{"id":34151,"date":"2013-02-07T07:34:17","date_gmt":"2013-02-07T13:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=34151"},"modified":"2013-02-07T09:42:03","modified_gmt":"2013-02-07T15:42:03","slug":"two-views-of-democracy-in-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=34151","title":{"rendered":"Two Views Of Democracy In Action"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Twenty-odd years ago, when I first got involved in Second Amendment politics, the DFL controlled both chambers of the Legislature and the Governor&#8217;s office as well.<\/p>\n<p>And so there was a constant tug of war every time a putative gun control measure came up. \u00a0Real Americans from greater Minnesota would pack hearings at the Capitol to oppose the bills. \u00a0So the DFL would jockey the hearing times, dates and places around to try to shake off as many outstate voters as possible.<\/p>\n<p>It worked, to an extent; the Real Americans would only outnumber the orcs 600:20 instead of 1200:20.<\/p>\n<p>In the days before there was an internet, that took some doing.<\/p>\n<p>Today?<\/p>\n<p>There are more hearings \u00a0planned for 10AM and 6PM today. \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/405009622926719\/409280212499660\/?notif_t=plan_mall_activity\">For the latest information, go here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Democracy. \u00a0To the 2nd Amendment movement &#8211; it&#8217;s about showing up and being counted. \u00a0To the DFL, it&#8217;s about keeping the wrong people from showing up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twenty-odd years ago, when I first got involved in Second Amendment politics, the DFL controlled both chambers of the Legislature and the Governor&#8217;s office as well. And so there was a constant tug of war every time a putative gun control measure came up. \u00a0Real Americans from greater Minnesota would pack hearings at the Capitol [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,132,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-minnesota-politics","category-mn-legislature","category-victim-disarmament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34151","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=34151"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34153,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34151\/revisions\/34153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}