{"id":71974,"date":"2019-08-19T06:00:19","date_gmt":"2019-08-19T11:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=71974"},"modified":"2019-08-18T23:01:06","modified_gmt":"2019-08-19T04:01:06","slug":"and-when-i-say-the-reverend-nancy-nord-bence-has-never-said-anything-about-the-gun-issue-that-is-simultaneously-original-substantial-and-true","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=71974","title":{"rendered":"And When I Say &#8220;The Reverend Nancy Nord Bence Has Never Said Anything About The Gun Issue That Is Simultaneously Original, Substantial And True&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8230;that statement would seem to have spread to statements about her own &#8220;group&#8221;. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bear with me.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Protect&#8221; Minnesota was at Game Fair over the last two weekends.  Game Fair is pretty much the biggest outdoor sports fair in the state; hunting, fishing, dogs, the whole nine yards.  It takes place in deep-red Ramsay.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And &#8220;Protect&#8221; MN, for some reason, had a booth there. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Or so the Reverend Nord Bence reminds us:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/NancyIsALyingLoser-473x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-71975\" width=\"355\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/NancyIsALyingLoser-473x1024.png 473w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/NancyIsALyingLoser-139x300.png 139w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/NancyIsALyingLoser-768x1662.png 768w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/NancyIsALyingLoser.png 1242w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 355px) 100vw, 355px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>So let&#8217;s get this straight &#8211; you gave away free stuff (of some marginal utility &#8211; cheap trigger locks), and people took them?  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And 130 people out of tens of thousands of attendees, many of whom don&#8217;t understand what gun control will mean to them in the long term, lined up and talked and signed your meaningless petition?  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Shazam. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So you know what would really convince me?  If thousands of these rando hunters grabbed &#8220;Protect&#8221; Minnesota t-shirts, and wore them proudly around and about the game fair, showing the world that the tide was turning!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And did that happen?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Take a gander for yourself:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/PMStenchOfFailure.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-71976\" width=\"350\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/PMStenchOfFailure.jpg 466w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/PMStenchOfFailure-146x300.jpg 146w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This is one of two loads being packed out to their Prius (OK, I made the car up) at the end of <em>six days of exhibitin<\/em>g.   The other load was equally as full.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If they gave away a dozen t-shirts, I&#8217;d be amazed &#8211; and I&#8217;ll bet dimes to dollars all are being used as bore patches today.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Reverend Nord Bence:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"350\" height=\"453\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/BenceBusted.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-61747\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/BenceBusted.png 350w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/BenceBusted-232x300.png 232w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>If her lips are moving, don&#8217;t believe her. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;that statement would seem to have spread to statements about her own &#8220;group&#8221;. Bear with me. &#8220;Protect&#8221; Minnesota was at Game Fair over the last two weekends. Game Fair is pretty much the biggest outdoor sports fair in the state; hunting, fishing, dogs, the whole nine yards. It takes place in deep-red Ramsay. And &#8220;Protect&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[359],"class_list":["post-71974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-victim-disarmament","tag-rev-nancy-nord-bence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71974","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=71974"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71978,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71974\/revisions\/71978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}