{"id":34178,"date":"2013-02-15T09:07:04","date_gmt":"2013-02-15T13:07:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=34178"},"modified":"2013-02-15T09:07:04","modified_gmt":"2013-02-15T13:07:04","slug":"ca-police-chief-guns-are-not-defensive-weapons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=34178","title":{"rendered":"CA police chief: guns are not defensive weapons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LanceCooley sends us a link to bizarre story in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theblaze.com\/stories\/2013\/02\/14\/california-police-chief-a-gun-is-not-a-defensive-weapon-that-is-a-myth\/\">The Blaze<\/a> about Emeryville, Calif. Police Chief Ken James who claims that guns are not defensive weapons, so he wants &#8220;reasonable&#8221; gun control.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cOne issue that always boggles my mind is that the idea that a gun is a defensive weapon,\u201d he said. \u201cThat is a myth. A gun is not a defensive weapon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He was speaking during a press conference promoting strict gun laws in California. James is also the chairman of the Police Chief Association\u2019s Firearms Committee.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA gun is an offensive weapon used to intimidate and show power,\u201d James added. \u201cPolice officers don\u2019t carry a gun as a defensive weapon to defend themselves or their other officers. They carry a gun to be able to do their job in a safe and effective manner and face any oppositions we may come upon.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A good example of a failed public school education. So, is he saying that the police are aggressively enforcing the law with their side arms? the police don&#8217;t draw their weapons unless they&#8217;re threatened, and citizens are required by law to only use their weapons when they&#8217;re threatened &#8211; so WTF is Chief James talking about? I don&#8217;t think he knows either. Clearly he&#8217;s trying to pursue a political agenda and justify grabbing citizens&#8217; guns to himself. Because he can&#8217;t think the rest of us are paying attention to his ignorant ass.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LanceCooley sends us a link to bizarre story in The Blaze about Emeryville, Calif. Police Chief &hellip; <a title=\"CA police chief: guns are not defensive weapons\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=34178\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">CA police chief: guns are not defensive weapons<\/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":[82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gun-grabbing-fascists"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34178","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=34178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}