{"id":84097,"date":"2022-12-19T11:20:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-19T17:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=84097"},"modified":"2024-06-03T12:43:12","modified_gmt":"2024-06-03T17:43:12","slug":"mission-creepy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=84097","title":{"rendered":"Mission Creepy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I used to think DFLers merely counted on voters being ignorant. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I was young and naive.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They actively <em>promote <\/em>ignorance:<\/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\">Heart breaking feature in the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nytimes?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@nytimes<\/a> magazine about the leading cause of death of children in America: gun violence. Let\u2019s resolve to stop this epidemic of preventable deaths of our kids. We can\u2019t afford not to.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/EndGunViolence?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#EndGunViolence<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ForAHealthyThrivingMinnesota?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ForAHealthyThrivingMinnesota<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jcsyWubrwu\">pic.twitter.com\/jcsyWubrwu<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Kelly Morrison (@Morrison4MN) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Morrison4MN\/status\/1604477671219826688?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 18, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Senator Morrison is an M.D, so she certainly isn&#8217;t stupid.  She <em>must <\/em>know that the imponderably vast majority of those &#8220;children&#8221;. are boys aged 14+ who are involved in crime, mostly murdered by other young men like themselves, likewise started on the wrong path bright and early in life.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She <em>must <\/em>know that the only things that actually work to prevent that sort of carnage are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Using the sentencing enhancements for gun crimes that so helped in cleaning up New York City thirty years ago &#8211; the type that Mike Freeman and John Choi <em>never <\/em>use on criminals of <em>any <\/em>age, and that Mary Moriarty hahahahahahaha I can&#8217;t even finish the sentence with a straight face. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Intervening with youth at risk of going into The Life.  <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Certainly she&#8217;s had this shown to her.  There&#8217;s no way that hasn&#8217;t happened. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So she&#8217;s counting on promoting ignorance.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Look for a lot of that this session. <\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I used to think DFLers merely counted on voters being ignorant. I was young and naive. They actively promote ignorance: Senator Morrison is an M.D, so she certainly isn&#8217;t stupid. She must know that the imponderably vast majority of those &#8220;children&#8221;. are boys aged 14+ who are involved in crime, mostly murdered by other young [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,320,22],"tags":[465],"class_list":["post-84097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-and-punishment","category-mndfl","category-victim-disarmament","tag-mary-moriarty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84097","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=84097"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84098,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84097\/revisions\/84098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}