Fierce Patriots

Conservative Political News

  • Subscribe

<![CDATA[Minnesota]]>

Marjorie Taylor Greene Trolls Kamala Harris With Inconvenient Reminder, Makes Larger Point in the Process

by Leave a Comment

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) has had to be feeling pretty good over the last few weeks.

There was her takedown of CNN “reporter” Jim Acosta’s pathetic attempt at “gotcha” journalism, all caught on video. There was a judge’s ruling earlier this month that the claims against her by a group of radical leftists seeking to have her tossed off the ballot because she allegedly incited the Capitol riot had no merit. Plus, Greene, like many other pro-life conservatives, has to be stoked over learning via the Supreme Court draft majority opinion leak that the 1973 Roe v. Wade abortion ruling might be overturned.

That good feeling of being on the winning side of multiple arguments was likely part of what motivated Greene to take to the Twitter machine Monday to troll Vice President Kamala Harris who, like her boss, hasn’t had much to smile about politically-speaking in quite some time.

Here’s what Greene tweeted:

Many readers will recall that back in the summer of 2020 as the Antifa/Black Lives Matter-led riots were beginning to rage in Democrat-run cities across the country in response to the officer-involved death of Minneapolis resident George Floyd, Harris gleefully posted her support of the “Minnesota Freedom Fund” – a fund set up by professional agitators on the left to get those who looted small and big businesses alike and who torched entire city blocks in Minneapolis without regard to any of the city’s residents out of jail.

In the immediate aftermath of the early rioting and fire-setting in Minneapolis, frustrated residents of the city – including senior citizens – were seen in interviews on TV crying and cursing about what the rioters had done, making the point that what they did helped absolutely no one. But not Harris, who at the time had already dropped out of the presidential race but was still being floated as a possible vice presidential pick for Joe Biden. This was her urging her followers to donate to the rioter bailout fund:

I have zero doubt that Harris, a former prosecutor, knows exactly how such types of funds are typically used. The money is set aside to bail out some of the worst offenders who are arrested during so-called “peaceful protests.” These same offenders invariably turn right around and commit more wrongdoing, with some of it being even worse than what they were originally arrested for. This is exactly what happened in the case of the Minnesota bail fund, which bailed out a twice-convicted sex offender, a woman charged with second-degree murder, and two men who went on to participate in separate violent attacks on senior citizens.

Greene’s tweet was a timely reminder that unlike the false allegations of “inciting” the Capitol riot that were made against Greene and others, the people who pretend to be the most outraged about what happened on Jan. 6th, 2020 are actually guilty in the minds of many of much worse, as we’ve repeatedly been reminded in the aftermath of the SCOTUS leak.

Related: ‘Insurrection’ Trends After Hysterical Democrats at Long Last Get Hoist by Their Own Petard

MN gubernatorial candidate offers mea culpa on gun control

by Leave a Comment

There are a number of candidates who have offered support for gun control in the past. They either claim they didn’t mean what their words actually said or they blame co-authors. They rarely ever admit they may have supported a bad idea in the distant past.

Yet in Minnesota, one candidate did just that.

One of the main issues in statewide and local races this fall will be violent crime and gun violence.

Saturday night, newly-nominated Republican candidate for governor Dr. Scott Jensen apologized to delegates for once being on the wrong side of the gun control issue.

…

“My effort in 2018 was klutzy,” he said. “It was born of a rookie’s, non-veteran understanding of how things work, and so I apologized to the group. I put them in a place that made them uncomfortable and it was a mistake. I wish, if I had a mulligan I would have done it over.”

Unfortunately, some are taking issue with Jensen for “flip-flopping” on the issue, including some Republicans.

However, I think that’s the wrong strategy to take.

The truth is, Jensen supported gun control in the past and now he’s saying he doesn’t. The difference between someone like him and Dr. Oz is that he’s not trying to gaslight people into believing he didn’t support stuff he clearly did.

Instead, he’s saying he was wrong and has learned from that mistake.

To blast Jensen for owning up to the inescapable truth and offering a mea culpa is to discourage honesty from politicians. You’re going to get candidates telling you that they didn’t support red flag laws despite their words to the contrary because they can get away with that easier than they can for admitting their mistake.

If the GOP does down this road and gives Jensen so much crap that he cannot win over his own admitted mistakes will simply discourage others from admitting their mistakes.

This may well to people refusing to change their minds because it’s politically untenable to do so. When it comes to our gun rights, I’d much rather have people see the light than be afraid of worse issues later if they don’t double down on bad positions.

Gun control is an issue and yeah, I’d much rather see support go to a candidate who has been supportive of gun rights the whole time.

