{"id":71831,"date":"2019-07-26T10:56:13","date_gmt":"2019-07-26T15:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=71831"},"modified":"2019-07-26T10:57:11","modified_gmt":"2019-07-26T15:57:11","slug":"the-mission-for-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=71831","title":{"rendered":"The Mission For Today"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

As crime plummets in the rest of Minnesota, violence creeps ahead in the Metro – most of it using mundane, stolen conventional handguns. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And suicides claim 80% of the gun deaths in Minnesota – mostly unfashionable older guys with depression and frequently terminal illnesses. And with suicide, magazine size is utterly irrelevant. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But Keith Ellison – former Congressman and current Attorney General with, one suspects, aspirations to the office of Governor of Minnesota, has filed an amicus brief<\/a> in a state case seeking to limit magazine sizes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course. limiting magazine sizes has no effect on violent crime – not even mass shootings. Especially not street crime or suicide. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But that’s how he’s wasting his time and your dollars. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

You need to help fix that. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Go here and email his office<\/a>; there’s an email form (please rewrite the boilerplate message to suit). You can also call – leave a polite but firm message. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We need to blow his inbox and switchboard to shreds with belt-fed reason and indignation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n


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As crime plummets in the rest of Minnesota, violence creeps ahead in the Metro – most of it using mundane, stolen conventional handguns. And suicides claim 80% of the gun deaths in Minnesota – mostly unfashionable older guys with depression and frequently terminal illnesses. And with suicide, magazine size is utterly irrelevant. But Keith Ellison […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,320,22],"tags":[252],"class_list":["post-71831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats","category-mndfl","category-victim-disarmament","tag-ellison"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71831","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=71831"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71832,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71831\/revisions\/71832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}