{"id":63395,"date":"2017-06-07T11:00:33","date_gmt":"2017-06-07T16:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=63395"},"modified":"2017-06-06T15:59:17","modified_gmt":"2017-06-06T20:59:17","slug":"lie-first-lie-always-what-doesnt-happen-at-dreamsicle-day-stays-at-dreamsicle-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=63395","title":{"rendered":"Lie First, Lie Always: What Doesn’t Happen At Dreamsicle Day, Stays At Dreamsicle Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

The other, I noted the hilarious-yet-grim irony of Betsy Hodges, mayor (for now) of Minneapolis, whiich is by far the most violent city in Minnesota, lecturing the state on “gun safety” and “violence”.<\/p>\n

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Betsy Hodges, at Dreamsicle Day last weekend.<\/p><\/div>\n

In recent years, as crime in the state at large has plummetted (and the number of law-abiding citizens with carry permits has skyrocketed), crime in Minneapolis is getting worse.<\/p>\n

Nonetheless, the gun control movement (once thier serial lies are revealed) carries on trying to convince the undecided that<\/p>\n

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  1. there’s a yuge problem with violence\u00a0outside\u00a0<\/em>the urban core, and<\/li>\n
  2. there’s a groundswell of popular support for addressing it by stripping the constitutional rights of law-abiding citizens.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    We address the former quite frequently on this blog. \u00a0The latter point takes a little more patience, but it’s out there.<\/p>\n

    Last year, I pointed out the laughably sparse turnout at “Protect” MN and Moms Want Action events in Eagan and on the mean streets by the Stone Arch Bridge by the Guthrie<\/a>.<\/p>\n

    And this year?<\/p>\n

    Look at the photo of Mayor Hodges, above, standing in front of the banner wearing a dress made from a tablecloth salvaged from an old “Chi-Chis” restaurant. \u00a0Interesting angle, no?<\/p>\n

    Here’s the view from behind Her Honor, toward the, ahem, crowd.<\/p>\n

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    25 people, not counting the cop. \u00a0And four of\u00a0them<\/em> are affiliated with “Protect” MN and Moms Want Action. \u00a0And the “rally” is in North Minneapolis, sort of – but the crowd, almost to a person, has that “south Minneapolis” look about them; the ELCA hair,<\/p>\n

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    The other, I noted the hilarious-yet-grim irony of Betsy Hodges, mayor (for now) of Minneapolis, whiich is by far the most violent city in Minnesota, lecturing the state on “gun safety” and “violence”. In recent years, as crime in the state at large has plummetted (and the number of law-abiding citizens with carry permits has […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[340,130,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lie-first","category-tc-media-bias","category-victim-disarmament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63395","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=63395"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63396,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63395\/revisions\/63396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}