{"id":57849,"date":"2015-01-24T12:44:44","date_gmt":"2015-01-24T17:44:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=57849"},"modified":"2015-01-24T12:44:44","modified_gmt":"2015-01-24T17:44:44","slug":"vermont-democrat-opposes-more-background-checks-for-gun-ownership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=57849","title":{"rendered":"Vermont Democrat opposes more background checks for gun ownership"},"content":{"rendered":"

GruntSgt sends us a link from WatchdogVermont<\/a> which reports that one Democrat state senator in Vermont, Dick Sears, D-Bennington, figures that Vermont has the proper amount of background checks for legal gun owners that they don’t need anymore;<\/p>\n

\u201cIf I want to give a neighbor my gun, and I\u2019m not hunting anymore, I shouldn\u2019t have to go to a gun shop in order to do a background check on my neighbor, who I\u2019ve known for 30 years. And if I give my gun to some felon, that\u2019s my own fault, and I can already be held accountable for that under various laws in civil court,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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\u201cA lot of people don\u2019t realize there\u2019s a section in the Vermont Constitution regarding the ownership of firearms that, as I read it, is much more liberal towards the gun owner than the U.S. Constitution,\u201d Sears said.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople say, \u2018It\u2019s a violation of the Second Amendment.\u2019 I think the 16th Article of the Vermont Constitution also needs to be read in any of these decisions we make.\u201d<\/p>\n

The article to which Sears refers is unambiguous: \u201cThe people have a right to bear arms for the defense of themselves and the State.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The article continues that even though Vermont has one of the highest rates of gun ownership in the country, it also has one of the lowest violent crime rates. That 42% of households contain firearms while only 115 people out of a hundred thousand people are victims of crime – about half of the national average.<\/p>\n

Of course, the gun grabbers don’t see it that way. They still want to close that so-called “gun show loop hole” and forbid folks from private sales without background checks although less than 1% of criminals admit that’s how they came into possession of the firearms they used in crimes. And that’s why gun grabber Michael Bloomberg is pumping tens of millions of dollars into state campaigns to rein in gun ownership by law abiding Americans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

GruntSgt sends us a link from WatchdogVermont which reports that one Democrat state senator in Vermont, … Vermont Democrat opposes more background checks for gun ownership<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40472,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-guns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57849","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=57849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57849\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/40472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}