{"id":85558,"date":"2023-07-17T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-17T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=85558"},"modified":"2023-07-17T10:18:40","modified_gmt":"2023-07-17T15:18:40","slug":"a-nation-of-boogiemen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=85558","title":{"rendered":"A Nation Of Boogiemen"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

It’s this blog’s considered position that DFL politicians can say pretty much anything they want; they know that the typical DFL voter, while invincibly smug about their education, is incredibly badly informed and, being a trained regurgitator of dogma, has no capacity for critical thought. They also know that the Twin Cities’ subservient news media – being mostly from that same population – won’t do anything to fix that. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Which is why Melvin Carter can write bilge like this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/melvincarter3\/status\/1680646912913952770\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Now, you <\/em>know gun store owners aren’t clairvoyant. And I know it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And so does Melvin Carter. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

He knows that a “straw buyer” is someone who:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. Uses his or her clean criminal record<\/em> – with no <\/em>indication they might be a probem, and<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. Knowingly sells or gives guns to criminals. <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    And Mayor Carter also knows that neither the Hennepin nor Ramsey County attorneys, going back decades, is especially enthusiastic about going after straw buyers. Nobody ever got elected Senator by putting a gang-banger’s girlfriend in jail. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    But they typical DFL voter? Someone who learned their law enforcement from a video game or an episode of “Criminal Minds?” They likely do <\/em>think there’s some way for a gun store worker to tell if the person showing their ID is one of the 99.999% of gun buyers who are legit, or that other one who’ll sell a gun to a ne’er do well who goes on to shoot up a bar in Saint Paul. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    And they just don’t care that much anyway. <\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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