Gun lobby flexing in greater Minnesota

[jdege]

https://minnesotareformer.com/2023/03/08/gun-lobby-flexing-in-greater-minnesota/
Gun lobby flexing in greater Minnesota

GRAND RAPIDS, ITASCA COUNTY — Here’s how the gun rights lobby is shrewdly working to shore up local opposition to gun control bills making their way through the DFL-majority Legislature.

Last month, newly elected Itasca County Board member John Johnson requested that a pro-Second Amendment resolution be added to the consent agenda. That was on a Saturday. The meeting was on Tuesday.

The consent agenda is typically used for ordinary, small-bore issues — an equipment purchase needed, an employee retiring, an undisputed land transaction, etc.

Not resolutions that make broad statements about one of the most polarizing political issues of the past half century.

[Jackpine Savage]

I bet she never accuses the Left of 'flexing'.

[jdege]

Only the left is supposed to organize, lobby, and push through their preferred policies.

[Jackpine Savage]

Don't forget riot, vandalize, terrorize, blow up, etc, etc, etc.

[jdege]

Don't forget riot, vandalize, terrorize, blow up, etc, etc, etc.

It's not a riot, if it's the left doing it.

[Holland&Holland]

I identify as a gun nut. My pronouns are .45 and 9mm. I get triggered if someone says something disparaging about cordite.

[bstrawse]

I'm highly amused by this coverage because this was almost entirely driven by activists in the county who have been pushing for this -- all the "gun lobby", i.e. US, did was give them sample resolutions and some scripts/talking points to use in the conversations.

Bryan