{"id":34469,"date":"2013-02-22T06:58:29","date_gmt":"2013-02-22T12:58:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=34469"},"modified":"2013-02-22T07:18:23","modified_gmt":"2013-02-22T13:18:23","slug":"for-the-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=34469","title":{"rendered":"For The Record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I try to stay civil about most things.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike my more demented detractors (you know who you are), I try to argue issues, not personalities.<\/p>\n<p>So with that in mind, some take umbrage when I call the sides in the gun control debate &#8220;Real Americans&#8221; and &#8220;orcs&#8221;. \u00a0It&#8217;s really fairly simple; either you support the Bill of Rights, all ten Amendments of it, the Second and Tenth along with the First and Fourth, <em>at the very least in terms of their intent,\u00a0<\/em>or you might as well be a North Korean <em>kommissar<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway &#8211; the Minnesota State Senate yesterday voted on a resolution upholding the Second Amendment.<\/p>\n<p>And the DFL voted against it &#8211; voted against the Second Amendment &#8211; on a straight line party vote.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?attachment_id=34470\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-34470\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34470\" title=\"17012_396739880422394_1547734159_n\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/17012_396739880422394_1547734159_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"354\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/17012_396739880422394_1547734159_n.jpg 480w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/17012_396739880422394_1547734159_n-300x221.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/17012_396739880422394_1547734159_n-406x300.jpg 406w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What this means is that the Senate DFL wants you to know that &#8220;we&#8217;re not coming for your hunting rifles and shotguns &#8211;\u00a0<em>yet<\/em>. \u00a0We just want to leave our options open&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>This photo needs to be sent to every outstate, exurban and second-tier suburban household in districts with DFL Senators. \u00a0To the DFL, the Constitution is just a series of means to their ends, and &#8220;liberty&#8221; is a quaint hindrance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I try to stay civil about most things. Unlike my more demented detractors (you know who you are), I try to argue issues, not personalities. So with that in mind, some take umbrage when I call the sides in the gun control debate &#8220;Real Americans&#8221; and &#8220;orcs&#8221;. \u00a0It&#8217;s really fairly simple; either you support the [&hellip;]<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mn-legislature","category-victim-disarmament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34469","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=34469"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34477,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34469\/revisions\/34477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}