Yet Jensen is the nominee and he’s coming right out and admitting his past mistakes with gun control were just that, mistakes. Ones he wouldn’t repeat.

That’s behavior that should be encouraged and celebrated. Jensen is a freaking hero–in the political sense, anyway–for owning up to his past. It should be far more preferable to see this than the previous examples of gaslighting we’ve had from GOP hopefuls.

People change their minds. They do it all the time. You’ve changed your mind on something or other, so why does Jensen get denied the right to do just that?

It’s not flip-flopping if it’s not a case of his mind changing every time the wind blows.

New licensing bill based on ignorance.. or outright stupidity

by Leave a Comment

I’ve never met Minnesota state Senator John Marty, so I can’t judge which is the more likely possibility, but I do know that it’s been a long time since I’ve run across a lawmaker who’s so clueless about what existing gun laws look like.

Marty is proposing a bill mandating licensing for all gun owners; a proposal that the Democrat says would make it harder for juveniles to obtain a firearm.

Marty told 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS he is trying to target juveniles and young adults whom he said often have an easy path toward buying guns.

“For young people, the 15-year-olds who can easily access guns now and commit armed carjackings and murders and other things, you know, they would have to go through training and they would have to go through a process to do this,” said Marty. “And, we would have limits so that some of these 16-year-olds couldn’t go out and buy guns.”

On today’s Bearing Arms’ Cam & Co we delve deeply into Marty’s misconceptions, starting with his apparent belief that 15-year olds can currently walk into a gun store and purchase a handgun after going through a background check. Why else would Marty claim that the teens who “can easily access guns now” would “have to go through training” and “a process” going forward? Is his bill actually going to allow 15-year olds to lawfully purchase a firearm as long as they get a license first? I doubt it, given that a change of that magnitude would violate federal law as well as upend Minnesota state statutes.

Still, it’s hard to come up with any other conclusion, given that Marty went on to say that if his bill passes “some of these 16-year olds” would be unable to buy a gun.

Here’s a news flash for Sen. Marty: no 16-year old is legally purchasing a firearm in Minnesota right now, and mandating a license for all gun owners going forward would have no impact whatsoever on teens getting guns. Under both Minnesota and federal law, buyers of long guns must be 18-years of age and 21-years old to purchase a handgun at retail. And while state law is silent on a minimum age to purchase a firearm in private sales, state statute generally bars possession of a firearm by minors unless they have permission of a parent or guardian.

What’s more, Minnesota state law bars anyone from lawfully carrying a firearm, either openly or concealed, without a carry license, and you must be 21-years of age in order to obtain a carry license. In other words, there’s no way for a 16-year old to legally acquire and carry a gun in order to commit a carjacking, murder, or any other violent crime.

Sen. Marty isn’t letting a little thing like the truth stand in the way of his new anti-gun proposal, however. He even has a fallback argument, though honestly it’s just as dumb as claiming that a gun licensing mandate will prevent teens from illegally arming themselves.

“It seems to me that it is no more of a burden on lawful gun owners than driver’s licenses are a lawful burden on drivers,” said Marty.

It seems to me that the good people of Minnesota Senate District 66 would be better off voting for a turnip next time around rather than sending Marty back to Minneapolis for another four year term. Never mind that driving isn’t an enumerated right like the right to keep and bear arms, or that no drivers license is required to own a car or to drive it on your own private property (unlike Marty’s proposed gun licensing bill, which would apply to everyone who wants to have a gun in their private home). Marty’s whole schtick is that 15-year olds will be stopped from committing carjackings if there’s a gun licensing law in place. If that were true, then why are 15-year olds getting behind the wheel of a car they’ve stolen at gunpoint, given that you have to be 16-years old to get a drivers license in the state?

Amazingly, Marty seems completely unfamiliar with the concept of criminals not giving a sh*t about what the law actually entails, especially if they don’t fear the consequences of getting caught.

Unfortunately Marty was handily re-elected two years ago in a deep blue district, so odds are his current gig is his as long as he wants the job. There is one small bit of good news about Marty’s dumb idea, however. While the gun licensing bill does have a House co-sponsor, neither bill has received a single committee hearing this year, which at this point in the session is a pretty good sign that the legislation is going nowhere.

Juvenile crime is a serious problem in Minnesota these days, but Marty’s bill is a decidedly unserious solution. Rather than expecting 15-year olds to obey a gun licensing law when they’re already violating the state’s statutes on carjackings, aggravated assault, home invasion, and murder (not to mention the state’s carry laws), Marty should go back to the drawing board and come up with a bill that ensures young offenders face some genuine consequences for their gun-involved offenses.