{"id":84776,"date":"2023-03-27T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-27T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=84776"},"modified":"2023-03-26T08:40:47","modified_gmt":"2023-03-26T13:40:47","slug":"how-i-spent-my-saturday-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=84776","title":{"rendered":"How I Spent My Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I did a prerecorded show, so I could attend the Minnesota Gun Owners Caucus&#8217;s annual (after a few years off) Rally at the Capitol. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Huge crowd.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"675\" height=\"900\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-7.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-84777\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-7.png 675w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-7-225x300.png 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Great speakers &#8211; Rob Doar, Bryan Strawser, Reverend Tim Christopher, and an array of pro-2nd Amendment legislators.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rob &#8211; the MNGOC&#8217;s political director &#8211; was able to announce that most of the DFL&#8217;s gun bills &#8211; the semi-auto\/&#8221;Assault Weapons&#8221; ban, the magazine limits, banning guns for people under 21 &#8211; are dead this session.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But Universal Registration and Red Flag Confiscation bills could still leak through.   Hence the rally &#8211; and Rob&#8217;s injunction that &#8220;we need ten of you for every one that&#8217;s here&#8221;.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you&#8217;re not in the MNGOC already, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gunowners.mn\">consider this your engraved invitation<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By the way: I&#8217;ve been to a lot of these rallies &#8211; like, all of them, ever &#8211; and I&#8217;ve never seen a police presence like I did on Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-8.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-84778\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-8.png 900w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-8-300x169.png 300w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-8-768x432.png 768w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-8-500x281.png 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">State Patrol, all over the main level.  There was an equal number of very bored officers at the lower entrace.  There were SP and SPPD cars parked at most of the. intersections within a block or two of the Capitol.  <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Rumor had it that the cops had been told to expect trouble.   No specifics about <em>who <\/em>was going to cause the trouble, or who felt it; I suspect the Speaker of the House and the Governor indulged their base and wanted to put on a show of force. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Notwithstanding, ,the cops were universally friendly, even helpful.   Not to project, but they knew that nobody was going to cause problems.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I did a prerecorded show, so I could attend the Minnesota Gun Owners Caucus&#8217;s annual (after a few years off) Rally at the Capitol. Huge crowd. Great speakers &#8211; Rob Doar, Bryan Strawser, Reverend Tim Christopher, and an array of pro-2nd Amendment legislators. Rob &#8211; the MNGOC&#8217;s political director &#8211; was able to announce that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-minnesota-politics","category-victim-disarmament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84776","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=84776"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84779,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84776\/revisions\/84779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}