Gun owners.
When we’re on the defensive – as we were 3-4 years ago, here in Minnesota – we are the most motivated people in politics. We make people sit up and listen – or we throw them out of office.
But when times are less perilous? It’s another story. And it’s understandable; unlike the anti-gun / criminal safety movement, we have jobs, families and real lives. We can’t just drop everything and run down to spend a day at the Capitol for anything but a serious emergency.
And let’s be honest – compared to 15 years ago, never mind 30 years ago, we Real Americans of the 2nd Amendment movement are doing pretty well. The 2nd Amendment may be the only liberty where the needle has been pushed the right way – but we have pushed it.
But complacency is what got us the 1970s. And it could happen again.
This year, there are two important 2nd Amendment-related civil rights bills on the agenda:
- HF188, authored by Rep. Jim Nash, would make permits to carry optional throughout Minnesota. A law-abiding citizen should not have to beg government permission to carry a firearm – and the little card has no bearing on whether people commit crimes or not.
- HF238, also authored by Rep. Nash, provides some much-needed reforms Minnesota’s self-defense laws, codifying decades of case law (thus removing nobody-knows-how-many felony traps from the rules of self-defense), removing the so-called “duty to retreat” in Minnesota law.
Now, it’s was a fair bet Governor Dayton would have vetoed either or both bills.
And then again, maybe not; antagonizing shooters helped the DFL lose pretty much all of rural Minnesota; Dayton could easily have doomed a few more of the remaining outstate Democrats by vetoing these bills – and caused any number of other headaches by vetoing the omnibus bills they were going to be parts of.
But the GOP caucuses haven’t put the bills into the omnibuses yet. Word has it that Senate leadership is “playing defense”, trying not to lose seats (notwithstanding their next election isn’t until 2020). And if the Senate isn’t going to push the bills, there’s no point in the GOP pushing them. Right?
Wrong.
And there’s a report that at least one GOP legislator from a safer-than-safe district is afraid of the Dreamsicles.
It’s time for the GOP to pay back some of the political capital that the 2nd Amendment movement has invested in it. And if safe Republicans are going to profess political “fear” a couple dozen ELCA-haired, deluded bobbleheads in orange? It might be time for them to re-learn what political “fear” really is.
And that means you and I need to step up.
It’s Go Time. It’s time for all law-abiding 2nd Amendment human rights supporters to get on the line and burn up the phones, today.
Call your representative and your Senator.
And call:
House Speaker Rep. Kurt Daudt
Office: 651-296-5364
E-Mail: rep.kurt.daudt@house.mn
Majority Leader Rep. Joyce Peppin
Office: 651-296-7806
E-Mail: rep.joyce.peppin@house.mn
Public Safety Committee Chairman Tony Cornish
Office: 651-296-4240
E-Mail: rep.tony.cornish@house.mn
Politely tell them that they need to deliver. We’re not complacent, and our support is not to be taken for granted.
This needs to be a political flood of biblical proportions.
And if both my state rep and sen are anti-gun dems?
Tell them, as a committed democrat, you’ve come to realize that gun control is a losing battle, politically, and you’d prefer that dems stop throwing themselves on this sword, and reserve their efforts for the fights that really matter, like trans-gender bathrooms.
Then they will start begging me for money, if they think I am one of them.
JDege’s not a bad idea. Throw in that gun control is racist (which it is).
If you don’t wanna do that, Loren, then call Kurt Daudt and Paul Gazelka.
I need to talk to Dario, I fear he’s getting soft on the 2A
Not sure what to think about this, but there is a church in a higher crime area of the Twin Cities. They applied for insurance. The insurance company sent someone to inspect the property for risks. He asked if there were any guns on the property. Some of the ushers are CC holders and carry at the church. He immediately declined them only for that reason.
I heard this from the insurance inspector (who has an aversion to firearms). I do not know what church this was.
I suppose you can argue that the insurance company should be able to decline service to anyone they want. But I am uncomfortable with they being declined said service for exercising their 2nd amendment rights.
The insurance inspector said (to me) that “they could start shooting at any time”. I tried to explain how CC training works and the various safeguards those people employ (see Mitch Berg’s 4 or 5 rules that have to be meet before you can use your firearm). I do have a problem with the church being refused service by the insurance company because their inspector is an anti-2nd amendment rights bigot.
Just left a bunch of voice mails. I know how my Metrocrat rep and senator are going to vote. Would be great to have my senator get another spanking after her NO vote on Sunday liquor sales. Elections have consequences.
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Dario’s not “soft” his aunt is high up in the orange shirt crowd. He has reposted a commentary of hers on facebook. I wouldn’t worry about him too much though, you can afford to lose his vote, assuming his familial loyalty goes that far. If it’s not a personal issue for him he would do well to notice that gun ownership/permit to carry in Edina has increased just like it has everywhere else and being on the wrong side of this issue is going to lose him votes not get him any cross-overs or at least not enough.