{"id":39012,"date":"2013-10-15T12:00:59","date_gmt":"2013-10-15T17:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=39012"},"modified":"2013-10-15T07:52:07","modified_gmt":"2013-10-15T12:52:07","slug":"thanks-but-no-thanks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=39012","title":{"rendered":"Thanks But No Thanks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, we <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=38934\">discussed the thesis <\/a>of a couple of obscure academics, that the Paymar\/Hausman\/Martens gun-grab agenda in Minnesota failed last session because of racism &#8211; which would require you to believe that white metrocrat DFLers like Alice Hausman, Sandy Pappas and Michael Paymar are less anti-gun than Bobby Joe Champion and Rena Moran.<\/p>\n<p>I posited a couple of counter theories.<\/p>\n<p>And, today, we see that\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2013\/10\/14\/colorado-gov-hickenlooper-suggests-gun-control-groups-stay-away-from-recall\/2969257\/?utm_source=dlvr.it&amp;utm_medium=twitter&amp;dlvrit=206567\">the liberal hamster governor of Colorado, John Hickenlooper, has a theory of his own<\/a>; Coloradans just aren&#8217;t into all of those bungling, high-pressure outsiders coming to town from New York and trying to take their guns:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Colorado is a state that people like to be themselves and solve their own problems,&#8221; the Democratic governor said in an interview with Capital Download, USA TODAY&#8217;s weekly video newsmaker series. &#8220;They don&#8217;t really like outside organizations meddling in their affairs, and maybe the NRA gets a pass on that.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But (it is) probably not a bad idea&#8221; for gun-control groups, such as the one established by New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, to curb their efforts if gun-rights activists collect enough signatures to force a recall vote on state Sen. Evie Hudak, a two-term Democrat from a suburban district north of Denver, he said.<\/p>\n<p>If Republicans succeed in gaining her seat, Democrats would lose their 18-17 edge in the state Senate.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If this happens &#8211; and when the time comes, I&#8217;m going to send a few bucks to help ensure it does &#8211; it&#8217;ll be one of the biggest grassroots turnarounds in history.<\/p>\n<p>And so I say &#8220;Heck of a job, Bloomie. \u00a0Keep up the good work. \u00a0Find another crisis not to waste!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, we discussed the thesis of a couple of obscure academics, that the Paymar\/Hausman\/Martens gun-grab agenda in Minnesota failed last session because of racism &#8211; which would require you to believe that white metrocrat DFLers like Alice Hausman, Sandy Pappas and Michael Paymar are less anti-gun than Bobby Joe Champion and Rena Moran. I [&hellip;]<\/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-39012","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\/39012","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=39012"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39028,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39012\/revisions\/39028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}