{"id":61736,"date":"2017-01-16T11:00:46","date_gmt":"2017-01-16T17:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=61736"},"modified":"2017-02-05T11:41:47","modified_gmt":"2017-02-05T17:41:47","slug":"the-gang-that-couldnt-not-shoot-straight-game-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=61736","title":{"rendered":"The Gang That Couldn’t Not Shoot, Straight: Game On!"},"content":{"rendered":"

In 1987, as a bill that would require the state to issue handgun carry permits to citizens who were not explicitly barred from having\u00a0them passed a vote in the Florida state legislature, state senator Ron Silver predicted blood in the streets, and said the state would turn into Dodge City.<\/p>\n

Silver, being a Democrat of some integrity, admitted several years later he was completely wrong, and that the law was an untrammeled success.<\/p>\n

In 2003, \u00a0Senator Wes “Lying Sack of Garbage” Skoglund, during the debate on the Minnesota Personal Protection Act (which also instituted “Shall Issue”), said that the law would “allow gang members to get carry permits”. \u00a0 Which would, I suppose, be true, if you found a gang-banger who was 21 years old and had a clean criminal record, in which case the term you’d be look for is “citizen”. \u00a0Anyway – it hasn’t happened. \u00a0In 14 years, carry permittees have killed perhaps a half dozen\u00a0people; in every case but one, it’s been ruled justifiable (and the one exception was someone who shouldn’t have gotten a permit to begin with).<\/p>\n

In sort, it wouldn’t be a gun control debate without someone claiming the sky would fall if the law-abiding citizen were able to exercise his or her rights – and a slow walk back five years later as the predictions turned out to be universally false. .<\/p>\n

Speaking of universally false, The Reverend Nancy Nord Bence is in the news! \u00a0And it almost reads too pat to be good fiction that she does it with a press release that ends with:<\/p>\n

We cannot allow the gun-rights fringe to divide our communities, put police at risk, and turn our friendly and forward-looking state into…<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Wait for it…<\/p>\n

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One wonders if she even realizes that the “OK Corral” analogy undercuts her point?<\/p><\/div>\n

Wait for it…<\/p>\n

…the OK Corral.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It never, ever fails, does it?<\/p>\n

The Game, It Is On: \u00a0<\/strong>Last week, two bills were introduced\u00a0in the Minnesota state legislature:<\/p>\n