{"id":34420,"date":"2013-02-20T12:59:05","date_gmt":"2013-02-20T18:59:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=34420"},"modified":"2013-10-30T12:22:03","modified_gmt":"2013-10-30T17:22:03","slug":"the-hill-to-die-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=34420","title":{"rendered":"The Hill To Die On"},"content":{"rendered":"

We Real Americans – that defined as “Americans who support\u00a0all ten Amendments\u00a0<\/em>in the Bill of Rights, the Second and Tenth as devoutly as the First and Fourth – know that giving\u00a0any\u00a0<\/em>ground with the gun grabbers is a fool’s bargain. \u00a0The metrocrat Orcs will exploit any opening we Real Americans give them to harass us, badger us, turn us – the most law-abiding people in this country – into criminals.<\/p>\n

The “assault weapon” bans are – or were – stupid, and would not affect crime in the least (or at least would never reduce it). \u00a0Magazine restrictions are also of no actual value as anything but harassing the law-abiding, as well as putting them (in rare cases) at a disadvantage to criminals.<\/p>\n

But it gets worse.<\/p>\n

This just in from GOCRA: \u00a0The worst of them all is up on the dock now:<\/p>\n

The most dangerous bill this session is not a magazine ban, or an “assault weapon” ban. It’s universal registration, masquerading as “universal background checks.”<\/p>\n

It’s called SF 458, and it will be heard on THURSDAY at the state capitol. GOCRA will be there to fight it. Will you?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’ll give it my best shot. \u00a0Hope you can too.<\/p>\n

Why is this bill so bad? \u00a0For starters, because it’ll tack $25 onto the sale prices of a firearm, plus $25 for permit to purchase – which makes firearms $50 harder to obtain for the poor (who are, after all, the ones the DFL wants to disarm…first).<\/p>\n

Worse? \u00a0It’s registration<\/em>! \u00a0It doesn’t go by the name, but that’s exactly what it is; a paper trail leading, over time, to every single gun in the United States.<\/p>\n

This bill needs to be not just defeated; it needs to be crushed and humiliated. \u00a0Any outstate DFLer that supports it needs to feel the wrath of\u00a0every\u00a0<\/em>gun owner in their district, sports or self-defense. \u00a0Any Republican who supports this abomination must be primaried and expunged from public life.<\/p>\n

No retreat.<\/p>\n

No surrender.<\/p>\n

No compromise on the rights of the law-abiding.<\/p>\n

No mercy for the politicians who get it wrong.<\/p>\n

Here’s the hearing schedule; all hearings are in room 15 of the State Capitol. Get there two hours early to get a seat in the hearing room, or use overflow seating with a closed-circuit feed of the hearings.<\/p>\n

Please let us know if you plan to attend (and which session) by sending an email to volunteer@gocra.org.<\/p>\n

Thursday, February 21<\/strong>
\nNoon:\u00a0SF 235,\u00a0458<\/strong>, 69<\/p>\n

Thursday, February 21<\/strong>
\n6 p.m.: \u00a0Public testimony on SF 235, 503, 69, 458<\/strong>, 557, 520, 400, 413 and 568<\/p>\n

Friday, February 22<\/strong><\/p>\n

Noon: SF 503, 557, 520, 400, 413, 568<\/p>\n

You can read summaries of all gun grab bills at the Gocra website<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And remember; don’t commit a felony!<\/strong>\u00a0Only liberals get away with gun crimes, so please remember to notify the DPS as required if you intend to carry at the Capitol. GOCRA’s simple instructions are right here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We Real Americans – that defined as “Americans who support\u00a0all ten Amendments\u00a0in the Bill of Rights, the Second and Tenth as devoutly as the First and Fourth – know that giving\u00a0any\u00a0ground with the gun grabbers is a fool’s bargain. \u00a0The metrocrat Orcs will exploit any opening we Real Americans give them to harass us, badger […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[132,22,100],"tags":[270],"class_list":["post-34420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mn-legislature","category-victim-disarmament","category-your-papers-please","tag-2nd-amendment-grass-roots"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34420","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=34420"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39417,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34420\/revisions\/39417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}