{"id":63387,"date":"2017-06-06T11:00:35","date_gmt":"2017-06-06T16:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=63387"},"modified":"2017-06-05T14:26:52","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T19:26:52","slug":"protect-minnesota-the-truth-oozes-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=63387","title":{"rendered":"“Protect” Minnesota: The Truth Oozes Out"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the great lessons gun controllers learned in the past decade or so is\u00a0shut up about the real agenda<\/em>. \u00a0 Gull the odd gullible gun owner with soothing-yet-ridiculing platitutdes, like “Nobody’s coming for your guns. \u00a0All we want is \u00a0a conversation<\/em> about “gun safety” and “violence”.<\/p>\n

But \u00a0every once in a while, they screw up and tell the truth. \u00a0As “Protect” Minnesota did on Monday, in response to a workplace shooting in Orlando (by a man who does not qualify for a carry permit in either Florida or Minnesota):<\/p>\n

\"No<\/p>\n

And there you go: \u00a0“Protect” MN favors licensing gun owners and universal registration – neither of which affect, or or could possibly affect, crime, but both of which can (and repeatedly have been) used to abrogate citizens’ right to keep and bear arms. \u00a0“Regulating” weapons that are almost never used in crime, and account for less than 1% of America’s murders, but are deemed politically incorrect.<\/p>\n

That’s it. \u00a0Game over. \u00a0All the soothing platitudes and “don’t worry be happy” rhetoric of the past two decades is here shown to be mere baked wind.<\/p>\n

By the way –\u00a0none\u00a0<\/em>of the measures “P”M lists would have affected today’s shooting. \u00a0None.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of the great lessons gun controllers learned in the past decade or so is\u00a0shut up about the real agenda. \u00a0 Gull the odd gullible gun owner with soothing-yet-ridiculing platitutdes, like “Nobody’s coming for your guns. \u00a0All we want is \u00a0a conversation about “gun safety” and “violence”. But \u00a0every once in a while, they screw […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,22],"tags":[274],"class_list":["post-63387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-and-punishment","category-victim-disarmament","tag-protectmn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63387","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=63387"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63388,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63387\/revisions\/63388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}