{"id":58453,"date":"2016-04-19T07:00:58","date_gmt":"2016-04-19T12:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=58453"},"modified":"2016-04-18T20:29:54","modified_gmt":"2016-04-19T01:29:54","slug":"the-slow-advance-of-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=58453","title":{"rendered":"The Slow Advance Of Progress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, Mississippi became the ninth &#8220;Constitutional Carry&#8221; state &#8211; allowing any citizen who is legally entitled to carry a gun to carry, without need for a state permit (which was the system in Minnesota until 1974, by the way).<\/p>\n<p>And in the wake of that move, North Dakota legislators sound like they&#8217;re <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sayanythingblog.com\/entry\/north-dakota-likely-debate-constitutional-carry-legislation-2017\/?utm_campaign=coschedule&amp;utm_source=facebook&amp;utm_medium=Rob%20Port&amp;utm_content=North%20Dakota%20Will%20Debate%20%22Constitutional%20Carry%22%20Legislation%20In%202017\">maneuvering to make the state the tenth state <\/a>to not require law-abiding citizens to jump through hoops to exercise their Constitutional rights.<\/p>\n<p>Rob Port:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I spoke with Becker about the legislation last night, and he said it\u2019s an important issue for our state.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA Constitutional Carry law removes the restrictions that are an impediment to \u2018the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed\u2019 clearly stated in the Second Amendment,\u201d he told me.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If Constitutional Carry passes, and when &#8211; not if &#8211; it is a complete success, it will be much harder for Minnesota&#8217;s pro-dictatorship groups (ProtectMN, Moms Want Action, Everytown For Big Brother) to yap about it.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, Mississippi became the ninth &#8220;Constitutional Carry&#8221; state &#8211; allowing any citizen who is legally entitled to carry a gun to carry, without need for a state permit (which was the system in Minnesota until 1974, by the way). And in the wake of that move, North Dakota legislators sound like they&#8217;re maneuvering to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[269,21,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grass-roots","category-midwest","category-victim-disarmament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58453","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=58453"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58454,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58453\/revisions\/58454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}