{"id":64920,"date":"2017-10-30T11:00:59","date_gmt":"2017-10-30T16:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=64920"},"modified":"2017-10-28T11:55:43","modified_gmt":"2017-10-28T16:55:43","slug":"open-letter-to-melvin-carter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=64920","title":{"rendered":"Open Letter To Melvin Carter"},"content":{"rendered":"

To:\u00a0 Melvin Carter, DFL Candidate for Mayor of Saint Paul
\nFrom:\u00a0 Mitch Berg, irascible peasant
\nRe:\u00a0 Gandered<\/p>\n

Councilman Carter<\/p>\n

I’m Mitch Berg.\u00a0 I’m one of Saint Paul’s tiny film of conservatives, so you’ve never had the faintest hint of a reason to pay attention to me, and you likely never will.\u00a0 And it – like everything about Saint Paul’s governance – shows.<\/p>\n

But I come today not to bury you, but to show you some common ground.<\/p>\n

Councilman Carter, you may be a politician, but otherwise you are by all accounts a law-abiding citizen. \u00a0\u00a0 There\u2019s no indication you don’t follow the rules [1].<\/p>\n

And yet here you are, getting smeared by the police union (an integral part of the Metro DFL establishment) that you are also a loyal, elected part of) for things that are not you fault, that you’re not responsible for, and that you have nothing to do with [2], *even as* the person who allegedly burgled your house – the bad guy, here – slides anonymously and without ceremony toward his eventual, inevitable catch-and-release date.<\/p>\n

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In other words, Melvin Carter, yoiu on the business end of the same collective smear Big Left dishes out to *all* law-abiding gun owners; blaming the law-abiding for the actions of the criminal; \u00a0burdening the law-abiding but ignoring the criminal.<\/p>\n

(\u201cBut wait! \u00a0It\u2019s not bigotry against gun owners! \u00a0It\u2019s racism!\u201d, someone will say. \u00a0Why choose? It\u2019s both; the roots of gun control are intensely racist).<\/p>\n

Welcome to the party, Councilman Carter. \u00a0Perhaps you might want to rethink your party\u2019s assumptions about the rest of us? \u00a0[3]<\/p>\n

Mitch Berg
\nThe Midway<\/p>\n

[1] Including the laws and rules about securing the guns; \u00a0\u00a0the law is about safeguarding kids, not burglarproofing your collection; a trigger lock or locked gun box is ample to meet the law\u2019s requirements. \u00a0If the law required us to make every potential danger in our houses theft-proof, we\u2019d all live in fortresses, and we\u2019d all *still* be criminals one way or another.<\/p>\n

[2] Other than, of course, the culplability he shares with this city\u2019s current government, ruling party and political class of which he\u2019s a part, of course.<\/p>\n

[3] Speaking conceptually, here. \u00a0I don\u2019t own guns. \u00a0They terrify me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

To:\u00a0 Melvin Carter, DFL Candidate for Mayor of Saint Paul From:\u00a0 Mitch Berg, irascible peasant Re:\u00a0 Gandered Councilman Carter I’m Mitch Berg.\u00a0 I’m one of Saint Paul’s tiny film of conservatives, so you’ve never had the faintest hint of a reason to pay attention to me, and you likely never will.\u00a0 And it – like […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,22],"tags":[249],"class_list":["post-64920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-st-paul","category-victim-disarmament","tag-open-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64920","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=64920"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64935,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64920\/revisions\/64935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}