{"id":3553,"date":"2019-10-12T11:52:01","date_gmt":"2019-10-12T11:52:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2019\/10\/12\/leftists-regularly-abuse-language-gun-buy-back\/"},"modified":"2019-10-12T11:52:01","modified_gmt":"2019-10-12T11:52:01","slug":"leftists-regularly-abuse-language-gun-buy-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2019\/10\/12\/leftists-regularly-abuse-language-gun-buy-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Leftists Regularly Abuse Language: &#8216;Gun Buy Back&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">The expression &#39;gun buy-back&#39; as used by Kamala Harris and other leftists makes no sense. If I sell you something, I am free to attempt to buy it back from you, and you are free to refuse to sell it to me. But I didn&#39;t buy my guns from the government, but from reputable gun dealers in compliance with all the Federal and state and local regulations. So the government can&#39;t buy them back from me. That is ruled out by the very sense of &#39;gun buy back.&#39;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Furthermore, if the dealer wants to buy b<span class=\"text_exposed_show\">ack my gun, I am free to say No. But I am not free (in the same sense) to say No to the government when they try to confiscate my firearms.&#0160;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_show\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">&#39;Federal gun buy-back&#39; is an obfuscatory phrase designed to confuse and trick the populace. In plain English, it amounts to COERCIVE CONFISCATION with monetary compensation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">When I call leftists moral scum, part of what I mean is that they misuse language to trick and confuse people. Decent folk don&#39;t do that. They say what they mean, and they mean what they say.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Leftists are stealth ideologues. They don&#39;t say what they mean, and what they mean is not what they say.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">If they were intellectually honest, that would be one fewer reason for people to buy guns.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The expression &#39;gun buy-back&#39; as used by Kamala Harris and other leftists makes no sense. If I sell you something, I am free to attempt to buy it back from you, and you are free to refuse to sell it to me. But I didn&#39;t buy my guns from the government, but from reputable gun &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2019\/10\/12\/leftists-regularly-abuse-language-gun-buy-back\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Leftists Regularly Abuse Language: &#8216;Gun Buy Back&#8217;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[112,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alcohol-tobacco-and-firearms","category-language-matters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3553\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}