Gun owners.<\/p>\n
When we’re on the defensive – as we were 3-4 years ago, here in Minnesota – we are the most motivated people in politics. \u00a0We make people sit up and listen – or we throw them out of office<\/a>.<\/p>\n But when times are less perilous? \u00a0 It’s another story. \u00a0And it’s understandable; unlike the anti-gun \/ criminal safety movement, we have jobs, families and real lives. \u00a0We can’t just drop everything and run down to spend a day at the Capitol for anything but a serious emergency.<\/p>\n And let’s be honest – compared to 15 years ago, never mind 30 years ago, we Real Americans of the 2nd Amendment movement are doing pretty well. \u00a0The 2nd Amendment may be the only liberty where the needle has been pushed the right way – but we have pushed it.<\/p>\n But complacency is what got us the 1970s. \u00a0And it could happen again.<\/p>\n This year, there are two important 2nd Amendment-related civil rights bills on the agenda:<\/p>\n Now, it’s was a fair bet Governor Dayton would have vetoed either or both bills.<\/p>\n And then again, maybe not; antagonizing shooters helped the DFL lose pretty much all of rural Minnesota; Dayton could easily have doomed a few more of the remaining outstate Democrats by vetoing these bills – and caused any number of other headaches by vetoing the omnibus bills they were going to be parts of.<\/p>\n But the GOP caucuses haven’t put the bills into the omnibuses yet. \u00a0<\/em><\/strong>Word has it that Senate leadership is “playing defense”, trying not to lose seats (notwithstanding their next election isn’t until 2020). \u00a0And if the Senate isn’t going to push the bills, there’s no point in the GOP pushing them. \u00a0Right?<\/p>\n Wrong.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n And there’s a report that at least one GOP legislator from a safer-than-safe district is\u00a0afraid of the Dreamsicles<\/em>.<\/p>\n It’s time for the GOP to pay back some of the political capital that the 2nd Amendment movement has invested in it. \u00a0<\/em>And \u00a0if safe Republicans are going to profess political “fear” a couple dozen\u00a0\u00a0ELCA-haired, deluded bobbleheads in orange? \u00a0 It might be time for them to re-learn what political “fear” really is.<\/p>\n And that means you and I need to step up.<\/p>\n It’s Go Time<\/strong>. \u00a0It’s time for all law-abiding 2nd Amendment human rights supporters to get on the line and burn up the phones,\u00a0today<\/em>.<\/p>\n Call your representative<\/a> and your Senator<\/a>.<\/p>\n And call:<\/p>\n House Speaker Rep. Kurt Daudt<\/strong> Majority Leader Rep. Joyce Peppin<\/strong> Public Safety Committee Chairman Tony Cornish<\/strong> Politely tell them that they need to deliver. \u00a0 We’re not complacent, and our support is not\u00a0<\/em>to be taken for granted.<\/p>\n This needs to be a political flood of biblical proportions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Gun owners. When we’re on the defensive – as we were 3-4 years ago, here in Minnesota – we are the most motivated people in politics. \u00a0We make people sit up and listen – or we throw them out of office. But when times are less perilous? \u00a0 It’s another story. \u00a0And it’s understandable; unlike […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[269,2,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grass-roots","category-minnesota-politics","category-victim-disarmament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62495","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=62495"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62496,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62495\/revisions\/62496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
\nOffice: 651-296-5364
\nE-Mail: rep.kurt.daudt@house.mn<\/p>\n
\nOffice: 651-296-7806
\nE-Mail: rep.joyce.peppin@house.mn<\/p>\n
\nOffice: 651-296-4240
\nE-Mail: rep.tony.cornish@house.mn<\/p>\n