{"id":89199,"date":"2025-02-10T05:58:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-10T11:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89199"},"modified":"2025-02-10T06:15:27","modified_gmt":"2025-02-10T12:15:27","slug":"the-real-problem-in-minnesota","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89199","title":{"rendered":"The Real Problem In Minnesota&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8230;is law-abiding citizens buying guns at gun shows.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Not guys like 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\">Fred Miles Thompson, Jr., 25, was picked up by the MNDOC Fugitive Unit with assist from MPD near 42nd and Logan Ave N in Minneapolis on Friday morning.<br><br>Thompson was sentenced to a &quot;mandatory&quot; 5 years for felon in possession of a firearm in Sept. 2023.<br><br>[counts on fingers and\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0LJMLZnaZ2\">pic.twitter.com\/0LJMLZnaZ2<\/a><\/p>&mdash; CrimeWatchMpls (@CrimeWatchMpls) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CrimeWatchMpls\/status\/1885612763453575342?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 1, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>For those who don&#8217;t scroll down in these attached Tweets:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Thompson was sentenced to a &#8220;mandatory&#8221; 5 years for felon in possession of a firearm in Sept. 2023. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[counts on fingers and toes&#8230;] that means he should still be in prison, right??<\/p>\n<p>Nope, not in Minnesota. <strong>He was released early by the UNELECTED MNDOC Commissioner Paul Schnell<\/strong> (appointed by Timmy) after just one year, in Oct. 2024, despite the fact that he&#8217;s a repeat violent offender, who already had THREE prior convictions on gun cases, including machine gun possession.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Wonder if he took a &#8220;universal&#8221; background check?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;is law-abiding citizens buying guns at gun shows.\u00a0 Not guys like this: For those who don&#8217;t scroll down in these attached Tweets: Wonder if he took a &#8220;universal&#8221; background check?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-and-punishment","category-victim-disarmament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89199","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=89199"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89200,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89199\/revisions\/89200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}