{"id":41732,"date":"2014-02-13T12:15:53","date_gmt":"2014-02-13T18:15:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=41732"},"modified":"2014-02-13T06:15:45","modified_gmt":"2014-02-13T12:15:45","slug":"this-is-what-ensnarement-looks-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=41732","title":{"rendered":"“This Is What Ensnarement Looks Like!”"},"content":{"rendered":"

When Minnesota’s carry law went into effect in 2003, people – some of them pro-Victim-Disarmament, some of them unaligned but curious – asked “why does the law force stores that don’t want people carrying to put up those stupid signs?”<\/p>\n

To prevent situations like\u00a0this; Dwayne Ferguson of Buffalo, NY, a “community organizer” with a carry permit, racked up a felony charge<\/a>\u00a0because he didn’t know that the building he was in was a no-gun-zone.<\/p>\n

Granted, schools are generally no-go zones for carry permittees everywhere, and you’re supposed <\/em>to know where to go and where not to. \u00a0 But the organizer had himself campaigned for the law that gave him one of his felonies.<\/p>\n

Which is why it’s droll hearing people who normally rail against the law-abiding gun owner defending this particular organizer:<\/p>\n

Those who have worked with him also said they believe it was an honest mistake.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m sure Dwayne went into the school not thinking he had the gun on him,\u201d said Rev. James E. Giles, a friend of Ferguson and president of Back to Basics Outreach Ministries. \u201cWe know this for a fact, that he called out to a Buffalo police lieutenant asking why the school was in lockdown, and that they were looking for a man with a gun.<\/p>\n

\u201cDwayne\u2019s reaction was to get his kids \u2013 he had about 50 of them \u2013 and make sure they were safe,\u201d Giles explained. \u201cHe led them into the cafeteria and closed the doors.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But Mr. Ferguson is fairly likely screwed. Because the law is the law, even if you’re a on the left.<\/p>\n

Unless you’re David Gregory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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