{"id":26993,"date":"2012-03-23T12:00:01","date_gmt":"2012-03-23T17:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=26993"},"modified":"2012-03-23T12:16:46","modified_gmt":"2012-03-23T17:16:46","slug":"model-legislation-wed-like-to-see","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=26993","title":{"rendered":"Model Legislation We’d Like To See"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since the Dems have their undies in a knot about “model legislation (when it comes from conservative think tanks, anyway), I think it’s time we mere citizens took our shot at the practice.<\/p>\n

With that in mind, I’m going to submit a couple of model bills of my own.<\/p>\n

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HF. No. 0001, \u00a0as introduced – 88th Legislative Session (2013-2014)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Posted on Mar 23, 2012<\/p>\n

A bill for an act relating to public safety, specifying certain behaviors from legislators and appointed officials who referred to the “Stand Your Ground” act as a “Shoot First” bill.<\/p>\n

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BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
Section 1. Any public official, as defined in Section 2, who has ever gone<\/del>\u00a0shall go on record referring to a “Stand Your Ground” bill as a “Shoot First” bill, shall be enjoined, when under threat of death or great bodily harm, from firing before the assailant shall have carried out one act of violent assault upon that official as defined in Section 3.<\/div>\n
Section 2. Public officials affected by this proposal include the Governor, any official appointed by the Governor, any State Senator or Representative, any Mayor, elected City Council member, and any municipal police chief or county sheriff.<\/div>\n
Section 3. \u00a0Violent assaults include discharge of a firearm, swinging, slashing or stabbing with an edged weapon, battery with a blunt object, or any other form of lethal force with intent to kill or cause harm.<\/div>\n
Section 4. Conviction for failure to shoot second shall be treated as a gross misdemeanor.<\/div>\n
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HF. No. 0002, \u00a0as introduced – 88th Legislative Session (2013-2014)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Posted on Mar 23, 2012<\/p>\n

A bill for an act relating to public safety, providing penalties for county attorneys, assistant county attorneys and appointed police chiefs and sheriffs who intentionally mislead the public in regard to the laws they are sworn to enforce.<\/p>\n

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BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
Section 1. Any County Prosecutor who, in a public forum as specified in Section 2, misleads the public on matters of law or proposed law, shall be guilty of a felony.<\/div>\n
Section 2. Public forums include broadcast and cable television, newspapers, radio or websites.<\/div>\n
Section 3. \u00a0Upon conviction, violators shall be subject to forfeiture of elected or appointed office and a ban on public employment for life.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
We’ll call it “Backstrom’s Law”.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Since the Dems have their undies in a knot about “model legislation (when it comes from conservative think tanks, anyway), I think it’s time we mere citizens took our shot at the practice. With that in mind, I’m going to submit a couple of model bills of my own. ———- HF. No. 0001, \u00a0as introduced […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-and-punishment","category-tc-media-bias"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26993","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=26993"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27017,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26993\/revisions\/27017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}