still <\/em>count on pro-Second-Amendment people – real Americans, working people with actual lives and obligations – to outnumber the orcs by at least 20-1 at these hearings.<\/p>\nToday?\u00a0 According to Joel, the orcs brought two paid staffers.\u00a0 At least sixty real Americans showed up.\u00a0<\/p>\n
And there’ll be a list of names, legislators who should have known better – a list of infamy almost as grotesque as the Gang of Six, legislators who were expected <\/em>to side with real Americans, but who cast their lot with the orcs.\u00a0 And it’s with memories of the end of the dark age – back in ’00 and ’02 – when even though concealed carry reform didnt’ pass, outstate legislators who stabbed real America in the back got tossed under the bus at the polls.\u00a0 And this was before <\/em>Tim Pawlenty took office.<\/p>\nSo here’s an open letter to those legislators, whomever they are; real Americans have long memories – and November isn’t that <\/em>far away.\u00a0<\/p>\nDon’t make any plans in Saint Paul for next February.\u00a0 That’s all I’m saying.<\/p>\n
Joel Rosenberg’s gonna get the names and post ’em tomorrow.\u00a0 And I’m going to make damn <\/em>sure nobody forgets.\u00a0<\/p>\nUPDATE:\u00a0 Joel and Andrew Rothman liveblogged the hearing – sorta.\u00a0 You can see a couple of things; the incredible disingenuousness of the orcs (Cornish on hearing someone refer to the “rights” the bill would impart on criminals,\u00a0“asking what bill the opposition read, since their comments had nothing to do with the bill”), and the fact that the bill “lost” 9-9; ties go to the status quo.<\/p>\n
Bad, but not catastrophic.\u00a0 If the GOP has a decent year – and anti-Second Amendment RINOs and outstate DFLers are expunged from both <\/em>parties, which is far from unusual after votes like this – we can make more progress next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I just talked with Joel Rosenberg, at the Capitol.\u00a0 The Public Safety Committee killed Tony Cornish’s “Stand Your Ground” bill a little bit ago. Nothing really shocking there.\u00a0 But there was good news, too. As I noted yesterday, back in the dark days of DFL hegemony in this state, you could still count on pro-Second-Amendment […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-minnesota-politics","category-victim-disarmament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2263","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=2263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}