{"id":68218,"date":"2018-10-12T05:35:48","date_gmt":"2018-10-12T10:35:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=68218"},"modified":"2018-10-12T07:57:32","modified_gmt":"2018-10-12T12:57:32","slug":"angie-craig-miracle-worker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=68218","title":{"rendered":"Angie Craig: Miracle Worker!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Angie Craig would seem to have been the first person in the world to have discovered an &#8220;NRA sharpshooter&#8221; who keeps his finger on the trigger <em>while racking a round.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>He also points the gun at his hand during the course of the commercial.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BfXHbA7GFjc\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re a non-shooter: &#8220;Keep your finger off the trigger until you&#8217;re ready to shoot&#8221; and &#8220;don&#8217;t point your gun at something you&#8217;re not willing to destroy, right now&#8221; are two of the inviolable rules of gun safety.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_68223\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Finger.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-68223\" class=\"wp-image-68223 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Finger-300x181.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"181\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Finger-300x181.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Finger-768x464.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Finger-497x300.jpg 497w, https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Finger.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-68223\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;Sharpshooter&#8221;? Please. Any competent range safety officer would look at this and yell at him so hard it&#8217;d give him dermabrasion. This is Angie Craig&#8217;s tame Fudd shooter.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Anyone breaking those rules claiming to be a &#8220;sharpshooter&#8221; of any kind is a fraud and a liar. And so is any politician putting them out there.<\/p>\n<p>If this guy is a credible voice for shooters, I&#8217;m a point guard on the Portland Trailblazers. And Angie Craig is, well, a businesswoman.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, the guy in the ad is a known gun control activist \u2013 and if he was ever an NRA member, it was a long, long time ago. Judging by his grip, that was the last time he shot a firearm, too. The ad is playing to what we human rights activists call the &#8220;Fudds &#8221; &#8211; hunters who figure, wrongly, that gun controllers will never come for their deer rifles and duck guns.<\/p>\n<p>This ad \u2013 and Angie Craig &#8211; need to be mocked and taunted.<\/p>\n<p>Pass the video around for suitable mocking and taunting.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE:\u00a0 The guy is &#8220;Bob Mokos&#8221;, and we&#8217;ve sort of met.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=59016\">I went to the &#8220;Protect&#8221; MN \/ Moms Want Action event\u00a0 oin the . mean streets of Eagan a couple years ago.\u00a0 \u00a0I saw him give his speech<\/a>.\u00a0 \u00a0And I was struck &#8211; then as now &#8211; by the fact that at no point in his story about his sister&#8217;s murder did he ever mention\u00a0<em>a perpetrator<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Not once.<\/p>\n<p>Nothing.<\/p>\n<p>Seemed odd to me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Angie Craig would seem to have been the first person in the world to have discovered an &#8220;NRA sharpshooter&#8221; who keeps his finger on the trigger while racking a round. He also points the gun at his hand during the course of the commercial. If you&#8217;re a non-shooter: &#8220;Keep your finger off the trigger until [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[366],"tags":[399],"class_list":["post-68218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-18","tag-angie-craig"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68218"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68227,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68218\/revisions\/68227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}