{"id":27237,"date":"2012-04-02T12:30:05","date_gmt":"2012-04-02T17:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=27237"},"modified":"2012-04-02T11:58:09","modified_gmt":"2012-04-02T16:58:09","slug":"i-renew-the-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=27237","title":{"rendered":"I Renew The Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fifteen years ago, as the Minnesota Personal Protection Act (aka “Concealed Carry”, which is a misnomer – it’s really “Shall Issue”) started picking up steam in Minnesota, it also started picking up detractors. \u00a0Many of the names involved were exactly the same bunch that’s bagging on “Stand Your Ground” today. \u00a0They predicted, as is their dismal wont, blood in the streets and shootings over fender-benders and bla bla bla.<\/p>\n

Sound familiar?<\/p>\n

Judging by the record of the 94,000-odd <\/em>carry permittees in Minnesota over nearly a decade, they were as wrong then as they are now.<\/p>\n

Anyway – in 1997, I challenged any <\/em>liberal detractor of “Shall Issue” to a debate in any forum on the facts and merits of the issue. \u00a0At that point, I wasn’t even a small-potatoes D-list basement pundit; I was a guy writing on a politics list-server. \u00a0 Nobody took me up on the challenge.<\/p>\n

Things have changed a bit; I am <\/em>that small-potatoes D-list basement pundit. \u00a0And I’m still right on the issue.<\/p>\n

And I reiterate my challenge. \u00a0I will take on any <\/em>liberal detractor of “Stand Your Ground”, in a debate on the actual facts and substance of the issue. \u00a0(That’s a bit of a trick, there – the left’s case really has <\/em>few facts and less substance). \u00a0We can have the debate in any mutually-agreeable forum – my show, your show, at Old Mexico or the Ramsey County Library, or on the steps of the Capitol at dawn for all I care.<\/p>\n

The only qualifications?<\/p>\n