{"id":26480,"date":"2012-02-27T06:00:36","date_gmt":"2012-02-27T12:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=26480"},"modified":"2014-10-05T14:39:20","modified_gmt":"2014-10-05T19:39:20","slug":"stand-your-ground-its-go-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=26480","title":{"rendered":"Stand Your Ground:  It&#8217;s Go-Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got this from the Gun Owners Civil Rights Alliance:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If you do only one thing for gun rights this year, this is it!<\/p>\n<p>The Stand Your Ground bill passed the Minnesota House last year. It overwhelmingly passed the Senate last week. Now the bill is headed to Governor Dayton.<\/p>\n<p>TODAY!<\/p>\n<p>Call Governor Dayton&#8217;s office and ask him to sign HR1467, the Stand Your Ground bill.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Metro: 651-201-3400<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Toll Free: 800-657-3717<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Please take a few minutes to write a real letter, on paper. These are incredibly effective in convincing a politician of how seriously we take an issue.<\/p>\n<p>Governor Mark Dayton<\/p>\n<p>130 State Capitol<\/p>\n<p>75 Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.<\/p>\n<p>St. Paul, MN 55155<\/p>\n<p>Suggested language: &#8220;Please sign HF1467, the Stand Your Ground bill, today.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Send an email: <a href=\"http:\/\/mn.gov\/governor\/contact-us\/form\/\">Go to the governor&#8217;s web site<\/a>\u00a0 and send the same message.<\/p>\n<p>Got a fax machine? Send a fax with the same message to <strong>651-797-1850<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Forward this to a dozen friends and ask them to do the same.<\/p>\n<p><strong>TOMORROW, AND EVERY DAY UNTIL HE SIGNS THE BILL!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Do it again (see above)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You know as well as I do that he&#8217;s likely to veto the bill; his strings are being pulled by the likes of &#8220;Alliance For A Better Minnesota&#8221; and the Metrocrat left. But even Dayton knows he has to defer to the fervor, passion and power of the Second Amendment movement at some point; he ran as a pro-gun, pro-self-defense candidate.<\/p>\n<p>So this has got to have him conflicted.<\/p>\n<p>Good!<\/p>\n<p>And if there&#8217;s a bone in his body that resolves conflicts in favor of what the people actually want, then let&#8217;s make sure he hears real people, and not the \u00a0DFL.<\/p>\n<p>Please write\/call today and every day.<\/p>\n<p>More later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got this from the Gun Owners Civil Rights Alliance: If you do only one thing for gun rights this year, this is it! The Stand Your Ground bill passed the Minnesota House last year. It overwhelmingly passed the Senate last week. Now the bill is headed to Governor Dayton. TODAY! Call Governor Dayton&#8217;s office [&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":[115],"class_list":["post-26480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-victim-disarmament","tag-abm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26480","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=26480"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26482,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26480\/revisions\/26482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}