{"id":58681,"date":"2016-05-05T11:30:02","date_gmt":"2016-05-05T16:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=58681"},"modified":"2016-05-05T13:02:08","modified_gmt":"2016-05-05T18:02:08","slug":"lie-first-lie-always-ron-latzs-made-up-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=58681","title":{"rendered":"Lie First, Lie Always:  Ron Latz&#8217;s Made-Up &#8220;Crisis&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday, while participating in a dog and pony show for a Gabby Giffords visit to support gun grab legislation that was dead weeks ago in the legislature, Ron &#8220;I Went To Harvard. \u00a0You <em>Do\u00a0<\/em>What Harvard Is&#8221;&#8221; Latz introduced things with eleven seconds of distilled fabulism.<\/p>\n<p>Courtesy of MNGOC, here it is:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8YbQujM_5rY\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>As befits a DFL \/ Minnesota Left statement about guns, the Second Amendment, gun control and gun owners, it&#8217;s a lie.<\/p>\n<p>Because remember: \u00a0their motto is &#8220;Lie First, Lie Always&#8221;\u00a0<sup>1.\u00a0<\/sup><\/p>\n<p>Minnesota is in such a &#8220;gun crime crisis&#8221; that the gun murder rate has dropped to its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=56598\">lowest level in decades<\/a>. \u00a0In fact, if you leave out DFL-strangled North Minneapolis, with its Baltimore-like murder rate, from the state figures (a third of the state&#8217;s murders happen in Near North), Minnesota has a murder rate\u00a0<em>half that of Norway<\/em>. \u00a0Competitive with the rural west.<\/p>\n<p>Low.<\/p>\n<p>I could write &#8220;It&#8217;s low and dropping&#8221; 250 more times &#8211; or capture the whole thing in a 1000-word picture:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_58691\" style=\"width: 470px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/13122873_569624659873696_6992375359314521378_o.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-58691\" class=\"wp-image-58691\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/13122873_569624659873696_6992375359314521378_o.png\" alt=\"13122873_569624659873696_6992375359314521378_o\" width=\"460\" height=\"274\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-58691\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Courtesy MN Gun Owners Caucus<\/p><\/div>\n<p>And except for the DFL-addled inner cities, it&#8217;s continuing its drop, as the number of carry permittees in Minnesota rockets toward and past a quarter million.<\/p>\n<p>More such crises, please.<\/p>\n<p>And stop lying, Senator Latz.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><sup>1 <\/sup>Well, no &#8211; it&#8217;s not\u00a0literally\u00a0their motto; they didn&#8217;t pick it. \u00a0I wrote it for them. \u00a0But they observe it in every particular. \u00a0Every time. \u00a0And it&#8217;s been keeping this blog in material for years<sup>. \u00a0<\/sup><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday, while participating in a dog and pony show for a Gabby Giffords visit to support gun grab legislation that was dead weeks ago in the legislature, Ron &#8220;I Went To Harvard. \u00a0You Do\u00a0What Harvard Is&#8221;&#8221; Latz introduced things with eleven seconds of distilled fabulism. Courtesy of MNGOC, here it is: As befits a DFL [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[340,51,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lie-first","category-liberal-tyranny","category-victim-disarmament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58681","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=58681"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58692,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58681\/revisions\/58692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}