{"id":37743,"date":"2013-08-08T12:05:10","date_gmt":"2013-08-08T17:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=37743"},"modified":"2013-08-08T12:06:50","modified_gmt":"2013-08-08T17:06:50","slug":"paymar-bitchy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=37743","title":{"rendered":"Paymar:  Bitchy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Paymar is back.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/PaymarLiar.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>His attempt to make the law-abiding gun owner pay for the Newtown Massacre squibbed in the last session; even his own party deserted his effort; even some sensible DFLers like Rep. Hilstrom threw Paymar and his metrocrat extremists under the bus.<\/p>\n<p>But <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=35346\">he and his buddies in the mainstream media <\/a>are trying a different tack; around the time his bills bogged down amid party defections and an avalanche of public opposition, Paymar and the metrocrat extremists started a whispering campaign that the legislators were &#8220;intimidated&#8221; by the number of citizens who showed up at the hearings with firearms &#8211; legally, naturally (the law allows people to carry in the Capitol complex if they are legal carry permittees and they notify the head of Capitol security).<\/p>\n<p>Of course, it is an objective fact that Paymar is vastly safer in a room full of carry permittees &#8211; who&#8217;ve passed background checks and completed training in the subject &#8211; than he&#8217;d be in a room full of, well, DFLers. Or any other private citizen. Because it&#8217;s an objective fact that carry permittees, nationwide and in Minnesota, are a couple of orders of magnitude less likely to commit <em>any<\/em> crime than the general public are.<\/p>\n<p>But Paymar wants to continue the slander of his fellow citizen; he&#8217;s authoring a bill for the next session that&#8217;d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.revisor.mn.gov\/bin\/bldbill.php?bill=H0275.0.html&amp;session=ls88\">clamp down on citizens carrying in the Capitol complex<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not just a solution in search of a problem, of course; it&#8217;s a bitchy little slap at the law-abiding citizen.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t wait until he&#8217;s in the minority again.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Paymar is back. &nbsp; His attempt to make the law-abiding gun owner pay for the Newtown Massacre squibbed in the last session; even his own party deserted his effort; even some sensible DFLers like Rep. Hilstrom threw Paymar and his metrocrat extremists under the bus. But he and his buddies in the mainstream media [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,79,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gun-free-zones","category-slander-files","category-victim-disarmament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37743","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=37743"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37753,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37743\/revisions\/37753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}