{"id":66343,"date":"2016-06-15T11:19:12","date_gmt":"2016-06-15T15:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=66343"},"modified":"2016-06-15T11:19:32","modified_gmt":"2016-06-15T15:19:32","slug":"the-politics-of-guns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=66343","title":{"rendered":"The politics of guns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Claymore sends us a link to <a href=\"http:\/\/twitchy.com\/gregp-3534\/2016\/06\/15\/former-marine-corps-officer-and-dem-congressman-misleads-on-automatic-rifles\/?utm_content=buffer8cd04&#038;utm_medium=social&#038;utm_source=facebook.com&#038;utm_campaign=buffer\">Twitchy<\/a> that reports Democrat Congressman Seth Moulton from Massachusetts and a former Marine with four tours of the Iraq War according to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Seth_Moulton\">Wiki<\/a> has decided that Americans shouldn&#8217;t own &#8220;weapons of war&#8221; like he carried in the Marine Corps. Of course, the weapons of war that I own only look like the gun he carried in Iraq &#8211; it isn&#8217;t fully automatic;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A look at tomorrow&#39;s front page&#8230;<br \/>Hey <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NRA\">@NRA<\/a>, Marine says &quot;NO CIVILIAN SHOULD OWN THIS GUN&quot; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dDrxtVLUgs\">https:\/\/t.co\/dDrxtVLUgs<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1cngdNzvNu\">pic.twitter.com\/1cngdNzvNu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; New York Daily News (@NYDailyNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NYDailyNews\/status\/742889454671630336\">June 15, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Aside from my AR-style rifles, I also own several 1911s &#8211; also weapons of war &#8211; one of which even has arms room time since I bought it from a Texas veteran who brought it back from the Korean War. I happen to like guns, mostly because I spent most of my adult life carrying one everywhere I went. When I feel anxious, something about holding that pistol grip makes me feel better. I&#8217;ve never committed a crime with any of my guns, none of those guns has ever had another human in it&#8217;s sights.<\/p>\n<p>Moulton has a problem saying things that aren&#8217;t true. In March, in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/metro\/2016\/03\/23\/congressman-seth-moulton-compares-rise-donald-trump-election-hitler\/5nbZpv2d4B25N2A3hgOldP\/story.html\">Boston Globe<\/a>, he compared the rise of Donald Trump to the rise of Hitler;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>He said voters should read up on how the German people elected Hitler in the 1930s, to gain a better understanding of how an educated society \u201ccan elect a demagogue.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not saying that Donald Trump is necessarily Hitler,\u201d Moulton said. \u201cI\u2019m not saying that.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But he is saying that AR-style rifles are &#8220;weapons of war&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>In the pages of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/politics\/news\/why-its-time-to-repeal-the-second-amendment-right-bear-arms-20160613\">Rolling Stone<\/a>, David S. Cohen, who claims to be a constitutional law professor says that it&#8217;s time to repeal the Second Amendment because &#8220;sometimes we just have to acknowledge that the Founders and the Constitution are wrong.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Second Amendment needs to be repealed because it is outdated, a threat to liberty and a suicide pact. When the Second Amendment was adopted in 1791, there were no weapons remotely like the AR-15 assault rifle and many of the advances of modern weaponry were long from being invented or popularized.<\/p>\n<p>Sure, the Founders knew that the world evolved and that technology changed, but the weapons of today that are easily accessible are vastly different than anything that existed in 1791. When the Second Amendment was written, the Founders didn&#8217;t have to weigh the risks of one man killing 49 and injuring 53 all by himself. Now we do, and the risk-benefit analysis of 1791 is flatly irrelevant to the risk-benefit analysis of today.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, if they think the founders were wrong, they should just go ahead and try to repeal the Second Amendment. Quit yapping about it and just do it.<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/news_and_politics\/jurisprudence\/2016\/06\/how_the_nra_perverted_the_meaning_of_the_2nd_amendment.html\">Slate<\/a>, Dahlia Lithwick says that we should repeal the Second Amendment &#8220;for the children&#8221; after a brief discussion with her son.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Freedom in America also means that we are free to wake up every morning hoping that it\u2019s not our kid who gets shot with a weapon of war, and free to wake up hoping it\u2019s not our kid who shoots someone, and free to wake up praying it\u2019s not our kid, or our spouse, or our neighbor who shoots herself. In this freest country on earth, we also happen to be in a perpetual hostage situation, in which one false move\u2014or merely the choice to go to class, or to dance with friends\u2014means you may wind up dead.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course, Ms. Lithwick won&#8217;t admit that the reason she enjoys her freedom is because of braver people than she who do own guns and remove criminals from her path through life everyday.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s funny how these people are quick to blame the NRA and it&#8217;s millions of American members for what is clearly a threat from radical Islamists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Claymore sends us a link to Twitchy that reports Democrat Congressman Seth Moulton from Massachusetts and &hellip; <a title=\"The politics of guns\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=66343\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The politics of 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":[82,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gun-grabbing-fascists","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66343","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=66343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}