{"id":84850,"date":"2023-04-03T08:31:05","date_gmt":"2023-04-03T13:31:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=84850"},"modified":"2023-04-03T08:31:05","modified_gmt":"2023-04-03T13:31:05","slug":"just-a-little-day-brightener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=84850","title":{"rendered":"Just A Little Day Brightener"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It&#8217;s a gloomy, cloudy Monday morning. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And yet my heart is dancing.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Because it&#8217;s another day alive in God&#8217;s creation?  Sure. Goes without saying, but needs to be repeated anyway.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But beyond that?  There&#8217;s this:<\/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\">We want to thank an anti-gun activist for posting the fabulous letter from Anoka County Attorney Brad Johnson to the legislature about House File 396 &#8211; the &quot;safe&quot; storage bill.  We&#39;ve had a copy of the letter but were told it wasn&#39;t public.  <br><br>It is hands down one of the best\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/C6r4Uq1v2K\">pic.twitter.com\/C6r4Uq1v2K<\/a><\/p>&mdash; MN Gun Owners Caucus (@mnguncaucus) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mnguncaucus\/status\/1642874224002969601?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 3, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s the Anoka County Attorney slapping down Jamie Becker-Finn over the proposed &#8220;safe storage&#8221; bill, which would have required all guns to be stored unloaded, with ammo locked up separately from the guns, and required a carry permit to have an uncased, loaded gun <em>in the home<\/em>, allowing police wide latitude to barge in and check on the above. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s fairly clearly a Fourth Amendment shortcut.  It would disproportionately affect Black and Latino gun owners. It&#8217;s patently unconstitutional.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And any day that starts with Rep. Becker-Finn getting water squirted on her nose is a good, glorious day.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a gloomy, cloudy Monday morning. And yet my heart is dancing. Because it&#8217;s another day alive in God&#8217;s creation? Sure. Goes without saying, but needs to be repeated anyway. But beyond that? There&#8217;s this: It&#8217;s the Anoka County Attorney slapping down Jamie Becker-Finn over the proposed &#8220;safe storage&#8221; bill, which would have required all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,320,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-minnesota-politics","category-mndfl","category-victim-disarmament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84850","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=84850"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84851,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84850\/revisions\/84851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}