This email came out from Rep Heather Martens (DFLiar, HD66A) earlier this week:<\/p>\n
Dear Friend,<\/p>\n
Tomorrow at 10:30 am, the legislature’s committee on Capitol security will decide whether to continue to let people carry loaded guns in the Capitol.<\/p>\n
At a meeting earlier this month, it became clear that some concealed carry permit holders have used their loaded guns for political intimidation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
And there’s your lie.<\/p>\n
There was no “intimidation”.<\/p>\n
Go check for yourself. Call the folks at Capitol Security. They’ll tell you the Second Amendment Rights crowd, guns or no, is the very best-behaved group of protesters that ever comes to the capitol. Friendly, polite to a fault, never even the faintest shred of a problem. Which is an amazing feat with group that always numbers in the hundreds every time they show up.<\/p>\n
Not a single problem. Ever.<\/p>\n
Martens – as always – is lying.<\/p>\n
It’s The Bigotry, Stupid<\/strong>: Martens points out that there’s some fear, classism and bigotry at work here:<\/p>\n
A legislator on the committee expressed disapproval of such behavior. <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
I don’t doubt that “a legislator” might have said something like this. Some DFL Metrocrat no doubt does <\/em>have an aversion to guns, and people carrying them.<\/p>\n
But why do we pay them any more attention than we would a legislator who was afraid of black people?<\/p>\n
It’s entirely possible some ninny is afraid of people exercising their law-abiding rights. \u00a0People get intimidated by free speech, too. \u00a0Do we dignify it with a response? \u00a0Or do we call it what it is?<\/p>\n
(Fact: \u00a0the only “intimidation” carried out by an unelected official during the gun hearings was the loathsome gun-grabber who walked up to the daughter of a GOCRA organizer and told her “you’ll be a better person than your father when you grow up”).<\/p>\n
But he then said nothing should be done because nobody has been killed yet at the Capitol.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Nor will they ever be – by a carry permittee, anyway. Statistically, you are at greater danger of being shot by a Democrat legislator than by a legal carry permit holder.<\/p>\n
I Gotcher Call To Action Right Here<\/strong>: Martens puts out a call to her anemic, arthritic, utterly white little legion:<\/p>\n