{"id":73707,"date":"2020-04-03T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-03T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=73707"},"modified":"2020-03-29T08:28:44","modified_gmt":"2020-03-29T13:28:44","slug":"closed-to-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=73707","title":{"rendered":"Closed To Business"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Does this infringe on Second Amendment rights?&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"491\" height=\"694\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/OGC.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-73713\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/OGC.png 491w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/OGC-212x300.png 212w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 491px) 100vw, 491px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Churches are closed &#8211; did that infringe on First Amendment rights?<\/p><p>Do we believe the Founders intended God-given, inalienable rights to be subject to the whims of the Chief Executive declaring an &#8220;emergency?&#8221;<\/p><p>Joe Doakes<br><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>I can&#8217;t speak for the collective &#8220;we&#8221;, but this blog does not.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ll point out that the statement (from Oakdale Gun Club) has at least a whiff of private property owner&#8217;s discretion &#8211; which this blog supports.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That being said, think about this for a moment:  until 2015, it would have been perfectly legal for a Governor to order the confiscation of firearms in a state of emergency; see New Orleans after Katrina.  Minnesota&#8217;s gun rights groups fought and won that battle in the 2015 legislature.   If you think things couldn&#8217;t be worse than they are now, you&#8217;ve not been paying attention. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you&#8217;re a gun owner, and not involved in your area&#8217;s 2nd Amendment group (like <a href=\"http:\/\/gunowners.mn\">this group in Minnesota<\/a>), you need to be.  Now. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Does this infringe on Second Amendment rights?&nbsp; Churches are closed &#8211; did that infringe on First Amendment rights? Do we believe the Founders intended God-given, inalienable rights to be subject to the whims of the Chief Executive declaring an &#8220;emergency?&#8221; Joe Doakes I can&#8217;t speak for the collective &#8220;we&#8221;, but this blog does not. I&#8217;ll [&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":[],"class_list":["post-73707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73707","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=73707"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73715,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73707\/revisions\/73715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}