnesota’s gun-grabber movement.  You and your wan little pack of Volvo-driving, alpaca-wearing, NPR-listening, St. Olaf-graduating, ELCA-coiffed followers want to take away Minnesotans’ right and means to defend themselves. Now, crime in Minnesota is very,…

  • Those Who Forget Stupid-People History Are Doomed To Repeat It

    The Early ’70s – the National Coalition to Ban Handguns distributes signs indicating that the home is “proud to be gun-free”. They made the usual, predictable media splash – the nation’s opinion-pushers were pretty roundly anti-gun in those days, and they’d done a pretty fair job of bandwagoning a good chunk of American opinion into…