{"id":20085,"date":"2011-05-19T05:45:22","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T11:45:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=20085"},"modified":"2011-05-18T19:33:09","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T01:33:09","slug":"cop-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=20085","title":{"rendered":"Cop Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When Tony Cornish &#8211; an actual cop &#8211; introduced HF1467, the update of Minnesota&#8217;s self-defense laws, the DFL predictably trotted out one of its oldie but goodie memes; &#8220;Police Chiefs Oppose It!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Of course, the only &#8220;police chiefs&#8221; that they ever mention are the ones from the Metro &#8211; cops who are largely political bureaucrats who serve at the pleasure of the DFL.<\/p>\n<p>But when you start talking with other cops?<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"425\" height=\"349\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ea_v-lWWbkc\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Indeed, as usual, the DFL&#8217;s only response to Cornish&#8217;s bill (and its Senate companion) is&#8230;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Froth like Heather Martens&#8217; risible op-ed<\/li>\n<li>lies about the cops<\/li>\n<li>Insulting Cornish himself<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Further proof: \u00a0If the DFL says it, distrust but verify. \u00a0Then distrust some more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Tony Cornish &#8211; an actual cop &#8211; introduced HF1467, the update of Minnesota&#8217;s self-defense laws, the DFL predictably trotted out one of its oldie but goodie memes; &#8220;Police Chiefs Oppose It!&#8221; Of course, the only &#8220;police chiefs&#8221; that they ever mention are the ones from the Metro &#8211; cops who are largely political bureaucrats [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-victim-disarmament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20085","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=20085"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20086,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20085\/revisions\/20086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}