{"id":58067,"date":"2016-03-21T11:30:28","date_gmt":"2016-03-21T16:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=58067"},"modified":"2020-07-28T17:59:53","modified_gmt":"2020-07-28T22:59:53","slug":"lie-first-lie-always-media-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=58067","title":{"rendered":"Lie First, Lie Always: The Strib Marinades In The Bloomberg Kool-Aid"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Star\/Tribune’s editorial board is a group of people, apparently in their sixties and seventies, who seem to spend their days pining away for a time when the media could say anything they want without fear of being caught out in public by people who know better.<\/p>\n

\"DFLMinistryofTruthLARGE\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Those days are long gone. \u00a0Only the editorial board doesn’t seem to know it, or recognize it, as shown in last week’s editorial calling for, at the least, hearings on a “universal background check” bill<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And like everyone on the institutional left, they participate – with all the grace of a German jazz band – in the left’s only real tactic on the issue of gun control; Lie First, Lie Always.<\/p>\n

Why, it’s almost as if Heather Martens, in addition to being a State Representative, is a Strib editor…<\/p>\n

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Lie #1 and #2: \u00a0 Rewriting The Constitution AND History<\/strong>. \u00a0The editorial starts with a little diseducation about the Constitution:<\/p>\n

State Rep. Tony Cornish is a well-known and zealous advocate for gun rights…[when]when Cornish uses the power of his chairmanship to block even a hearing on proposed legislation that would require background checks for firearms sold at gun shows and online in Minnesota, he goes too far.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well, no. \u00a0He exercises his power as a committee chairman. \u00a0Don’t like it? \u00a0Elect a DFLR majority in the House. \u00a0 The GOP won the 2014 elections, and so we’ve Cornish. \u00a0He goes exactly as far as he’s supposed to.<\/p>\n

And the other lie? \u00a0Do you want me to go back to 1998 and 1999, when DFL committee chairs kept “Shall Issue” (“concealed carry”) legislation from the floor using\u00a0exactly the same tactic<\/em>? \u00a0 Care to guess what the Strib editorial board said then?<\/p>\n

Lie #3: \u00a0Settled Science<\/strong>: \u00a0If you’re new to the Second Amendment Human Rights debate, this may be new to you – but it’s actually an old warhorse (emphasis added):<\/p>\n

The bill proposed by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Ron Latz, DFL-St. Louis Park, and Rep. Dan Schoen, DFL-Cottage Grove, who is a police officer, is yet another attempt at common-sense changes that are broadly supported<\/strong> by Minnesotans and that have proved effective<\/strong> in other states.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

We’ll touch on the “broad support” bit\u00a0below.<\/p>\n

“Universal background checks” have proved\u00a0<\/a>utterly ineffective<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>in other states.<\/p>\n

Lie #4: \u00a0Misrepresentation!: \u00a0<\/strong>And who supports these bills?<\/p>\n

They are backed by Everytown for Gun Safety and Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, national groups that emerged in response to the 2012 mass shooting at a Newton, Conn., school that left 20 children and six adults dead.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well, no. \u00a0Both groups were formed by liberals with deep pockets who’ve been wanting to kill off the Second Amendment for decades. \u00a0There were formed “as a response” to Newtown in exactly the same way Gallagher’s act\u00a0was created\u00a0“in response” to watermelons; \u00a0to Everytown and Moms Want Action, the dead children were nothing but convenient props\u00a01<\/sup>.<\/p>\n

Lie #5: \u00a0Show Me<\/strong>: \u00a0Oh, please:<\/p>\n

A quick check of armslist.com for Minnesota shows 198 pages of listings for arms and related accessories. Want a brand-new, double-action Glock for $400? Shipped directly to your home and no questions asked.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Show us the link and the ad. \u00a0Now.<\/p>\n

I call BS.<\/p>\n

Lie #6: \u00a0Settled Science<\/strong>: \u00a0Next, the Strib presents out-of-context numbers – paging Kim Norton<\/a> – or, to put it another way, lies about numbers:<\/p>\n

A Star Tribune Minnesota Poll in January showed an overwhelming 82 percent of Minnesotans support universal background checks. That included 74 percent of gun owners and 71 percent of Republicans polled.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Let me propose a wager to the Strib Editorial Board. \u00a0We’ll find some of those 82, 74 and 71 percent – the vast majority of whom were asked “would you supposed universal background checks to lower gun crime” with no further details, as if that was all there was to it. \u00a0Then we’ll explain to them that:<\/p>\n