{"id":75974,"date":"2017-11-16T12:16:35","date_gmt":"2017-11-16T17:16:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=75974"},"modified":"2017-11-16T15:58:56","modified_gmt":"2017-11-16T20:58:56","slug":"fake-news-and-guns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=75974","title":{"rendered":"Fake news and guns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/background-checks-assault-weapons-ban-gain-support-us-183030543.html\">AFP<\/a> reports that Quinnipiac University has polled 1,577 people and that 95% of them support background checks for gun buyers. The problem is that gun buyers are already required to be vetted with background checks.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Sixty-five percent of those surveyed said they supported a nationwide ban on sales of assault weapons while 31 percent said they were opposed.<\/p>\n<p>That was also a new high and up from March 2013, when 54 percent said they supported an assault weapons ban while 41 percent were opposed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That&#8217;s easy to believe because no one really knows what the media or the Leftists are calling &#8220;assault weapons&#8221;. Take this from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/2017\/11\/07\/ar-15-accessories-offer-legal-options-faster-firing-less-reloading-and-even-chain-saw\/840320001\/\">USAToday<\/a>;<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=76003\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-76003\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Chainsaw-2-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-76003\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Chainsaw-2-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Chainsaw-2-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Chainsaw-2-500x281.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Chainsaw-2.jpg 1842w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=76004\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-76004\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Chainsaw-300x93.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"93\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-76004\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Chainsaw-300x93.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Chainsaw-500x156.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Chainsaw.jpg 565w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>And this, from an Ohio affiliate of NBC;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KXL3X4UR5R0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>With all of the scary misinformation, fake news, if you will, who is really surprised about how the public answers polls.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In other findings, 91 percent of those polled said they support a ban on sales of guns to people convicted of violent crimes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>People convicted of felonies are prohibited from buying firearms now &#8211; they have been prohibited since the Gun Control Act of 1968 &#8211; you know, when Congress acted to prohibit people like Lee Harvey Oswald, Sirhan Sirhan and James Earl Ray from getting their hands on guns.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Thirty-four percent of those polled said stricter gun laws would help prevent mass shootings, but 62 percent said shooters would find a way around tighter laws and commit the crimes anyway.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, gun control only affects law-abiding citizens from buying guns to protect themselves from the criminals who will always get guns. But, legislators got to legislate. The media has to create a crisis for the legislators to play to. You&#8217;d think that a responsible news organization would point out these fallacies in the poll, but then I&#8217;d be out of a job, wouldn&#8217;t I?<\/p>\n<p><strong>ADDED<\/strong>: The Giffords have decided that the 2d Amendment isn&#8217;t about muskets, after all. <a href=\"http:\/\/freebeacon.com\/issues\/gabby-giffords-gun-control-group-releases-report-warning-muzzleloaders-firearms\/\">They want gun control<\/a> applied to black powder guns now.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The group views the centuries-old firearms technology, which was rendered obsolete shortly after the Civil War due to advancements in self-contained ammunition cartridges and semi-automatic; self-loading firearms, as dangerous because a silencer can legally be attached to it without the paperwork or tax stamp associated with other firearms silencers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Cue the .50 caliber muzzleloader, which delivers a particularly lethal .50 caliber round,&#8221; the report said. &#8220;This weapon is designed with a built-in device to suppress its sound. If any other firearm were built with such a device, it would be subject to the NFA as a silencer. But since this device is designed to suppress the sound of something that is exempt from federal firearms laws, it is not considered a silencer and not subject to the NFA. In fact, it is not subject to any laws at all and can be bought online.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The group called on Congress to take action and pass new laws restricting muzzleloaders and the other products outlined in the report.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>When was the last time a muzzleloader was used in a crime? In the last 150 years, I mean.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFP reports that Quinnipiac University has polled 1,577 people and that 95% of them support background &hellip; <a title=\"Fake news and guns\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=75974\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Fake news and guns<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":76003,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75974","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\/75974","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=75974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75974\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/76003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}