Gun Rights group takes aim at Senate GOP (MN)

[jpak]

http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/polinaut/archive/2011/05/gun_rights_grou.shtml

The gun rights group, The Gun Owners Civil Rights Alliance, is taking aim at Republicans in the Minnesota Senate for not taking up a bill that would change when it's legal for a person to shoot someone in self defense.

The Minnesota House already passed the bill and supporters were lobbying the Senate to pass it as well. The Gun Owners Civil Rights Alliance sent out an action alert today that says the Senate has decided to not take up the bill this session.

In a strongly worded e-mail, the group suggests that Senate Republicans "made a deliberate, political decision to refuse to put the bill on Governor Dayton's desk." The e-mail also reminds supporters to tell their Senators that "gun owners vote - and that they have very long memories.

The issue is a dicey political issue for Republicans. On the one hand, the NRA and other gun rights group align themselves more with the GOP. But law enforcement groups have lines up against the bill. Gov. Dayton has also suggested he would veto it.

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I smell angry gun-extremist teabaggers!

:rofl:

[ileus]

1. Sounds like they're doing what right for their interest... +1 GOCRA

[jpak]

2. Sounds like the MN GOP is getting cold feet and do not want to be portrayed as gun extremists

they fear the backlash that is coming In 2012

yup

[GreenStormCloud]

3. That doesn't make sense.

a bill that would change when it's legal for a person to shoot someone in self defense. There isn't an age restriction on self-defense.

[Oneka]

4. He is refering

To this bill.
https://www.revisor.mn.gov/revisor/pages/search_status/status_detail.php?b=House&f=HF1467&ssn=0&y=2011&ls=87


Which our senate has failed to vote on , and tabled for this session.

[rl6214]

5. Hmmmm, I don't see anything in the story about tbaggers

are you full of shit again as usual?