{"id":81187,"date":"2022-03-18T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-18T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=81187"},"modified":"2022-03-18T08:38:41","modified_gmt":"2022-03-18T13:38:41","slug":"a-picture-conceals-1000-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=81187","title":{"rendered":"A Picture Conceals 1000 Words"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><p>State senator John Marty &#8211; he of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=80965\">radical gun control bill<\/a> that the progressive caucus his flogging in the legislature, to try and fluff up progressive morale \u2013 took a picture at the \u201cMoms Demand Action&#8221; rally in front of the Minnesota state capital earlier this week.<\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><p>Here it is:<\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">It\u2019s an honor to stand w\/ <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MomsDemand?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@MomsDemand<\/a> at the Capitol. I\u2019m inspired by their dedication &amp; proud to fight with them to prevent more gun violence. Time for responsible gun regulation! Read my solution: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/sGGqsSTJ7I\">https:\/\/t.co\/sGGqsSTJ7I<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/mnleg?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#mnleg<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/EndGunViolence?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#EndGunViolence<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/huotforhouse?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@huotforhouse<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vVJyU180uQ\">pic.twitter.com\/vVJyU180uQ<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Senator John Marty (@JohnMarty) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JohnMarty\/status\/1504216856407719940?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 16, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Pretty impressive photo. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But&#8230;it sure is a nice tight angle shot, isn\u2019t it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There\u2019s a reason for that. Here\u2019s the wide shot of the same scene:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"622\" height=\"350\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/4d43d790-3033-4953-af61-b6891b657e62-9757-000004b1d6b9da8e_file.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-81185\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/4d43d790-3033-4953-af61-b6891b657e62-9757-000004b1d6b9da8e_file.jpg 622w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/4d43d790-3033-4953-af61-b6891b657e62-9757-000004b1d6b9da8e_file-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/4d43d790-3033-4953-af61-b6891b657e62-9757-000004b1d6b9da8e_file-500x281.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 622px) 100vw, 622px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Another angle? Sure:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"623\" height=\"467\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/50e35b01-6c12-4f88-bc28-a250dd4b3444-9757-000004b20b055e76_file.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-81186\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/50e35b01-6c12-4f88-bc28-a250dd4b3444-9757-000004b20b055e76_file.jpg 623w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/50e35b01-6c12-4f88-bc28-a250dd4b3444-9757-000004b20b055e76_file-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/50e35b01-6c12-4f88-bc28-a250dd4b3444-9757-000004b20b055e76_file-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 623px) 100vw, 623px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Since roughly the 2002 election, gun control in Minnesota has been a mile wide and an inch deep.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And, at least in Minnesota, at least this year,, where Michael Bloomberg\u2018s money is going to states where they\u2019ve got a chance of cramming down a symbolic victory, and not paying to drag &#8220;community groups&#8221; out for &#8220;spontaneous&#8221;, &#8220;community&#8221; protests, it&#8217;s not even that wide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State senator John Marty &#8211; he of the radical gun control bill that the progressive caucus his flogging in the legislature, to try and fluff up progressive morale \u2013 took a picture at the \u201cMoms Demand Action&#8221; rally in front of the Minnesota state capital earlier this week. Here it is: Pretty impressive photo. But&#8230;it [&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":[],"class_list":["post-81187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-victim-disarmament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81187","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=81187"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81197,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81187\/revisions\/81197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}