{"id":73291,"date":"2020-02-14T05:48:11","date_gmt":"2020-02-14T11:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=73291"},"modified":"2020-02-14T05:48:11","modified_gmt":"2020-02-14T11:48:11","slug":"lie-first-lie-always-weve-been-through-this-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=73291","title":{"rendered":"Lie First, Lie Always:  We&#8217;ve Been Through This, Right?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=73288\">we noted<\/a> earlier this week, Roseau County became Minnesota&#8217;s first Second  Amendment Sanctuary county.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And you just knew the &#8220;Reverend&#8221; Nancy Nord Bence wouldn&#8217;t take long for an&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;er&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;er, &#8220;interesting&#8221; take on the situation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But she pretty much outdid herself on Twitter:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Local anti-gun group Protect Minnesota claims that the Rouseau County Commissioners were &#8220;bullied by the gun lobby&#8221; into establishing &#8220;basically organized lawlessness&#8221; when they voted to become Minnesota&#8217;s first Second Amendment Sanctuary County earlier this week.<br><br>The reality? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Ao1U56OpA2\">pic.twitter.com\/Ao1U56OpA2<\/a><\/p>\u2014 MN Gun Owners Caucus (@mnguncaucus) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mnguncaucus\/status\/1228012695955365888?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 13, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<p>The county commission was &#8220;bullied&#8221;?   Huh.  Sounds serious.  Was there anything to &#8220;Protect&#8221; MN&#8217;s claim?  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sheesh.  It&#8217;s the &#8220;Reverend&#8221; Nancy Nord Bence.  We&#8217;ve been through this before, right? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A Roseau County Commissioner left a comment on &#8220;Protect&#8221; MN&#8217;s Facebook page:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Roseau County Commissioner John Horner replies in a comment to Protect Minnesota about their completely made-up, misinformed post that the &#8220;gun lobby&#8221; somehow &#8220;bullied&#8221; the Roseau County Commissioners into passing a Second Amendment &#8220;Sanctuary&#8221; declaration. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/cj2vp9Qcc5\">pic.twitter.com\/cj2vp9Qcc5<\/a><\/p>\u2014 MN Gun Owners Caucus (@mnguncaucus) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mnguncaucus\/status\/1228080858902519809?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 13, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Completely made-up&#8221;.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What concerns me here is this:  leftists pretty much up and down the food chain, from Nancy Pelosi down to &#8220;Reverend&#8221; Nord Bence, have learned that their constituency just doesn&#8217;t <em>do <\/em>critical thinking.  If they say something, they know there&#8217;s not going to be anyone catching them after the rally trying to check them on any of it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BIg Left is building a legion of the invincibly ignorant.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And while it&#8217;s not working in Roseau County, the post about Roseau County wasn&#8217;t aimed at rural Minnesota.  It&#8217;s aimed at trying to keep the hordes of people in the third ring suburbs who voted DFL terrified. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Will it work? <\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we noted earlier this week, Roseau County became Minnesota&#8217;s first Second Amendment Sanctuary county. And you just knew the &#8220;Reverend&#8221; Nancy Nord Bence wouldn&#8217;t take long for an&#8230; &#8230;er&#8230; &#8230;er, &#8220;interesting&#8221; take on the situation. But she pretty much outdid herself on Twitter: Local anti-gun group Protect Minnesota claims that the Rouseau County Commissioners [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[340,22],"tags":[359],"class_list":["post-73291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lie-first","category-victim-disarmament","tag-rev-nancy-nord-bence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73291","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=73291"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73294,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73291\/revisions\/73294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}