{"id":60459,"date":"2016-09-30T06:00:39","date_gmt":"2016-09-30T11:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=60459"},"modified":"2016-09-29T06:34:16","modified_gmt":"2016-09-29T11:34:16","slug":"when-did-you-stop-beating-your-wife-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=60459","title":{"rendered":"When Did You Stop Beating Your Wife"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the past, we&#8217;ve spent some time beating up the group &#8220;Minnesota Gun Rights&#8221; &#8211; a group based in Iowa, affiliated with the National Association of Gun Rights. \u00a0NAGR&#8217;s affiliates nationwide have a fairly cohesive strategy:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Lead with a lot of no-compromise rhetoric &#8211; often on non-issues &#8211; on cheap social media.<\/li>\n<li>Use that rhetoric to raise a lot of money.<\/li>\n<li>Claim credit for other groups&#8217; work to raise more money.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>We see this yet again this cycle.<\/p>\n<p>MGR is flogging this ad on social media:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Screen-Shot-2016-09-29-at-7.06.08-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-60460 \" src=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Screen-Shot-2016-09-29-at-7.06.08-AM.png\" alt=\"screen-shot-2016-09-29-at-7-06-08-am\" width=\"415\" height=\"419\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Screen-Shot-2016-09-29-at-7.06.08-AM.png 475w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Screen-Shot-2016-09-29-at-7.06.08-AM-150x150.png 150w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Screen-Shot-2016-09-29-at-7.06.08-AM-297x300.png 297w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 415px) 100vw, 415px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>With this caption:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Senator Rod Skoe voted <span class=\"_47e3\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"img\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/images\/emoji.php\/v5\/ubd\/1\/16\/26d4.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" \/><span class=\"_7oe\">\u26d4<\/span><\/span>AGAINST<span class=\"_47e3\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"img\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/images\/emoji.php\/v5\/ubd\/1\/16\/26d4.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" \/><span class=\"_7oe\">\u26d4<\/span><\/span> pro-gun Constitutional Carry legislation! Add your name to those demanding he apologize for betraying gun owners!<\/p>\n<p>APOLOGIZE, Sen. Skoe!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Now, Rod Skoe is a DFLer &#8211; but he&#8217;s about as outstate a DFLer as you can get. \u00a0He&#8217;s been solidly pro-2nd-Amendment. \u00a0He&#8217;s one of the linchpins of the gun movement&#8217;s bipartisanship (outside the 494-694 ring) in this state. \u00a0<em>He&#8217;s one of the good guys, and always has been.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Oh, yeah &#8211; and there never has been a vote on &#8220;Constitutional Carry&#8221; (which would make the 2nd Amendment your carry permit) on the floor of the Minnesota Senate. \u00a0 Or, to the best of my recollection, the House. \u00a0A quixotic Constitutional Carry bill from Brandon Peterson died in committee, I think, last session &#8211; but that was it.<\/p>\n<p>If Minnesota Gun Rights says it, its probably false.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the past, we&#8217;ve spent some time beating up the group &#8220;Minnesota Gun Rights&#8221; &#8211; a group based in Iowa, affiliated with the National Association of Gun Rights. \u00a0NAGR&#8217;s affiliates nationwide have a fairly cohesive strategy: Lead with a lot of no-compromise rhetoric &#8211; often on non-issues &#8211; on cheap social media. Use that rhetoric [&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-60459","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\/60459","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=60459"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60461,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60459\/revisions\/60461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}