{"id":33364,"date":"2012-12-24T18:55:35","date_gmt":"2012-12-24T22:55:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=33364"},"modified":"2012-12-24T19:05:20","modified_gmt":"2012-12-24T23:05:20","slug":"the-media-and-guns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=33364","title":{"rendered":"The media and guns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I guess NBC&#8217;s David Gregory fancies himself in the vanguard of gun control in the media. He confronted Wayne LaPierre, from the NRA yesterday on Meet the Press with what looks like a 30-round AR15 magazine. <\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=33365\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-33365\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/DavidGregory-300x224.png\" alt=\"DavidGregory\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-33365\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/DavidGregory-300x224.png 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/DavidGregory.png 475w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The problem is that the NBC studio is in downtown DC a few blocks from the White House and large box magazines (more than 10 round capacity) are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.handgunlaw.us\/states\/dc.pdf\">illegal in the District to even possess<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>D.C. Official Code \u00a7 7-2506.01<br \/>\n\u201c(b) No person in the District shall possess, sell, or transfer any large capacity ammunition feeding device regardless of whether the device is attached to a firearm. For the purposes of this subsection, the term \u201clarge capacity ammunition feeding device\u201d means a magazine, belt, drum, feed strip, or similar device that has a capacity of, or that can be readily restored or converted to accept, more than 10 rounds of ammunition.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m pretty sure that the law means &#8220;no person&#8221; when it says &#8220;no person&#8221; and that Gregory is indeed a person, regardless of his intent of bringing that magazine into the District.<\/p>\n<p>Besides breaking the law, Gregory wanted to put his hypocrisy on display by poking LaPierre about his idea for having armed personnel in schools to protect the children. The <a href=\"http:\/\/m.weeklystandard.com\/blogs\/gregory-mocks-lapierre-proposing-armed-guards-sends-kids-high-security-school_691057.html\">Weekly Standard<\/a> had this to say about that;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>But when it comes to Gregory&#8217;s own kids, however, they are secured every school day by armed guards.<\/p>\n<p>The Gregory children go to school with the children of President Barack Obama, according to the Washington Post. That school is the co-ed Quaker school Sidwell Friends.<\/p>\n<p>According to a scan of the school&#8217;s online faculty-staff directory, Sidwell has a security department made up of at least 11 people. Many of those are police officers, who are presumably armed.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, with the Obama kids in attendance, there is a secret service presence at the institution, as well. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s safe to say the school where Gregory sends his kids is a high-security school. It&#8217;s just odd he&#8217;d want it for his kids, but wouldn&#8217;t be more open to it for others.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But then who is surprised?<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Derek sends us a link to the the Westchester and Rockland counties, New York newspaper, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lohud.com\/interactive\/article\/20121223\/NEWS01\/121221011\/Map-Where-gun-permits-your-neighborhood-?nclick_check=1\">The Journal News<\/a> which thought it was important to inform their readers where legal owners live by providing them an interactive map which gives the full name and street address of each legal gun owner for some stupid reason. If I  were a non-gun owner, I&#8217;d be upset, because now the criminals know which houses not to rob and which are less risk. What does the Journal expect? That neighborhoods will run out of town the folks who follow the law and get permits for their guns?<\/p>\n<p>Somehow, I guess they think they&#8217;re providing a public service, but all they&#8217;re doing is showing how they&#8217;re creepy little busy-bodies who don&#8217;t understand the discussion at all and should have nothing to say, because everything they&#8217;re saying is misguided bullshit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I guess NBC&#8217;s David Gregory fancies himself in the vanguard of gun control in the media. &hellip; <a title=\"The media and guns\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=33364\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The media and guns<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guns","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}