{"id":33135,"date":"2013-01-03T12:10:14","date_gmt":"2013-01-03T18:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=33135"},"modified":"2013-01-03T13:16:33","modified_gmt":"2013-01-03T19:16:33","slug":"stuck-on-stupid-ineffective-trivial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=33135","title":{"rendered":"Stuck On Stupid, Ineffective, Trivial"},"content":{"rendered":"

To: \u00a0The Saint Paul City Council
\nFrom: Mitch Berg, one of your few remaining ATMs
\nRe: \u00a0Your work ethic<\/p>\n

The Saint Paul City Council, having saved the downtown economic scene, balanced the city’s budget without gang-raping the city’s few remaining productive taxpayers, preventing a free-fall in property values…<\/p>\n

…sheesh, I’m sorry. \u00a0I was laughing. \u00a0But it wasn’t the mirthful laugh of the happy and carefree. \u00a0It was more the resigned hacking cough of the guy in the engine room of a ship whose captain just keeps on ramming icebergs, since he’s still technically “afloat”, just to see what’ll happen.<\/p>\n

Where was I?<\/p>\n

Oh, yeah. \u00a0The City Council wants to ban scary guns<\/a>, provided that they’re just the ones in the hands of the law-abiding Minnesotan:<\/p>\n

At the Wednesday, Jan. 2 council meeting, they amended their annual request to lawmakers to include a crackdown on semi-automatic weapons and high capacity magazines.<\/p>\n

They join a chorus of municipal bodies, politicians and Hollywood celebrities clamoring for tighter gun laws in the wake of the horrific school shootings in Newtown, Connecticut.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Let’s summarize here:<\/p>\n