{"id":36461,"date":"2013-05-24T10:00:53","date_gmt":"2013-05-24T15:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=36461"},"modified":"2013-05-24T07:20:14","modified_gmt":"2013-05-24T12:20:14","slug":"its-a-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=36461","title":{"rendered":"It’s A Start"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Protect Minnesota”, the checkbook advocacy group run by Representative Heather Martens<\/a> (DFL-HD66A), usually complains that gun control is supported by the vast majority of Americans and Minnesotans; that\u00a0they\u00a0<\/em>are the real majority.<\/p>\n

They put out this graph showing what groups spend what:<\/p>\n

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And it sure looks like the pro-gun groups outspend the orcs, doesn’t it?<\/p>\n

But what does the graph not\u00a0<\/em>tell you about political spending on this issue?<\/p>\n

The NRA gets get the\u00a0uncountably vast\u00a0<\/em>majority of its funding from individual members; the orcs like to complain that they’re funded by the firearms industry – as if that were in and of itself a black mark against the group, even if it were true in any meaningful context.<\/p>\n

I’m not familiar with the NSSF’s funding, and I know the GOA is even more grassroots than the NRA.<\/p>\n

As to the Brady Factory and the VPC? \u00a0Both are funded by the Joyce Foundation. \u00a0As to “Mayors Against Illegal Guns?” \u00a0It’s largely funded by big-government utopian plutocrat Michael Bloomberg and his circle, and most of that money seems to go to paying the group’s members’ bail and legal costs<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Protect Minnesota”, the checkbook advocacy group run by Representative Heather Martens (DFL-HD66A), usually complains that gun control is supported by the vast majority of Americans and Minnesotans; that\u00a0they\u00a0are the real majority. They put out this graph showing what groups spend what: And it sure looks like the pro-gun groups outspend the orcs, doesn’t it? But […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-victim-disarmament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36461","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=36461"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36464,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36461\/revisions\/36464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}