{"id":40206,"date":"2013-11-27T12:00:24","date_gmt":"2013-11-27T18:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=40206"},"modified":"2013-11-27T11:47:17","modified_gmt":"2013-11-27T17:47:17","slug":"a-holiday-present-to-protect-mn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=40206","title":{"rendered":"A Holiday Present To “Protect” MN"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Select Committee on Capitol Security met yesterday<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

They moved to hire some new State Patrol and rent-a-cops.\u00a0\u00a0 There wasn’t a whole lot of controversy there, although Representative Woodard and Senator Ingebrigtsen noted that security in the parts of the Capitol that need it is already pretty good.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But the reason reason people paid attention to yesterday’s meeting was because Rep. Michael Paymar intended to push his proposal to ban legally-carried firearms in Capitol complex buildings (the Capitol, the State Office Building and the Judicial building).\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u00a0More than 800 Minnesotans have filed with the DPS to indicate that they have a permit to carry a firearm and may bring their pistol into the Capitol. Originally, the draft recommendation would have required gun owners to update that notification annually; at Ingebrigtsen\u2019s urging, that timeframe was adjusted to renewing the notification every five years, and was adopted by the committee.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In other words, you renew your notification as often as you renew your permit.\u00a0 Truth be told, I already thought I had to do that…<\/p>\n

…if, hypothetically, I had a carry permit and desired to carry at the Capitol.\u00a0<\/p>\n

After that bit of fairly sensible legislation, it was looney-time:<\/p>\n

Paymar argued that the fact that the Capitol had so far been spared any violent altercations was not evidence that current safety measures are adequate.<\/p>\n

\u201cHaving a \u2018cross your fingers\u2019 kind of policy coming out of this entity, which is charged with making recommendations about public safety on the Capitol complex, to me, is irresponsible,\u201d said Paymar, who chairs the House Public Safety Finance and Policy Committee.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Mijnnesota’s carry-permit holders are the single constituency in Minnesota least <\/em>likely to cause a problem , at the Capitol or anywhere else.\u00a0 Ever\u00a0 Period.\u00a0<\/p>\n

No, seriously – Minnesotans at large commit murder at the rate a little over 2 per 100,000 people per year.\u00a0 There’s been one unjustified homicide by a carry-permittee in ten years; the math breaks down to .1\/5 million Minnesotans\/year, or .002\/100,000 annually.\u00a0 That’s right around three orders of magnitude safer.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Mr. Paymar would more aptly worry about one of his Saint Paul constituents – perhaps the many supporters of terrorist-accomplice Kathleen Soliah, who live in Paymar’s neighborhood and tacitly condoned her activities in the seventies – freaking out and killing people in the Capitol than the state’s legal carry permittees.\u00a0<\/p>\n

No, this wasn’t done because of any danger, real or perceived or even fabricated.\u00a0 This was done to try to try to salvage at least a smidgen of “Protect” MN’s narrative from this past session – the addlepated notion that legislators were “intimidated” by gun owners who carried openly and legally during last spring’s epic waste of taxpayer time<\/del> hearings on Rep. Paymar, Hausman and Martens’ various gun grab bills.\u00a0 The staff at Capitol Security refute that idea with prejudice; ask them for yourself.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Emphasis added in this next bit:<\/p>\n

Ingebrigtsen pushed back, and pointed out that Gov. Mark Dayton had already said publicly he does not favor a move to ban firearms in the Capitol<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve also got the governor saying the same thing,\u201d Ingebrigtsen said. \u201c[Dayton] doesn\u2019t see anything wrong with law-abiding citizens carrying handguns on the Capitol complex.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The vote fell, 2-2 (ties are counted as defeats); Lt. Governor Yvonne Prettner Solon (there’s a trivia question for you) and Paymar voted for it, Ingebrigtsen and Woodard voted nay, SCOM justice Lori Gildea abstained (she might have to hear a court case on the issue someday…)<\/p>\n

…and Ann Rest, a DFL Senator from Plymouth who is as electorally bulletproof as an Armored Humvee, didn’t show up.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Don’t think for a moment that was an accident.\u00a0 Even safe DFLers are nervous about the Metrocrats’ insane obsession with disarming the law-abiding.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Not that they’re going to stop them.\u00a0<\/p>\n

No, that’s our job.\u00a0 At the ballot box.\u00a0<\/p>\n

(NOTE TO DFL LEGISLATORS:\u00a0\u00a0 If I had <\/em>a carry permit, I doubt I’d ever carry openly.\u00a0 It’s not my style.\u00a0 But feel free to be intimidated – not by any gun I’d hypothetically carry, but by the fact that I can shred through every single actual factual assertion that Heather Martens and Richard Carlbom make about the gun control issue like a riding mower going through a daisy patch, and not break a sweat.\u00a0 Be intimdated by the fact that if either Martens or Carlbom debated me, or any of 500 other gun rights advocates, in a face to face, open debate, I’d fold them up like origami swans and make them scamper away like scared bunnies.\u00a0 Be intimidated by the fact that I, myself, have convinced liberal Democrats that you are wrong, and I’m just getting started.\u00a0 Ignore any gun I might hypothetically be carrying.\u00a0 Be intimidated by the weapon between my ears.\u00a0 On this issue, your side is carrying a pellet pistol; I’ve got a .44 Magnum, and I don’t mean one of those wimpy four inch barrels, either)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Select Committee on Capitol Security met yesterday.\u00a0 They moved to hire some new State Patrol and rent-a-cops.\u00a0\u00a0 There wasn’t a whole lot of controversy there, although Representative Woodard and Senator Ingebrigtsen noted that security in the parts of the Capitol that need it is already pretty good.\u00a0 But the reason reason people paid attention […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[269,18,51,22],"tags":[274],"class_list":["post-40206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grass-roots","category-pc","category-liberal-tyranny","category-victim-disarmament","tag-protectmn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40206","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=40206"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40210,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40206\/revisions\/40210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}