{"id":70112,"date":"2019-02-25T07:00:45","date_gmt":"2019-02-25T13:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=70112"},"modified":"2020-09-20T21:37:04","modified_gmt":"2020-09-21T02:37:04","slug":"how-i-spent-my-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=70112","title":{"rendered":"How I Spent My Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>About 1,000 of my closest friends turned out for the Minnesota Gun Owners Caucus&#8217; &#8220;2019 Rally To Protect The 2nd Amendment&#8221; on Saturday. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/2019-MNGOC-Rally.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/2019-MNGOC-Rally-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Photo by Sarah Cade, Cade Imaging\" class=\"wp-image-70113\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/2019-MNGOC-Rally-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/2019-MNGOC-Rally-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/2019-MNGOC-Rally-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/2019-MNGOC-Rally-400x300.jpg 400w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/2019-MNGOC-Rally.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Photo by Sarah Cade, Cade Imaging<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Bear in mind &#8211; the weather on Saturday was inclement at best.  I think the good guys expected half this number for turnout.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Compare this to &#8220;Protect&#8221; Minnesota&#8217;s turnout on a beautiful day a few weeks back:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"760\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Screen-Shot-2019-02-24-at-3.01.40-AM-1024x760.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-70114\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Screen-Shot-2019-02-24-at-3.01.40-AM-1024x760.png 1024w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Screen-Shot-2019-02-24-at-3.01.40-AM-300x223.png 300w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Screen-Shot-2019-02-24-at-3.01.40-AM-768x570.png 768w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Screen-Shot-2019-02-24-at-3.01.40-AM-404x300.png 404w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Screen-Shot-2019-02-24-at-3.01.40-AM.png 1132w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Photo &#8211; Rob Doar<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The comparison is inescapable &#8211; Second Amendment Civil Rights activists are real people, motivated by their real passion for securing civil liberty for all Americans; gun control activists are uninformed dupes of plutocrats who seek to enslave Real Americans.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Go ahead, Ryan Winkler.  Bring those bills to the floor.  I dare you. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About 1,000 of my closest friends turned out for the Minnesota Gun Owners Caucus&#8217; &#8220;2019 Rally To Protect The 2nd Amendment&#8221; on Saturday. Bear in mind &#8211; the weather on Saturday was inclement at best. I think the good guys expected half this number for turnout. Compare this to &#8220;Protect&#8221; Minnesota&#8217;s turnout on a beautiful [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[213],"class_list":["post-70112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-winkler"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70112","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=70112"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70115,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70112\/revisions\/70115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}