{"id":32193,"date":"2012-12-04T12:00:39","date_gmt":"2012-12-04T18:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=32193"},"modified":"2013-10-02T09:09:07","modified_gmt":"2013-10-02T14:09:07","slug":"lets-try-this-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=32193","title":{"rendered":"Let&#8217;s Try This Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To: \u00a0Dog Gone, Chanting Point Congruency Analyst, &#8220;Penigma&#8221;<br \/>\nFrom: \u00a0M Berg, overly patient guy<br \/>\nRe: \u00a0&#8220;Crap Legislation&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ms. Gone,<\/p>\n<p>Last \u00a0legislative session, in the wake of Governor <del>Messinger<\/del> Dayton \u00a0vetoing the &#8220;Stand Your Ground&#8221; Bill &#8211; which had just been passed by a bipartisan majority of legislators &#8211; you insisted volubly that the bill was &#8220;crap legislation&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>When asked repeatedly to please elaborate with details as to exactly\u00a0<em>how\u00a0<\/em>the bill &#8211; which, I remind you, was passed with a convincing bipartisan majority, and was largely identical to similar laws that have been roundly successful nationwide &#8211; was &#8220;crap&#8221;, you begged off due to time commitments.<\/p>\n<p>Fair enough.<\/p>\n<p>But you&#8217;ve not only found time since then to&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>leave dozens of your, er, long comments in my comment section<\/li>\n<li>indulge in a bit of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mnpact.org\/sblog\/comments.php?id=3581#comments\">unearned name-calling<\/a><\/li>\n<li>trumpet your own dearth of information on the subject (complaining, for example, that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=31591&amp;cpage=1#comment-106643\">Minnesota didn&#8217;t share the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension&#8217;s information<\/a> with the federal NICS database &#8211; a shortcoming the Cornish bill would have fixed)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So enough equivocating, dodging, and smoke-screening. \u00a0Why, exactly, was Cornish&#8217;s bill &#8220;crap?&#8221; \u00a0Please be specific; attempt to submit actual facts that logically connect to a thesis, so we can <em>debate the issue.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think you can. \u00a0I think you were reciting the chanting points the left put out on the subject &#8211; which I have spent years patiently, laboriously, factually and completely debunking on this blog, and will no doubt do again after 2014 &#8211; and you don&#8217;t really understand the issue. \u00a0In fact, if I were a gambling man, I&#8217;d bet serious bank on it.<\/p>\n<p>But by all means go to it!<\/p>\n<p>That is all!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To: \u00a0Dog Gone, Chanting Point Congruency Analyst, &#8220;Penigma&#8221; From: \u00a0M Berg, overly patient guy Re: \u00a0&#8220;Crap Legislation&#8221; Ms. Gone, Last \u00a0legislative session, in the wake of Governor Messinger Dayton \u00a0vetoing the &#8220;Stand Your Ground&#8221; Bill &#8211; which had just been passed by a bipartisan majority of legislators &#8211; you insisted volubly that the bill was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,22],"tags":[249],"class_list":["post-32193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","category-victim-disarmament","tag-open-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32193","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=32193"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32198,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32193\/revisions\/32198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}