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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
To: The Twin Cities Media From: Mitch Berg, Uppity Peasant Re: A Guide To Gun-Grabber Rhetoric Dear Media, When the topic turns to guns, the Second Amendment and gun control, there is so much that so many of you are … Continue reading
To: Rep. Kim Norton, Rep. Heather Martens, et al From: Mitch Berg, Uppity Peasant Re: Your Sources All, Don’t say I never did anything for you. This is as good as any case you’ve ever made: Feel free to just … Continue reading
When/if the police finally catch the person responsible for this shooting, at the corner of my neighborhood on Saturday night, what do you suppose the odds are that he bought the gun at a gun show, or from a law-abiding … Continue reading
The good guys have apparently gotten into Heather Martens’ head. GOCRA and MNGOPAC figured prominently in Martens’ “Give to the Max” day fundraising plea: By giving today, you make it possible for the voice of reason to be heard at … Continue reading
Heather Martens – “Director” and likely sole member of “Protect Minnesota”, and sometimes ad-hoc legislative representative from House District 66A – has sent out a fund-raising email. Because trying to squat on peoples’ civil rights isn’t cheap, even if you … Continue reading
Just because Michael Bloomberg and all his money have decided to put Heather Martens on the sidelines in Minnesota’s Second Amendment “debate” doesn’t mean that the Twin Cities media isn’t dutifully lining up to give her a smooch on the … Continue reading
Since Michael Bloomberg sent her and her rage-addled partner Jane Kay to the bench during the 2014 session, I feel like I’ve neglected one of my key jobs in blogging about Second Amendment human rights in Minnesota. For those of … Continue reading
To: Heather Martens From: Mitch Berg, Your Longtime Nemesis Re: Apology Ms. Martens, For most of the past decade and change, I’ve been running down your accuracy, your knowledge of Second Amendment issues, and the extent to which you confused … Continue reading
Seven dead and many injured in the city that actually has the gun laws that Heather Martens, Jane Kay and Michael Paymar dream about: . Seven people were killed and at least 32 others were shot in violence that plagued … Continue reading
The MInnPost is an organization I’d very much like to respect. It includes a raft of people I’ve considered good reporters. But over the course of Minnesota’s gun debate over this past session – brought on by Minnesota DFL legislators … Continue reading
Suck it: The St. Paul-based outdoor goods chain already has 11 Gander Mountain locations across the state — all of which sell guns — but its store in the western Twin Cities suburb will have strictly a firearms emphasis. The … Continue reading
Her lips are moving. More below. ———- The Strib’s longtime outdoor writer Dennis Anderson wrote an excellent profile of state representative Tony Cornish over the weekend. Cornish, with the departure of Pat Pariseau and Linda Boudreaux from the Legislature, has taken on … Continue reading
Aren’t the Democrats the ones who complain that their opposition is in the back pocket of lobbyists? We’ll come back to that. We’ll also come back to this: until redistricting last February, I spent close to two decades in the … Continue reading
As we noted on Tuesday, the Strib’s coverage of the fact that over 100,000 Minnesotans have carry permits (six weeks later than it was covered in this space) had good news and bad news. The good news? Larry Oakes, the … Continue reading
I try to be civil. I really do. But it needs to be said; Heather Martens is a liar. Maybe not in every single area of her life. She may well be perfectly good, ethical human being in some areas … Continue reading
Just to set the stage for the Supreme Court’s Heller decision, which should be coming out in the next couple of weeks. Check this out: Wow. Lookit all those guns – most of them fully-automatic weapons. And that ain’t the … Continue reading
After a few fairly quiet years, gun control is back in the MN Legislature. Alice “The Phantom” Hausman (who isn’t any better about being seen in 66A today than she was in 66B fifteen years ago, and whose upcoming retirement … Continue reading
“Protect” Minnesota has a new executive director. We’ll come back to that. Modern American “progressivism”, like all its many forebears in the past 200 years, has been all about rallying people against boogeymen. From “monarchists” in the French Revolution, to … Continue reading
I used to ask Twin Cities media figures why they kept taking the likes of Heather Martens and the “Reverend” Nancy Nord Bence seriously, treating them as legitimate sources on the news, when the leading intellectual lights of Minnesota’s gun … Continue reading
Anyone remember Dave Mindeman? About ten years ago or so, he ran a blog – “MNPAct” – which was a website for putative organization Dave putatively ran. Now, let me be clear: Dave was one of a small handful of … Continue reading
I’ve said it before, and I’m sure I’ll say it at least once a month until “Protect” MInnesota finally gets laughed out of polite company in this state: the local gun grab group and its arious leaders – the “Reverend” … Continue reading
It’s not quite a “Berg’s Law”, since it only pertains to a few groups, most particularly “Protect” Minnesota – the voice of the gun control movement in Minnesota – but it’s getting close. Let be say this as clearly and … Continue reading
Gun control groups don’t care about saving lives. It’s true in big ways – you will never see a gun control group, or at least not one of the main line, lily white ones like Everytown Julie one of their … Continue reading