{"id":42076,"date":"2014-02-25T12:45:12","date_gmt":"2014-02-25T18:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=42076"},"modified":"2014-02-25T12:47:11","modified_gmt":"2014-02-25T18:47:11","slug":"no-retreat-no-surrender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=42076","title":{"rendered":"No Retreat. No Surrender."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While much of conservative Minnesota is having a hard time with &#8220;messaging&#8221;, the Real Americans of Minnesota&#8217;s Second Amendment human rights movement have a clear, resounding one.<\/p>\n<p>This from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gocra.org\">Gun Owners Civil Rights Alliance <\/a>(GOCRA), in their session-eve email blast; it&#8217;s as crystal-clear a statement of principles and positions to the Legislature as you could ask for:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Minnesota&#8217;s law-abiding gun owners will not take the blame for the actions of criminals<br \/>\nWe refuse to be treated like those criminals<\/li>\n<li>You don&#8217;t work for Michael Bloomberg and his billions: you work for your Minnesota constituents!<\/li>\n<li>We know what [Bloomberg&#8217;s] &#8220;universal background check&#8221; proposal really is: universal registration. And we will not sit still for it.<\/li>\n<li>You have a perfectly good criminal control bill, HF1325, co-authored by 99 senators and representatives, waiting for your action<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As always, the gun rights movement &#8211; GOCRA, MN-GOPAC, the TC Gun Owners and Carry Forum, the NRA and the like &#8211; will be working hard to hold back the Metrocrat orcs&#8217; assault on Real Americans&#8217; freedom.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And they need you.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Look &#8211; whatever group you prefer, there&#8217;s one to fit your style, temperament and philosophy.\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Dying to bite off a bite-sized piece of activism?\u00a0 Sign up for GOCRA, and be alerted when action &#8211; phone calls, emails, hearings at the Capitol &#8211; is needed (send &#8217;em a few bucks; they will put &#8217;em to good use).\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Wanna put your money to direct political use, endorsing and influencing elections?\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mngopac.org\/\">Send MNGOPAC a buck or two, or a few hundred<\/a>.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Wanna fight the fight on main street &#8211; and University Avenue, for that matter?\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/tcGunsAndCarry\">Shelley and the crew at TC Gun Owners and Carry Forum<\/a> have been spreading the gospel in the wilderness.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Hell, help out all three.\u00a0 It&#8217;s not like the Orcs are going away any time soon.<\/p>\n<p>As much rhetoric as the Democrats have expended in the past eighty years about class warfare, this is the true class war in America; our would-be &#8220;elites&#8221; want Real America disarmed; the plebeians, the underdogs, the <em>people <\/em>are the Real Americans.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Never let the Legislature forget it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While much of conservative Minnesota is having a hard time with &#8220;messaging&#8221;, the Real Americans of Minnesota&#8217;s Second Amendment human rights movement have a clear, resounding one. This from the Gun Owners Civil Rights Alliance (GOCRA), in their session-eve email blast; it&#8217;s as crystal-clear a statement of principles and positions to the Legislature as you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[269,132,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grass-roots","category-mn-legislature","category-victim-disarmament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42076","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=42076"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42087,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42076\/revisions\/42087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}