{"id":72805,"date":"2017-06-16T10:33:58","date_gmt":"2017-06-16T14:33:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=72805"},"modified":"2017-06-16T13:04:29","modified_gmt":"2017-06-16T17:04:29","slug":"sorry-but-it-is-about-politics-not-guns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=72805","title":{"rendered":"Sorry, but it is about politics, not guns"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Peter Dreier writes at Prospect.org that “The Virginia Shooting Isn’t About Bernie. It\u2019s About the Right\u2019s Embrace of Guns.<\/a>” He tries to convince us that James Hodgkinson’s shooting rampage had nothing to do with politics and everything to do with lax gun laws. Yeah, well, Jeremy Joseph Christian<\/a>, another Sanders supporter in Portland, Oregon, killed more people in his attack late last month and he used a knife, not a gun. And then there was Eric Clanton<\/a> a community college professor who assaulted a Trump supporter in San Francisco – not with a gun but with a padlock in sock.<\/p>\n

And, oh, by the way, there’s James Devine, a Democrat<\/a> in New Jersey who is calling for an open season on Republicans.<\/p>\n

A longtime Democratic operative from Union County has responded to the Wednesday shooting of a congressman by calling for a \u201chunt\u201d of Republicans.<\/p>\n

James Devine posted several messages on Facebook and Twitter following the Alexandra, Virginia, shooting of U.S. Rep. Steve Scalise and several others by a gunman with a history of violence and of making online rantings against Republican officials and their policies.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That might not turn out the way he imagines.<\/p>\n

Dreier scribbles;<\/p>\n

the Trump administration has taken steps to make it easier for both fugitives and the mentally ill to buy guns. Congressional Republicans have introduced a bill to allow people without permits or training to carry firearms across state lines (which they call \u201cconcealed carry reciprocity\u201d).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, no. The Trump administration swept away a policy that took guns away from veterans without due process if they didn’t have the mental capacity to manage their finances. Name another right that it’s perfectly acceptable for the government to ignore without a legal reason to do so. <\/p>\n

Dreier might like concealed carry reciprocity, since it provides another layer of background checks which even the Virginia governor can appreciate.<\/p>\n

Dreier blames the AR-style rifle for the shooting (you know, even though the rifle isn’t a AR style rifle);<\/p>\n

Hodgkinson apparently had a permit for the AR-15 assault rifle he used on Wednesday. According to the NRA, the AR-15 is America\u2019s most popular rifle, with an estimated nine million in circulation in this country. The NRA claims that they are used safely by millions of people for sport. But it is also the weapon used in many mass shootings. It accommodates high-capacity magazines that can fire off 100 rounds or more within minutes. That\u2019s clearly a quasi-military weapon, not a recreational tool. These kind of assault rifles were banned from 1994 to 2004 under federal law, before the NRA used its political clout to allow the ban to expire. <\/p>\n

In contrast to NRA claims, most gun-related deaths are committed by people who purchase their weapons legally. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Most gun-related deaths are suicides, too, did you forget that, Pete?<\/p>\n

I haven’t heard any Republicans calling for a preemptive strike on Democrats, but Democrats seem more than eager for another civil war. It has everything to do with politics and the fact that they want more gun control only reinforces the reason that there is a Second Amendment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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