{"id":40876,"date":"2013-01-02T07:00:52","date_gmt":"2013-01-02T13:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=40876"},"modified":"2013-12-31T10:16:47","modified_gmt":"2013-12-31T16:16:47","slug":"tipping-their-hand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=40876","title":{"rendered":"Tipping Their Hand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When you try to debate the Second Amendment with a &#8220;reasonable&#8221;, &#8220;moderate&#8221; gun control advocate, they frequently take great pains to reassure the audience &#8220;we&#8217;re not coming after the rights of the law-abiding citizen!&#8221;.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And maybe some of them, the (mini-van full of) rank and file of the Minnesota gun grabber movement, believe it.<\/p>\n<p>But their leaders?\u00a0 Not so much.<\/p>\n<p>Joan Peterson is the <em>doyenne <\/em>of &#8220;Protect MN&#8221;; think &#8220;Mussolini&#8221; to Rep. Heather Martens&#8217; Count Ciano.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And her manifesto is&#8230;well, manifest, if you just bother to read it.<\/p>\n<p>Mark Okern of the Minnesota Gun Owners PAC <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mngopac.org\/2013\/11\/what-the-lemmings-at-protect-minnesota-really-want\/\">did<\/a>.\u00a0 Read the whole thing.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And remember it during the next session, when the gun grabbers try to play &#8220;reasonable&#8221;.\u00a0 Joan Peterson is the real thing; the movement&#8217;s inner <em>id, <\/em>the one with no compunctions about saying what she&#8217;s really after (since in her life she&#8217;s apparently never needed compunctions of any kind).<\/p>\n<p>Read it.\u00a0 Circulate it among your friends, especially shooters that might go squishy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you try to debate the Second Amendment with a &#8220;reasonable&#8221;, &#8220;moderate&#8221; gun control advocate, they frequently take great pains to reassure the audience &#8220;we&#8217;re not coming after the rights of the law-abiding citizen!&#8221;.\u00a0 And maybe some of them, the (mini-van full of) rank and file of the Minnesota gun grabber movement, believe it. But [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40876","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=40876"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40879,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40876\/revisions\/40879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}