{"id":65553,"date":"2016-05-01T12:25:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-01T16:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=65553"},"modified":"2016-05-01T12:26:32","modified_gmt":"2016-05-01T16:26:32","slug":"amy-schumers-gun-control-lies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=65553","title":{"rendered":"Amy Schumer&#8217;s gun control lies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=61177\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-61177\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Schumers-300x212.jpg\" alt=\"Schumers\" width=\"300\" height=\"212\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-61177\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Schumers-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Schumers.jpg 321w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The other day, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2016\/04\/05\/entertainment\/amy-schumer-glamour-body-shaming-feat\/\">plus-size comedienne<\/a> Amy Schumer, cousin to Chuckie, did a little skit on Comedy Channel about gun control. She portrayed a TV host on a home shopping network-style program from which she pretended to sell guns. It begins at about :55 into this video that was posted at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esquire.com\/news-politics\/videos\/a44448\/inside-amy-schumer-gun-control\/\">Esquire<\/a>;<\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color:#000000;width:500px;\">\n<div style=\"padding:4px;width:500;height:300\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/media.mtvnservices.com\/embed\/mgid:arc:video:comedycentral.com:53e9795a-5831-4ba2-ac52-e0ba083a9460\" width=\"500\" height=\"300\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; background-color: white; padding: 4px; margin-top: 4px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;\"><b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cc.com\/shows\/inside-amy-schumer\">Inside Amy Schumer<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>During the skit, she had an exchange with a viewer who claims to be a felon and unable to buy a gun.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A hopeful buyer laments that he can\u2019t get a gun because he has a criminal record riddled with felonies.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Caller, you bite your tongue, you silly goose!&#8221; Schumer\u2019s character says. &#8220;You can absolutely get a gun if you have several felonies, as long as you buy it on the Internet or at a gun show.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you go to a gun show, you can get an unlicensed seller to sell you a gun, no questions asked,&#8221; Dunnigan added<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.politifact.com\/punditfact\/statements\/2016\/apr\/29\/amy-schumer\/fact-checking-amy-schumers-welcome-gun-show\/\">Politfact <\/a>checks Schumer&#8217;s script;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>To be clear: The kind of transaction Schumer\u2019s character describes is illegal. Federal law prohibits felons from getting a gun unless their rights have been formally restored.<\/p>\n<p>Felons can theoretically get around this obstacle, however, by buying guns from unlicensed sellers who are not required to conduct criminal background checks. This is sometimes referred to as the &#8220;gun show loophole,&#8221; even though it refers to all private sales, and not everyone considers it a loophole.<\/p>\n<p>Schumer\u2019s sketch was referring to this aspect of current gun law, said a spokesman for Everytown for Gun Safety, gun control advocacy group Schumer promotes at the end of the sketch.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Politifact says that Schumer was &#8220;Half True&#8221;, but they stop short in their evaluation. If indeed the type of show exists like the one Schumer pretends, in order to ship the gun, they&#8217;d have to ship it to a Federal Firearms licensed dealer, and then that dealer would have to do the regular background checks to which we&#8217;re all subjected when we legally buy firearms. In other words, it&#8217;s already against the law to ship guns directly to a buyer without a background check. <\/p>\n<p>The only solution to the problem that Schumer advocates is the one where everyone turns in their guns to the government. Even that is no real solution. The District of Columbia forbade the ownership of most guns more than 40 years ago, but the <a href=\"http:\/\/mpdc.dc.gov\/page\/district-crime-data-glance\">Metro Police<\/a> still confiscate about 2000 illegal guns every year. <\/p>\n<p>Schumer got a little bit upset when the media called her spot a &#8220;gun control&#8221; message;<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=65554\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-65554\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Schumer-Tweets-300x244.jpg\" alt=\"Schumer Tweets\" width=\"300\" height=\"244\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-65554\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Schumer-Tweets-300x244.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Schumer-Tweets-410x333.jpg 410w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Schumer-Tweets.jpg 503w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Because &#8220;gun safety&#8221; sounds more innocuous than &#8220;gun control&#8221;, but &#8220;gun control&#8221; is exactly what she wants no matter what she calls it. She portrayed a sale that is already illegal under existing laws. But, yeah, we should write more laws.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The other day, plus-size comedienne Amy Schumer, cousin to Chuckie, did a little skit on Comedy &hellip; <a title=\"Amy Schumer&#8217;s gun control lies\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=65553\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Amy Schumer&#8217;s gun control lies<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":61177,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gun-grabbing-fascists"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65553","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=65553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65553\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/61177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}