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STRAIGHT OUTTA PIERRE | Capitol crowd proves nuance still hurts South Dakota egos

Sharp, snappy and South Dakotan — an anonymous shot of insight with a twist of sarcasm

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Bo Hutchins
Feb 15, 2026
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South Dakota Republicans have spent decades treating the Second Amendment like sacred text. Beyond debate. Beyond context. Beyond inconvenience. Any gun law anywhere was framed as an assault on freedom. Questions were suspect. Restraint was weakness. Absolutism was the point.

Until Minneapolis.

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Bo’s hunted pheasants, landed walleyes, and spent 30 years in SD politics. He’s outlasted careers, been ignored, occasionally thanked, and still knows when someone’s bluffing—or just rehearsing for the next season.
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