{"id":27255,"date":"2012-04-04T07:24:14","date_gmt":"2012-04-04T12:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=27255"},"modified":"2020-07-28T18:01:10","modified_gmt":"2020-07-28T23:01:10","slug":"you-dont-like-those-numbers-well-keep-making-them-up-til-you-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=27255","title":{"rendered":"You Don’t Like Those Numbers? We’ll Keep Making Them Up ‘Til You Do!"},"content":{"rendered":"

There used to be firearms ranges in the Twin Cities – places where shooters could go and practice and, perhaps more importantly, teach the kids how to handle and, even moreso, how not <\/em>to handle guns.<\/p>\n

Metro-area DFL governments have pretty much squeezed out all the ranges within 20 miles of the Twin Cities proper. \u00a0Today, with the exception of Bill’s Gun Range in Robbinsdale, you have to drive to Burnsville, Lakeville, Blaine and such (along with a private club in Oakdale with some public shooting hours) to find a public range.<\/p>\n

Not a few of those old ranges – Braemar in Edina, for example – were absorbed by Twin Cities law enforcement; they became ranges for cops. \u00a0They’re maintained at public expense. \u00a0And while cops need plenty of practice with their firearms, it’s not like the ranges are hopping 24\/7. \u00a0There’s slack time (not that the cops shouldn’t get some more practice yet<\/a>). \u00a0And since the public is paying for that unoccupied time, why not give the public access to the ranges they pay for<\/em>? \u00a0If only for the safety instruction that, statistically, saves vastly more lives than any gun control measure?<\/p>\n

And so Tom Hackbarth sponsored a bill<\/a> that’d open up ranges to the public for firearm safety instruction.<\/p>\n

And the bill was debated for an hour yesterday.<\/p>\n

And during that debate, Assistant Minority Leader Kim Norton claimed that it would cost either $500,000 or $1,000,000 to convert these ranges for public use; according to various accounts, either Norton raised the figure in mid-debate, or a metro DFLer did.<\/p>\n

That’s right – in the special little world of the DFL, you need to convert a range (which was <\/em>a public range, in the case of Braemar among others) to handle civilian bullets.<\/p>\n

Clearly the Sheriff’s Association wants this bill killed. \u00a0Public ranges aren’t for the public after all.<\/p>\n

And if you’re a parent in North Minneapolis or Frogtown who wants to teach your kids gun safety? \u00a0You gotta drive and drive and drive and pay and pay and pay.<\/p>\n

Because the DFL doesn’t want all those pesky brown-skinned people to know how to handle guns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There used to be firearms ranges in the Twin Cities – places where shooters could go and practice and, perhaps more importantly, teach the kids how to handle and, even moreso, how not to handle guns. Metro-area DFL governments have pretty much squeezed out all the ranges within 20 miles of the Twin Cities proper. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[132,22],"tags":[422],"class_list":["post-27255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mn-legislature","category-victim-disarmament","tag-kim-norton-idiot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27255","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=27255"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74830,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27255\/revisions\/74830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}