{"id":57256,"date":"2016-01-26T07:00:58","date_gmt":"2016-01-26T13:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=57256"},"modified":"2016-01-25T16:38:33","modified_gmt":"2016-01-25T22:38:33","slug":"them-rootin-tootin-shootin-minnesotans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=57256","title":{"rendered":"Them Rootin&#8217;,  Tootin&#8217;,  Shootin&#8217; Minnesotans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s one of Minnesota liberals&#8217; standard conceits; that Minnesota is just plain more\u00a0<em>civilized\u00a0<\/em>than rough &#8216;n tumble southern zip codes like Texas.<\/p>\n<p>But if you look at the numbers, Andrew Rothman at GOCRA reminds us, you can find some interesting surprises.<\/p>\n<p>For example: \u00a0If you divide Minnesota&#8217;s population of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/quickfacts.census.gov\/qfd\/states\/27000.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow nofollow\">5,457,173<\/a>\u00a0by its\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.madfi.org\/permitcount.asp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow nofollow\">total number of carry permits &#8211; 210.647<\/a>, you get a figure of 3.86%.<\/p>\n<p>If you do\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/01\/01\/us\/-2016-01-01-texas-open-carry-gun-law.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow nofollow\">the same thing with Texas&#8217; population and carry permits<\/a>, you get 3.38%.<\/p>\n<p>How about in convenient graphic form?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/12552772_10154475874172542_3192169079444791877_n.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-57257\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-57257 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/12552772_10154475874172542_3192169079444791877_n.png\" alt=\"12552772_10154475874172542_3192169079444791877_n\" width=\"533\" height=\"325\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/12552772_10154475874172542_3192169079444791877_n.png 533w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/12552772_10154475874172542_3192169079444791877_n-300x183.png 300w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/12552772_10154475874172542_3192169079444791877_n-492x300.png 492w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 533px) 100vw, 533px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In other words, while liberals want to have you believe the sky will fall if Minnesota becomes as &#8220;gun crazy&#8221; as Minnesota liberals&#8217; stereotype of Texas, we are already carrying more than Texans are.<\/p>\n<p>By the way &#8211; that 3.86 becomes closer to 5% if you count only adults.<\/p>\n<p>And yet we have one of the lowest murder rates in the country, down around western European levels.<\/p>\n<p>Surely there must be some mistake.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s one of Minnesota liberals&#8217; standard conceits; that Minnesota is just plain more\u00a0civilized\u00a0than rough &#8216;n tumble southern zip codes like Texas. But if you look at the numbers, Andrew Rothman at GOCRA reminds us, you can find some interesting surprises. For example: \u00a0If you divide Minnesota&#8217;s population of\u00a05,457,173\u00a0by its\u00a0total number of carry permits &#8211; 210.647, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-victim-disarmament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57256","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=57256"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57258,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57256\/revisions\/57258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}