{"id":58761,"date":"2016-05-13T07:00:47","date_gmt":"2016-05-13T12:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=58761"},"modified":"2016-06-02T17:09:25","modified_gmt":"2016-06-02T22:09:25","slug":"open-letter-to-sen-latz-rep-schoen-rep-norton-rev-nord-bence-jane-kaye-heather-martens-and-joan-peterson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=58761","title":{"rendered":"Open Letter To Sen. Latz, Rep. Schoen, Rep. Norton, Rev. Nord Bence, Jane Kaye, Heather Martens, and Joan Peterson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To: \u00a0The Abovementioned<br \/>\nFrom: Mitch Berg, Mere Peasant<br \/>\nRe: \u00a0Your signage where your mouths are<\/p>\n<p>All,<\/p>\n<p>You are the leaders of Minnesota&#8217;s gun-grabber movement. \u00a0You and your wan little pack of Volvo-driving, alpaca-wearing, NPR-listening, St. Olaf-graduating, ELCA-coiffed followers want to take away Minnesotans&#8217; right and means to defend themselves.<\/p>\n<p>Now, crime in Minnesota is very, very low &#8211; and a higher percentage of Minnesotans have carry permits than Texans. \u00a0Crime is lowest of all in places where the number of legally-carried guns is the highest.<\/p>\n<p>And vice versa.<\/p>\n<p>So you all live in your hideaways in Kenwood, Saint Anthony Park, Crocus Hill, Rochester and Saint Louis Park, in part made safer by the deterrent effect of all of us shooters.<\/p>\n<p>So why not make an integrity move, and eschew that deterrence?<\/p>\n<p>Put one of these babies in your yard:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theegglestongroup.com\/writing\/images\/gun_free.gif\" width=\"210\" height=\"210\" \/>Show America&#8217;s gun culture that you \u00a0<em>patently reject\u00a0<\/em>the collateral benefit of their &#8211; our &#8211; prudence!<\/p>\n<p>Tell Minnesota &#8211;\u00a0<em>all\u00a0<\/em>Minnesotans &#8211; that you trust\u00a0<em>all 5.5 million\u00a0<\/em>of your neighbors to stay honest. \u00a0Tell them that you implicitly trust that if something goes hinky, that you\u00a0<em>trust\u00a0<\/em>the police will be there fast enough to make a difference.<\/p>\n<p>You\u00a0<em>do\u00a0<\/em>trust the police to protect you, just as you want us to trust them &#8211; don&#8217;t you?<\/p>\n<p>Please see to this immediately.<\/p>\n<p>What? \u00a0You&#8217;re not\u00a0<em>afraid<\/em>, are you?<\/p>\n<p>Because I&#8217;d hate to think you all were a bunch of hypocrites.<\/p>\n<p>That is all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To: \u00a0The Abovementioned From: Mitch Berg, Mere Peasant Re: \u00a0Your signage where your mouths are All, You are the leaders of Minnesota&#8217;s gun-grabber movement. \u00a0You and your wan little pack of Volvo-driving, alpaca-wearing, NPR-listening, St. Olaf-graduating, ELCA-coiffed followers want to take away Minnesotans&#8217; right and means to defend themselves. Now, crime in Minnesota is very, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,22],"tags":[249,359],"class_list":["post-58761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gun-free-zones","category-victim-disarmament","tag-open-letters","tag-rev-nancy-nord-bence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58761","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=58761"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58764,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58761\/revisions\/58764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}