{"id":49071,"date":"2014-11-12T05:00:57","date_gmt":"2014-11-12T11:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=49071"},"modified":"2014-11-12T09:21:58","modified_gmt":"2014-11-12T15:21:58","slug":"49071","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=49071","title":{"rendered":"Creative Dissension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It\u2019s be wonderful if Minnesota would strengthen its Constitutional protection of gun owners, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/volokh-conspiracy\/wp\/2014\/11\/05\/alabama-constitutional-right-to-bear-arms-strengthened-by-72-28-vote\/\">as other states have<\/a>. I\u2019ve pointed out for years that the level of scrutiny is the key to winning court cases.<\/p>\n<p>As was noted in the comments, adding &#8220;and we really mean it&#8221; to the Constitution does nothing when the judges are routinely ignoring the law, and the legislature won&#8217;t pull their funding to bring them into line. That&#8217;s what we need in this state and this nation: a good old-fashioned constitutional crisis. The Congress and the Minnesota legislature need to shut things down. Stop funding the court and the Executive Branch until they come into line with the powers enumerated in the state and federal Constitutions. Yes, we\u2019ll get ripped in the media, but we\u2019re going to get that anyway so we might as well get something for it.<\/p>\n<p>Won\u2019t happen with compromisers like Mitch McConnell in charge, of course; but if we can keep sending Tea Partiers, maybe someday . . . .<\/p>\n<p>Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The hope is what keeps me in the GOP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: It\u2019s be wonderful if Minnesota would strengthen its Constitutional protection of gun owners, as other states have. I\u2019ve pointed out for years that the level of scrutiny is the key to winning court cases. As was noted in the comments, adding &#8220;and we really mean it&#8221; to the Constitution [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","category-minnesota-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49071","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=49071"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49083,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49071\/revisions\/49083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}