Over the years, Bluestem Prairie has covered the peculiar saga of the Minnesota Gun Rights organization in posts such as Sixteen pro-Second Amendment MN House members disavow Minnesota Gun Rights and A field guide to 2018 MN 2nd Amendment rallies.
On the right, Shot in the Dark blogger and gun rights supporter Mitch Berg has dove into the group's sketchiness in posts like Carpetbaggers, Carpetbaggers: In The Out Dorr and 2018 This Is Not The Rally You Want in which Berg observed:
Over the weekend, there was a “gun right rally”.
The rally was put on by a group called “Minnesota Gun Rights”. We’ve addressed this group in the past – for being a scam that fleeces Minnesota gun owners, and is politically ineffective at best (and at worst, they do more harm than good). Some legislators that once supported it have seen the light and condemned the group as a scam.
Unfortunately, the media doesn’t know the difference between gun rights groups; many Twin Cities news outlets credited the Minnesota Gun Owners’ Caucus and the Gun Owners Political Action Committee for the event (as they giggled about the fairly sparse turnout. . .
This past week, the group sent out a fundraising letter in an envelope calling Governor Tim Walz, Attorney General Keith Ellison and Minnesota House DFL Leaders "!!BERSERK!!" While Walz's image occupies the upper left hand cover of the envelope, Ellison's picture dominates the document. At the end of October in the race for Attorney General, Ellison's campaign had issued a statement about his opponent, Wardlow Shows True Colors on Gun Safety, Reverses Support for Background Checks and Accepts NRA Donations.
However, the Attorney General's role in passing legislation likely looms far less large than that of the Governor--and certainly smaller than the role of Speaker of the Minnesota House Melissa Hortman, who literally is out of this group's picture. Perhaps Hortman wasn't thought scary looking enough to provoke recipients to peek inside the missive.
Here's the fundraising letter a friend shared with Bluestem. Readers can make up their minds about what's truly berserk here.
Minnesota Gun Rights Januar.y 2019 Fundraising Letter.. uploaded by Sally Jo Sorensen on Scribd
Here's the Reply Form:
Minnesota Gun Rights' fundraising letter reply form... uploaded by Sally Jo Sorensen on Scribd
Visit the group's Facebook page here, to learn about how the group is ripping endorsed the Republican Party endorsed candidate in the Minnesota Senate District 11 special election:
Cryin' Jason Rarick for Senate, poor record, BAD votes on REAL ID, pledge breaker, being protected by the Minnesota Gun Owners Caucus, like so many other weak or outright anti-gun politicians!
When will this game end? When will they stop protecting politicians over the The People? Tune in!
Seems a bit berserk.
And there's a comment thread under a shared news news story about Jayme Closs's remarkable escape from her kidnapper and murderer of her parents in which the 13-year-old is judged to have been "involved" in the crime because of....assessments of her appearance. As one of the page's visitors wrote: "WTF is wrong with you...." It's the ultimate blaming of the victim. Heckova discourse.
Screengrab: From the scan of the envelope a friend sent us along with the berserk letter.
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