Tag: ProtectMN
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Waiting For Word From “Protect” MN, Everytown And Moms Demand
The “warlord” of the Seattle Peoples Autonomous Zone hands out AR15s to fellow “revolutionaries”: Not a background check among ’em. The gun groups seem to be silent on this particular example of gun proliferation.
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New, Miserable Regime
The Reverend Nancy Nord Bence led “Protect” MN for four gloriously inept years. In those years, she never – not once – made a statement about guns, gun owners, gun crime, self-defense, gun hardware, gun laws, the Second Amendment, its history, its jurisprudence or its application that was simultaneously substantial, original and true. This blog…
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Lie First, Lie Always: Lie, Finally
Has it only been four years that the “Reverend” Nancy Nord Bence took over as the ‘Executive Director” and one of about five actual “members” of “Protect” Minnesota? Sometimes it seems like so much longer. Even by Twin Cities “progressive” standards, the “Reverend” Nord Bence blazed a trail of intellectual and moral depravity in which…
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Full Gaslight
On Facebook the other day, The “Reverend” Nancy Nord Bence went full-on gaslight: “To face the reality of our gun problem, you’ll have to admit that you are the problem too. You’ll be forced to connect the dots between guns and your white theology, guns and your nationalism, guns and your Islamophobia, guns and your…
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Up From Zero
As I’ve pointed out in the past, “Protect” Minnesota and their director, the “Reverend” Nancy Nord Bence, have never made an assertion about guns, gun owners, gun laws, gun crime, gun statistics, the Second Amendment or its history that is simultaneously: Original Substantial, and True. You might get two out of three, sometimes. This next…
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Many Good Guys With Guns
A good guy with a gun is involved in ending one out of twelve mass shootings in recent years, according to Ted Nugent. Just kidding. It’s according to the FBI. And they may be under-reporting even that figure: The FBI’s two latest reports state that there were 40 active shooter cases from 2014-15 and 50…
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Lie First, Lie Always: Nancy Nord Bence’s Unbroken Streak!
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 unequivocally as I can: “Protect” Minnesota has never made a single statement about guns, gun…
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I’m Not Saying…
…that gun control activists are stupid. I am saying they sure hope you’re stupid, and are trying to make you more so “Protect” MN posted this: Now, I get that you can’t judge a book by its cover… …but do you see this guy standing m line at Cabelas filling out his paperwork while waiting…
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The Juggernaut Strikes
It’s convention time. Time for groups trying to influence the political process to wield the power of their numbers, finances and organizing skill to benefit the candidate they choose. For a group with serious power – human, financial or moral – it’s time to apply that power to the endorsement of candidates for key state…
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Ghouls Just Want To Have Fun
Over the Memorial Day weekend “Protect” Minnesota just couldn’t help itself; they had to appropriate a solemn national observance to their mission: Normally, something like this would end up in me wading into the fever swamp to smack them down. Especially when you get people like this chiming in: (Would someone please tell me what…
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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…
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“Protect” Minnesota: The Truth Oozes Out
One of the great lessons gun controllers learned in the past decade or so is shut up about the real agenda. Gull the odd gullible gun owner with soothing-yet-ridiculing platitutdes, like “Nobody’s coming for your guns. All we want is a conversation about “gun safety” and “violence”. But every once in a while, they screw…
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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…
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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…
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Lying, Criminal Or Both?
There’s an old saying; “success has a thousand fathers; failure is an orphan”. In the wake of the Democrat party’s nationwide electoral humiliation, the left is looking for things to hang their hopes on. It’s human nature; the good guys were doing it two years ago, too. So here’s what the Democrats are hanging their…
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Chanting Points Memo: Will Susan Perry Ever Stop Treating Readers Like Junior High Kids?
There must be a legislative session coming up; the MinnPost – a local group-blog funded by liberals with deep pockets employing a rogue’s gallery of recycled local big-media people – is back on the gun beat. Last week, Susan Perry – their “consumer health reporter”, whose sloppy reporting on this subject we’ve repeatedly, even routinely,…
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The Many Lies of “Protect” MN, Part XXIV: “No Precedent!”
I almost missed this one in the scrum of this past few weeks. A couple of weeks ago, when Representatives Paymar and Martens tried to jam down a ban on law-abiding citizens carrying their legally-permitted firearms in the Capitol complex, the Strib’s Abby Simons wrote the paper’s follow-up piece. It ended with a quote from…
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The Many Lies Of “Protect” MN, Part XXIII: “Nobody’s Coming For Your Guns!”
Remember last year, when Representatives Michael Paymar, Heather Martens and Alice “the Phantom” Hausman copied and pasted gun-grab laws from New York, Colorado and California and tried to jam them down in the Legislature? The orcs insisted “Nobody’s coming to take the guns of the law-abiding!” We Real Americans knew better. We always do. And…
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A Holiday Present To “Protect” MN
The Select Committee on Capitol Security met yesterday. They moved to hire some new State Patrol and rent-a-cops. There wasn’t a whole lot of controversy there, although Representative Woodard and Senator Ingebrigtsen noted that security in the parts of the Capitol that need it is already pretty good. But the reason reason people paid attention…
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The Many Lies (And Incoherencies) Of “Protect” MN, Part XXII: And Now They’re Coming For The First Amendment, Too!
If you go to the little email widget that “Protect” Minnesota uses to try to spam legislators, you’ll see this text pre-filled. I’ll highlight the money quote: Minnesota is one of only a few states that allows private firearms to be carried at the state Capitol without screening. In addition, committee chairs don’t have the…
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The Many Lies Of “Protect” MN, Part XXI: It’s Go Time Again
This email came out from Rep Heather Martens (DFLiar, HD66A) earlier this week: Dear Friend, Tomorrow at 10:30 am, the legislature’s committee on Capitol security will decide whether to continue to let people carry loaded guns in the Capitol. At a meeting earlier this month, it became clear that some concealed carry permit holders have…
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The Many Lies of “Protect”MN, Part XX: Alinsky RSVPed
A little bird forwarded me this email from “Protect”MN to its mailing list. I’ll add emphasis: You are Invited! What: A house party fundraiser with Protect Minnesota When: Monday, November 25, 5:30-7 p.m. Where: [Redacted] Fremont Ave., Minneapolis [And no, it’s not North Fremont. Or north of 38th Street South. If you catch my drift…
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Minneapolis: The Racket Wants To Strike Back
Minneapolis has always wanted to roll back Minnesota’s “Pre-emption statute”, which prevents city governments from enacting gun laws different (especially more stringent) than state law. And they’ve been lobbying to change that as long as I’ve been aware of the issue – and that’s getting to be a long time, now. “Ron V” of the Minnesotans for…
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The Many Lies Of “Protect”MN, Part XIX
I was going to title the piece “Rep. Heather Martens: Her Lips Are Moving” – but now that Protect MN has hired Richard Carlbom, the PR father of gay marriage in Minnesota, I have to upgrade my approach. Because while Representative Martens has never made a substantive true claim in all her years of working…