{"id":52116,"date":"2015-03-19T06:21:43","date_gmt":"2015-03-19T11:21:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=52116"},"modified":"2015-03-19T07:56:26","modified_gmt":"2015-03-19T12:56:26","slug":"its-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=52116","title":{"rendered":"It’s Back"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Stand Your Ground” is back.<\/p>\n

The bill – which would do nothing but remove the “duty to retreat” from self-defense on your property<\/em> and in your car – was slandered as a “Shoot First” bill three years ago when it was passed by a bipartisan majority in both chambers (which, as an aside, is positive proof that the opposition was looking for the stupid vote; does anyone knows what happens to the person who shoots second?). \u00a0Governor Messinger<\/del> Dayton issued a veto that was bought and paid for by big anti-gun interests; the metrocrats that controlled the Legislature at the time didn’t override him.<\/p>\n

This year’s edition<\/a> has a bipartisan slate of authors, a decisive majority of support in the House, and enough support in the Senate to make it interesting…<\/p>\n

…and a governor – Tina Flint Smith – who will veto it forthwith (by pulling wires attached to Mark Dayton’s writing hand).<\/p>\n

Of course, the point with this bill – and Senator Branden Petersen’s “Constitutional Carry” bill – is to do what the Second Amendment movement did over the previous two DFL-controlled sessions; rack up anti-gun votes by DFLers in greater Minnesota. \u00a0The DFL got trounced outstate in the 2014 elections in large part on the strength of gun votes; it can happen in the Senate in 2016.<\/p>\n

Which is exactly how we got “Shall Issue” carry permits 12 years ago.<\/p>\n

I worry at times that the lessons from the Carry Permit battle have been lost to a generation of pro-gun activists. \u00a0Shall Issue took from 1995 to 2003 (and again in 2005) to pass. \u00a0Eight years (with another year of maneuvering around a pet DFL judge). \u00a0It involved playing political chess, not checkers.<\/p>\n

So suit up, people. \u00a0Winning your freedom isn’t for the faint of heart.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Stand Your Ground” is back. The bill – which would do nothing but remove the “duty to retreat” from self-defense on your property and in your car – was slandered as a “Shoot First” bill three years ago when it was passed by a bipartisan majority in both chambers (which, as an aside, is positive […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grass-roots"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52116","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=52116"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52123,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52116\/revisions\/52123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}