{"id":73072,"date":"2020-01-15T06:45:57","date_gmt":"2020-01-15T12:45:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=73072"},"modified":"2020-01-15T06:47:44","modified_gmt":"2020-01-15T12:47:44","slug":"elections-have-consequences-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=73072","title":{"rendered":"Elections Have Consequences"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I say this <a href=\"https:\/\/bearingarms.com\/cam-e\/2020\/01\/13\/va-gun-bills-party-line-vote\/\">apropos what&#8217;s happening in Virginia right now<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>After a chaotic morning at the state capitol in Richmond, and despite huge turnout from thousands of gun owners, Virginia Democrats approved a number of gun control bills in a key committee hearing Monday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Ten years ago, I&#8217;d have said &#8220;this kind of overreach is going to lead them to an electoral reckoning&#8221;.   Power for &#8220;progressives&#8221; is like a Blackjack table for a habitual gambler.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And it could very well still be the case in Virginia, where most of the counties have declared themselves &#8220;sanctuaries&#8221; from Governor McMinstrel&#8217;s depredations.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But I&#8217;m less sanguine about this than I used to be, at least in places like Virginia.  Virginia is so dominated by Blue counties, and Blue America has gotten so very, very tribal, intellectually monolithic,  entitled and, let&#8217;s be honest, stupid &#8211; and that&#8217;s not even bringing the money of Big Left into the picture. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This could very well be Minnesota next year. <\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I say this apropos what&#8217;s happening in Virginia right now. After a chaotic morning at the state capitol in Richmond, and despite huge turnout from thousands of gun owners, Virginia Democrats approved a number of gun control bills in a key committee hearing Monday. Ten years ago, I&#8217;d have said &#8220;this kind of overreach is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[369,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-20","category-victim-disarmament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73072","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=73072"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73086,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73072\/revisions\/73086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}