{"id":51951,"date":"2015-03-12T07:00:52","date_gmt":"2015-03-12T12:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=51951"},"modified":"2015-03-11T21:55:29","modified_gmt":"2015-03-12T02:55:29","slug":"a-miracle-of-physics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=51951","title":{"rendered":"A Miracle Of Physics"},"content":{"rendered":"

This form email has been making the rounds at the capitol in Saint Paul. \u00a0The person who sent it to me is under the impression that it shows the gun-grabbers are running out of good ideas and smart people.<\/p>\n

Au contraire<\/em>, said I. \u00a0This letter is a miracle, bordering on the first radio signal and the first nuclear fissile pile.<\/p>\n

Because so much stupid is jammed into this email, it violates what were once thought to be inviolate laws of physics.<\/p>\n

The woman – she’s a suburban matron from Mound – comes out swinging:<\/p>\n

I oppose legalizing silencers in Minnesota (HF 1434). Silencers are designed to let people commit murder and get away with it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Only in the movies.<\/p>\n

They do the same thing for guns that mufflers do for cars; forestall hearing loss. \u00a0They take 30 decibels off the “bang” of a gun firing. What does this mean?<\/p>\n

This<\/a>: \u00a0“…for most commercially available fire arms and cartridges, this ends up only reducing the noise level to somewhere in the range of 130-150-ish dB for a supersonic cartridge and 117-130-ish dB for a subsonic cartridge. For reference on just how loud that is, an ambulance or police siren is typically between 100-140 dB. So this isn\u2019t exactly the \u201cwhoosh\u201d sound Hollywood depicts.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Someone’s been watching too many movies:<\/p>\n

In addition, silencers would compromise Minneapolis’ crime-fighting “shot-spotter” technology.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

About as much as things like buildings and cars and anything else that gets between a shot and a shot-spotter microphone. \u00a0In other words, not really<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I also oppose HF 305, a bill to let North Dakota legislators decide who can carry guns in Minnesota. Under current law, state law enforcement reviews other states’ laws to determine if the other states’ permits should be recognized in MInnesota. That is as it should be. We should not let North Dakota legislators decide what is best for public safety in Minnesota.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This is mad ignorance.<\/p>\n

The law allows the Commissioner of Public Safety decides whether other states’ carry permitting laws are “subsantially similar” to Minnesota’s. \u00a0North Dakota implemented a two-tier system – one permit for residents, and another for non-residents,\u00a0specifically to cater to that absurd restriction in Minnesota law<\/em>, to help avoid creating a felony trap for law-abiding citizens from both states. \u00a0Knowing, as I do, er, “friends” who have to stop in Moorhead or East Grand Forks when travelling west to move, er, payloads to the trunk, this change is long overdue. \u00a0Not that author of this post knows the difference.<\/p>\n

\nTwo other bills, HF 830 and HF 372, are unnecessary. In particular, weakening our laws around carrying guns at the Capitol is a step in the wrong direction.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But she doesn’t favor us with a reason why.<\/p>\n

That’s simple; she’s parroting something someone else told her. \u00a0There is no downside to the proposal; Capitol Security has real-time access to the database of carry permittees; the current notification statute is a throwback to the days when permits weren’t computerized.<\/p>\n

Please join me in opposing these bills.<\/p>\n

[“Writer’s” name redacted]
\nMound, MN 5536<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

She must be on the “Minnesota Progressive Project” farm club.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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