{"id":363,"date":"2009-02-05T20:06:56","date_gmt":"2009-02-05T20:06:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/monachuslex.com\/?p=363"},"modified":"2009-02-05T20:06:56","modified_gmt":"2009-02-05T20:06:56","slug":"when-is-it-good-to-fail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monachuslex.com\/?p=363","title":{"rendered":"When is it good to fail?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"ANSWER:\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>When it is the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence (formerly Handgun Control, Inc.) who is grading you!<\/p>\n

The Brady Campaign has just released their 2008 state scorecards and I am proud to say that\u00a0Minnesota\u00a0has failed miserably!\u00a0\u00a0Scoring a mere 11 points out of a possible 100,\u00a0Minnesota\u00a0has once again failed to infringe enough of their citizens\u2019 rights to satisfy the extremists at the Brady Campaign.<\/p>\n

You see \u2026 the way it works is this.\u00a0\u00a0The Brady Campaign awards points for each infringement that a state has enacted such as banning certain classes of firearms altogether, outlawing private sales and requiring as-yet non-existent personalization technology on firearms.\u00a0\u00a0A score of 100 would, in their eyes, mean that you live in a utopia.\u00a0\u00a0In practice, it probably means that you live in a dictatorship or under the rule of an authoritarian regime.<\/p>\n

Despite the fact that Minnesotans are already burdened with a number of requirements that are more stringent than most states such as a 7 day waiting period on the purchase of handguns and so-called \u201cassault\u201d weapons, the Brady Campaign feels that Minnesota has not regulated their citizens nearly enough.<\/p>\n

Once again, the Brady Campaign has missed the point and chosen to attack law-abiding hunters and gun owners rather than address the root causes of crime in our culture such as poverty, drug addiction, mental health treatment and social and economic hopelessness.\u00a0\u00a0If\u00a0Minnesota\u00a0needs to improve its approach to crime prevention, then it should start by lifting up those in need and not by pushing down on law-abiding gun owners!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ANSWER:\u00a0\u00a0When it is the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence (formerly Handgun Control, Inc.) who is grading you! The Brady Campaign has just released their 2008 state scorecards and I am proud to say that\u00a0Minnesota\u00a0has failed miserably!\u00a0\u00a0Scoring a mere 11 … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,36,90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brady-campaign","category-gun-control","category-state-laws"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monachuslex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/monachuslex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/monachuslex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monachuslex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monachuslex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/monachuslex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monachuslex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monachuslex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monachuslex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}