{"id":85798,"date":"2019-03-25T12:00:39","date_gmt":"2019-03-25T16:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=85798"},"modified":"2019-03-25T12:06:15","modified_gmt":"2019-03-25T16:06:15","slug":"oh-here-we-go-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=85798","title":{"rendered":"Oh, Here We Go Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_85744\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-85744\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-85744\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/lever-gun-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-85744\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lever un<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I&#8217;m still not sure what the hysteria is surrounding gun ownership, but is this going to precede confiscation of kitchen knives and &#8212; well, anything that can be used for self-defense?<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t have the language of this proposed bill in front of me, however, as AW1Ed pointed out when I sent it to him and Dave Hardin, it violates a bodacious number of Amendments to the US Constitution, as outlined in the article at Baldwin&#8217;s site. Due process goes right into the trash with this one.<\/p>\n<p>I do recall that scene in &#8216;Josey Wales&#8217; where the Northerners and Redlegs were confiscating the guns of the Southerners, who objected to it on the grounds that they needed them for hunting squirrels. Of course, that led to a shoot-out, because gun confiscation was going on the South after the Civil War ended.<\/p>\n<p>We must remember that the twit who shot up two mosques in New Zealand was from Australia, where they have enormously strict gun control.\u00a0 It ain&#8217;t the gun that&#8217;s the problem unless you&#8217;re hoplophobic to start with.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with a working brain knows that it is not and never has been the gun that is the problem, any more than a nuclear weapon is the real issue. It is who is holding the gun or has his finger on the &#8220;Launch&#8221; button.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the link to Baldwin&#8217;s article, an open letter to Lindsey Graham and Marco Rubio, both of whom should know better than to sponsor something so obviously out of whack with Constitutional law. I have considered that perhaps they decided to do this, not to confiscate guns, <em>but to stir the pot and find out what happens<\/em> when you do violate those laws with this kind of legislation. Take that into account you read this, but don&#8217;t bang your heads on the wall.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/chuckbaldwinlive.com\/Articles\/tabid\/109\/ID\/3854\/My-Open-Letter-To-Senators-Lindsey-Graham-Marco-Rubio-Et-Al.aspx\">https:\/\/chuckbaldwinlive.com\/Articles\/tabid\/109\/ID\/3854\/My-Open-Letter-To-Senators-Lindsey-Graham-Marco-Rubio-Et-Al.aspx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is a link to Trump&#8217;s response at Real Clear Politics:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/video\/2018\/02\/28\/trump_disagrees_with_mike_pence_on_gun_confiscation_guns_first_due_process_second.html#!\">https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/video\/2018\/02\/28\/trump_disagrees_with_mike_pence_on_gun_confiscation_guns_first_due_process_second.html#!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I will bring up the following: the Branch Davidian episode under Janet Reno; the Ruby Ridge episode; that abysmal business with a not-too-bright CPD cop shooting someone as high as a kite 16 times in the back, before the stoner dropped dead; the farce that was Burge, another CPD cop who tortured people to get confessions out of them even if they hadn&#8217;t done anything; the creepazoid episode of Baltimore cops shooting someone at his own front door; and that St. Valentine&#8217;s Day massacre at the bus barn on Clark Street in Chicago.<\/p>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t just about guns or gun ownership.\u00a0\u00a0It&#8217;s about your rights and mine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m still not sure what the hysteria is surrounding gun ownership, but is this going to &hellip; <a title=\"Oh, Here We Go Again\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=85798\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Oh, Here We Go Again<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":653,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[220,213,82,156],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-floggings-will-continue-until-morale-improves","category-your-tax-dollars-at-work","category-gun-grabbing-fascists","category-guns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85798","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\/653"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=85798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85798\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}