{"id":19758,"date":"2011-05-04T13:39:25","date_gmt":"2011-05-04T19:39:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=19758"},"modified":"2011-05-04T16:07:28","modified_gmt":"2011-05-04T22:07:28","slug":"emergency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=19758","title":{"rendered":"Action Needed <i>Now<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The Senate GOP is trying to sandbag the Cornish &#8220;Stand Your Ground&#8221; bill. \u00a0This just in from the Gun Owners Civil Rights Alliance:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Senator Warren Limmer, chair of the Senate Judiciary and Public Safety committee, claims that his committee does not have time to hear SF1357 \u2014 the Defense of Dwelling and Person Act of 2011. Refusing to hear the bill would kill it for the year.<\/p>\n<p>This is not acceptable!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Gun owners had enough of being taken for granted back in the &#8217;80s and &#8217;90s. \u00a0We&#8217;ve lost the taste for it.<\/p>\n<p>This is one of those moments where the rubber of grassroots politics meets the road.<\/p>\n<p>Please \u00a0&#8211; call:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Senator Limmer\u2019s office: (651) 296-2159<\/li>\n<li>Senate Majority Leader Amy Koch: (651) 296-5981<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8230;and tell them\u00a0both\u00a0to schedule the bill for consideration THIS WEEK.<\/p>\n<p>Then, please email them both:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"mailto:sen.amy.koch@senate.mn\">sen.amy.koch@senate.mn<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"mailto:sen.warren.limmer@senate.mn\">sen.warren.limmer@senate.mn<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And then call your own Senator.<\/p>\n<p>This is go time for the human right of self-defense, and taking it out of the realm of bureaucrats&#8217; discretion.<\/p>\n<p>Please get on the phone ASAP.<\/p>\n<p>And remember, Senators Koch and Limmer and the rest of the Senate GOP caucus;\u00a0nobody in Minnesota politics\u00a0has a longer memory than us bitter gun-clingers. \u00a0And I get it &#8211; it&#8217;s a busy session, and there are a <em>lot <\/em>of priorities.<\/p>\n<p>We are asking \u00a0you to <em>make <\/em>the time to get this bill through.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: \u00a0I talked with one of Sen, Koch&#8217;s assistants. \u00a0 Her question; is this bill more important than all the other bills that need to be heard?<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s right up there, yes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Senate GOP is trying to sandbag the Cornish &#8220;Stand Your Ground&#8221; bill. \u00a0This just in from the Gun Owners Civil Rights Alliance: Senator Warren Limmer, chair of the Senate Judiciary and Public Safety committee, claims that his committee does not have time to hear SF1357 \u2014 the Defense of Dwelling and Person Act of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[132,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mn-legislature","category-victim-disarmament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19758"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19763,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19758\/revisions\/19763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}