we have hearings this afternoon<\/a>, and there wil likely be a floor vote soon, it”ll be good to get clear on a couple of the “points” in the left’s “argument” against the Stand \u00a0Your Ground bill:<\/p>\nThe Bill Does: <\/strong>Adds “Stand Your Ground” to Minnesota’s self-defense law. It removes\u00a0\u00a0the requirement that an intended victim of violent crime must retreat from a place where he has a right to be before using deadly force in self defense.<\/p>\nThe Bill Does Not:<\/strong> Allow people to shoot people who wander onto their property. \u00a0While the unclear and capricious “duty to retreat” is eliminated, the requirement that lethal force be reasonable, and the fear of death or great bodily harm <\/em>be legitimate, do not change<\/em>. \u00a0This is a point that Twin Cities’ “progressives” have been playing fast and loose. \u00a0Read: Lying.<\/p>\nThe Bill Does<\/strong>:\u00a0Enhance the “Castle Doctrine”. The proposal clarifies\u00a0when and under what circumstances individuals can legally use deadly force to protect themselves in their homes and vehicles. It also creates a presumption that, when faced with an apparent home invasion, carjacking or kidnapping attempt, a person may use deadly force in self defense.<\/p>\nThe Bill Does Not<\/strong>: Allow people to shoot people for trivial reasons. \u00a0“Progressives” want you to believe that the bill will allow you to shoot people who “give you the stink eye”. \u00a0They say this because lies are all they have.<\/p>\nThe Bill Does<\/strong>:\u00a0Prevent Gun Seizures During States of Emergency. It\u00a0bans government agencies from seizing guns or ammo, revoking permits to purchase or carry, closing gun shops, or otherwise suspending our constitutional rights during civil emergencies. It also prohibits law enforcement officers from seizing a person’s gun (unless the person is arrested, and the gun is evidence of a crime).<\/p>\nThe Bill Does Not<\/strong>: Give people a “get out of jail free card” for killing people when self-defense is not justified.<\/p>\nThe Bill Does: <\/strong>Improve State Background Checks. \u00a0It requires the Minnesota Department of Human Services and state courts to make their background check records available electronically to authorized agencies, including the National Instant Background Check system (NICS), the “instant background check” database that controls handgun sales nationwide<\/em>. \u00a0This\u00a0process was supposed to have been in place 16 years ago – that’s your bureaucracy at work! \u00a0It should reduce purchasing delays and ensure that state and federal checks produce the same results.<\/p>\nThe Bill Does Not<\/strong>: Make it easier to kill people in domestic arguments. \u00a0Just the opposite.<\/em><\/p>\nWhat The Bill Does: <\/strong>Create a more robust appeal process for denied purchase permits, and requiring that police chiefs and sheriffs whose purchase permit denials are overturned must pay the applicants’ legal costs. \u00a0Y’know – requires them to follow the law, rather than their bureaucratic whim.<\/p>\nThe Bill Does Not:<\/strong> Give gun owners the right to kill deputies and cops that irritate them. \u00a0No “progressive” has suggested it would – yet – but you know those wacky “progressives”; it won’t take ’em long.<\/p>\nThe Bill Does<\/strong>:\u00a0Adds Universal Carry Permit Acceptance. \u00a0It\u00a0updates Minnesota’s carry permit reciprocity standards, allowing people holding carry permits from any other state to carry in Minnesota (subject to Minnesota’s laws). This should result in a large increase in the number of states where Minnesota permit holders can carry, since many states allow other states’ permit holders to carry on a reciprocal basis.<\/p>\nThe Bill Does Not<\/strong>: Let anyone kill anyone for trivial reasons. \u00a0Period. \u00a0End of sentence. \u00a0Anyone who says otherwise is lying.<\/p>\nThe Bill Does: <\/strong>Give self-defense shooters the presumption of innocence until guilt is proven. \u00a0Currently, self-defense shooters must, in effect, say “yes, I’m guilty, but here’s my excuse” – a profound legal risk that not even serial killers face.<\/p>\nThat’s really all that matters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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