{"id":34433,"date":"2013-02-21T08:23:18","date_gmt":"2013-02-21T14:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=34433"},"modified":"2013-10-30T12:22:03","modified_gmt":"2013-10-30T17:22:03","slug":"be-intimidated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=34433","title":{"rendered":"Be Intimidated!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last week, it came to our attention that the local lefty alt-media was shilling for the DFL meme that anti-gun Representatives felt “intimidated” by the presence of all the gun owners – people with carry permits who’ve passed criminal background checks, and are thus most likely less apt to resort to violence than, well, the Representatives and Senators on the panels – in the audience.<\/p>\n

I feel I should respond to this.<\/p>\n

I’ll neither confirm nor deny that I have a carry permit, a handgun, or permission to carry in the Capitol complex. \u00a0If I do, I would never carry openly, primary out of deference to the warped sensitivities of the ones complaining; “pick your battles”, I always say.<\/p>\n

But I’ll urge you, gun-grabbing DFL legislator, to\u00a0be\u00a0<\/em>intimidated.<\/p>\n

Be intimidated by the fact that I, like most of the pro-Gun Rights people I know, know more about the issue than you do<\/strong>. \u00a0Be intimidated that I make the anti-gun, pro-gun control argument better than you, and better than Heather Martens, for that matter – and can then turn around and destroy it. \u00a0With facts, history, the law, and a lot of style.<\/p>\n

Be intimidated by the fact that I, and most of the pro-Gun Rights people I know,<\/strong> take that superior knowledge out to my fellow MInnesotans, one by one, and win them over<\/strong>, just as we have been for 25 years now.<\/p>\n

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Be intimidated by the fact that I am one member of what was, 10 years ago, one of the most amazing grassroots political movements in Minnesota political history<\/strong>, the Gun Owners Civil Rights Alliance which, with no help from corporate donors or Rockefellers or PACs, started rolling a big heavy rock up a very high, steep hill in 1995 – and won the issue in 2003, playing a key role in flipping the House of Representatives along the way.<\/p>\n

Be intimidated by the fact that GOCRA, and other gun rights groups and the people they represent,\u00a0<\/strong>are coming back bigger and tougher and more focused than ever before.<\/p>\n

Be intimidated by the fact that our movement adds more people every day than will ever show up at a gun control rally<\/strong>, and that every one of those people understands the issue better than any of the anti-gunners, and most of \u00a0you legislators as well.<\/p>\n

Be intimidated by the fact that we have energy, savvy, and the grim determination to crush you<\/strong>, rhetorically speaking. \u00a0We’ve been through this before. \u00a0We’ve run the marathon – the seven-year battle to enact Shall Issue. \u00a0You’ve run the sprint. \u00a0Who’s going to be still up and standing and fighting in a year? \u00a0Two years? Four years?<\/p>\n

My gun – if I have one, and if I’m carrying it? \u00a0That’s literally, figuratively and statistically the least of your worries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last week, it came to our attention that the local lefty alt-media was shilling for the DFL meme that anti-gun Representatives felt “intimidated” by the presence of all the gun owners – people with carry permits who’ve passed criminal background checks, and are thus most likely less apt to resort to violence than, well, the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,132,22,100],"tags":[270],"class_list":["post-34433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-minnesota-politics","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\/34433","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=34433"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34435,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34433\/revisions\/34435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}