WELL, TO BE FAIR, BY “NATIONAL CONVERSATION” THEY GENERALLY MEAN “SHUT UP WHILE WE YELL AT YOU.” MN Democrats Abandon ‘National Conversation’ on Guns — Literally. “At a meeting, elected officials simply get up and leave during a gun expert’s presentation. . . . It certainly does appear that elected officials left the room to avoid expert testimony that would have better educated them about the issues they intended to legislate on.”