{"id":64687,"date":"2017-10-04T06:00:10","date_gmt":"2017-10-04T11:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=64687"},"modified":"2017-10-02T21:00:11","modified_gmt":"2017-10-03T02:00:11","slug":"lie-first-lie-always-a-tale-of-two-tims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=64687","title":{"rendered":"Lie First, Lie Always:  A Tale Of Two Tims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When last we spoke about MNCD1 DFL representative Tim Walz, he was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=60851\">cuddling up &#8211; literally &#8211; with &#8220;Protect&#8221; MInnesota&#8217;s ELCA-coiffed Dreamsicles<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/WalzWithGrabbers.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-60852 alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/WalzWithGrabbers.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"464\" height=\"321\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I urged gun owners in CD1 to remember this photo &#8211; the photo of &#8220;gun grabber Tim&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>And this next bit should help?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Walz.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-64688 alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Walz.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"453\" height=\"342\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Every word of it is crap, of course:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What &#8220;we&#8217;re doing&#8221; has lowered violent gun crime and gun murders 50% in the past 20 years.<\/li>\n<li>The &#8220;facts&#8221; do lie, when they are nothing but correlation leading to a false claim of causation; neither mass shootings or cops being shot are in any way effected by background checks of any kind (criminals don&#8217;t take them!), and if he thinks suicide would be prevented by background checks, he&#8217;s clearly figuring cops will become clairvoyant.\u00a0 \u00a0 So facts may not lie &#8211; but Walz is.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>But that&#8217;s the line; he&#8217;s going to &#8220;do everything&#8221; he can to foist a law on the people that\u00a0<em>can not\u00a0<\/em>affect crime, and\u00a0<em>can only\u00a0<\/em>serve to register the gun of the law-abiding citizen.<\/p>\n<p>He is, of course, playing for the Metrocrat vote, trying to get the DFL endorsement to run for governor.\u00a0 He will promptly reverse course if he gets the nod (or runs for Congress again).\u00a0 \u00a0The media will let this fall down the memory hole.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s not let that happen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When last we spoke about MNCD1 DFL representative Tim Walz, he was cuddling up &#8211; literally &#8211; with &#8220;Protect&#8221; MInnesota&#8217;s ELCA-coiffed Dreamsicles. I urged gun owners in CD1 to remember this photo &#8211; the photo of &#8220;gun grabber Tim&#8221;. And this next bit should help? Every word of it is crap, of course: What &#8220;we&#8217;re [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[320,22],"tags":[160],"class_list":["post-64687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mndfl","category-victim-disarmament","tag-mn-cd1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64687","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=64687"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64689,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64687\/revisions\/64689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}