{"id":960,"date":"2007-06-21T04:18:40","date_gmt":"2007-06-21T10:18:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php\/index.php\/2007\/06\/21\/when-among-piranhas-dont-smear-self-with-lard\/"},"modified":"2007-06-21T07:34:33","modified_gmt":"2007-06-21T13:34:33","slug":"when-among-piranhas-dont-smear-self-with-lard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=960","title":{"rendered":"When Among Piranhas, Don’t Smear Self With Lard"},"content":{"rendered":"

Listening to anti-concealed-types talking – four years after the Minnesota Personal Protection Act was first passed into law – you’d still <\/em>think that we concealed carry types were a bunch of blood-lusting troglodytes, stalking the world looking for innocent targets.<\/p>\n

Of course, it’s rubbish – the MPPA has been an incontrovertible success by any rational measure.<\/p>\n

Of course, the antis were never about rational measures – at least, not in terms of their public statements.<\/p>\n

But Joel Rosenberg notes something about Heather Martens<\/a>, head (and only employee) of Citizens for a Supine<\/strike> “Safer” Minnesota, at a recent gross mismatch<\/strike> “debate” at the U of M:<\/p>\n

I guess it could be argued \u2014 save for one thing — that she felt that her activism was important enough to take the risk of being in a room with dozens of people carrying, as they say, “loaded, concealed handguns”, which the CSM folks have assured us is a very dangerous thing to do.\u00a0 I guess it could be argued that she should be commended for her bravery, to take those risks to debate awkwardly (and it was awkward; Heather doesn’t do all that well in an interactive forum) against the commonsense notion that somebody who is licensed to carry a handgun in public can do so properly at the U if they’re a student or staff member, rather than just a visitor.<\/p>\n

I guess she could congratulate herself on that courage, taking those risks.\u00a0 Except for the one thing that makes it clear that even Heather doesn’t think there really were any risks in arguing with and among dozens of armed permit holders . . . one thing that makes it clear that even Heather<\/em> knows that being around armed permit holders isn’t risky at all:<\/p>\n

. . . she brought not only her husband, but her three-year-old daughter<\/strong>.\u00a0 Cute kid.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Wow.\u00a0 With all those guns, in the hands of permit-holders?<\/p>\n

Seems…out of character with years of CS<\/strike>“S”M’s propaganda, no?<\/p>\n

Rosenberg:<\/p>\n

I’m certainly critical of Heather, but she’s not an irresponsible mother \u2014 if she really believed that there was any danger from the permit holders, she would, of course, have left the child at home.<\/p>\n

We’ve come a long way, when even Heather gets it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Now if only she’s cry “Uncle”…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Listening to anti-concealed-types talking – four years after the Minnesota Personal Protection Act was first passed into law – you’d still think that we concealed carry types were a bunch of blood-lusting troglodytes, stalking the world looking for innocent targets. Of course, it’s rubbish – the MPPA has been an incontrovertible success by any rational […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-victim-disarmament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960","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=960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}