{"id":46895,"date":"2014-09-03T05:06:38","date_gmt":"2014-09-03T10:06:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=46895"},"modified":"2014-09-03T16:53:26","modified_gmt":"2014-09-03T21:53:26","slug":"coincidence-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=46895","title":{"rendered":"Coincidence?"},"content":{"rendered":"

This was the first year since the passage of shall issue firearm carry that the Minnesota State Fairgrounds loudly, visibly posted itself as a “gun free zone”.<\/p>\n

The Fair’s spokesperson Brooke Blakey was even just a little bit obnoxious about it<\/a> before the fair started. Near as I could tell, it was the first time anyone associated with the state fair has ever gotten really aggressive about alienating fairgoers with legal carry permits.<\/p>\n

You hardly need me to tell you what happened nex<\/a>t, do you?<\/p>\n

According to State Fair Police Public Information Officer Brooke Blakey<\/strong>, at least two suspects took more than $10,000…The suspects struck when the building was closed to the public, restraining at least one person who had been working in the booth, and a beer supplier.<\/p>\n

Police say this is the first robbery of its kind at the Minnesota State Fair.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The fair has it’s first armed robbery in 150-odd use the the month that a fair officer gets snotty about law-abiding gun owners?<\/p>\n

Pure coincidence, I’m sure.<\/p>\n

CORRECTION:\u00a0 Flawed as her (and, mostly, the Fair\u00a0Board’s) reasoning may be, I misread the piece in which Ms. Blakey was quoted.\u00a0 The obnoxious bit (“She also had talks with gun-rights supporters who – contrary to fair policy – wanted to strap on their sidearms and walk down the middle of Dan Patch Avenue<\/em>“) was written by Delma Francis, in the Minnesota\u00a0Womens Press<\/em>,\u00a0reprinted in the\u00a0Twin Cities Daily Planet<\/em> – both of them shrill leftist outlets supported by liberals with deep pockets.\u00a0<\/p>\n

I apologize for the error.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This was the first year since the passage of shall issue firearm carry that the Minnesota State Fairgrounds loudly, visibly posted itself as a “gun free zone”. The Fair’s spokesperson Brooke Blakey was even just a little bit obnoxious about it before the fair started. Near as I could tell, it was the first time […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,263,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gun-free-zones","category-narrative-for-sale","category-victim-disarmament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46895","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=46895"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46941,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46895\/revisions\/46941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}