{"id":89365,"date":"2025-03-10T06:33:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-10T11:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89365"},"modified":"2025-03-10T06:45:35","modified_gmt":"2025-03-10T11:45:35","slug":"if-its-a-day-ending-in-y","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89365","title":{"rendered":"If It&#8217;s A Day Ending In &#8220;Y&#8221;&#8230;&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8230;then governor Piglet and the DFL are lying about self-defense reform.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>To recap:&nbsp; In Minnesota, if you&#8217;re outside your house, to use lethal force in self-defense you must:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Reasonbly and immediately fear getting killed or maimed<\/li>\n<li>Not be the aggressor<\/li>\n<li>Use only the force needed to end the threat<\/li>\n<li>Make a <em>reasonable&nbsp;<\/em>effort to retreat (remember &#8211; doesn&#8217;t apply at home).&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>House File 13 &#8211; a &#8220;Stand your Ground&#8221; bill &#8211; would remove <em>only the last bullet<\/em>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And any smart person knows that. <\/p>\n<p>But smart people aren&#8217;t the DFL&#8217;s niche:<\/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\">\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/mnguncaucus\/status\/1897738737062494607\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>BTW, the &#8220;Stand your Ground&#8221; bill was defeated on a straight party-line tie in the House last week.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>That means votes are on record.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The last time the House DFL voted straight-line against a gun-rights bill that lost a floor vote was 2002, when &#8220;Shall Issue&#8221; permit reform was barely defeated.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The GOP went on to win every single one of those outstate DFL seats; every outstate DFLer that voted against gun rights lost that fall.\u00a0 And with a GOP House and Governor (and a few iron Range DFL senators voting &#8220;yes&#8221;), Shall Issue passed the following session.<\/p>\n<p>Keep that anger going.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It can not be the <em>only\u00a0<\/em>issue that the GOP rides on (and it won&#8217;t be), and the MN Gun Owners Caucus\u00a0<em>must\u00a0<\/em>not be the only functional, focused group working conservative causes (and I don&#8217;t think it will be). <\/p>\n<p>This this can be, and must be, a potent part of the right&#8217;s approach in this next election. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;then governor Piglet and the DFL are lying about self-defense reform.&nbsp; To recap:&nbsp; In Minnesota, if you&#8217;re outside your house, to use lethal force in self-defense you must: Reasonbly and immediately fear getting killed or maimed Not be the aggressor Use only the force needed to end the threat Make a reasonable&nbsp;effort to retreat (remember [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[132,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mn-legislature","category-victim-disarmament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89365","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=89365"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89370,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89365\/revisions\/89370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}