{"id":89966,"date":"2025-10-09T04:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T09:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89966"},"modified":"2025-10-09T06:33:23","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T11:33:23","slug":"the-very-special-session","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89966","title":{"rendered":"The Very Special Session"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Joe Doakes, formerly of Como Park, emails:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Governor Walz wants to call a special session of the legislature this Fall, but only if Democrats can get the legislation they want guaranteed in advance.&nbsp;&nbsp;Might be worth a look, assuming Republicans get the same deal.&nbsp; What do Democrats want?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/alphanews.org\/special-session-talks-break-down-as-republicans-say-dems-want-an-undefined-gun-ban\/\">Assault weapons ban<\/a>.&nbsp; High capacity magazine ban.&nbsp; Binary trigger ban.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Um, say Democrats, have any of you heard of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.supremecourt.gov\/opinions\/21pdf\/20-843_7j80.pdf\">the Bruen case<\/a>?&nbsp; &nbsp;Supreme Court held that the right to bear arms existed before the Constitution was adopted, so only regulations on firearms which existed prior to the Constitution can pass muster.&nbsp; None of your gun control ideas existed in 1789.&nbsp; All of your ideas are unconstitutional.&nbsp; Why are you holding up a special session to pass laws you know are unconstitutional?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Joe Doakes<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>To squeeze engagement out of their emotional, gullible base?\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tim Walz wants a taxpayer funded campaign ad.  <\/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-89966","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\/89966","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=89966"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89967,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89966\/revisions\/89967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}