{"id":6933,"date":"2015-10-12T12:43:31","date_gmt":"2015-10-12T12:43:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/10\/12\/why-we-cant-have-nice-things-like-gun-control\/"},"modified":"2015-10-12T12:43:31","modified_gmt":"2015-10-12T12:43:31","slug":"why-we-cant-have-nice-things-like-gun-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/10\/12\/why-we-cant-have-nice-things-like-gun-control\/","title":{"rendered":"Why We Can’t Have Nice Things Like Gun Control"},"content":{"rendered":"

That's the silly title of an article in The Nation<\/em>.  The title is enough for me.  It implies that we don't have gun control, when in fact we have a lot of it.  <\/span><\/p>\n

And nobody is against it.  Everybody wants there to be  laws regulating the manufacture, sale, importation, transportation, use, etc., of guns.  Does anyone, apart from felons, think that felons should be permitted to purchase guns?  So why do liberals routinely characterize conservatives as against gun control?  Because they are mendacious.  It is for  the same reason that they label conservatives as anti-government.  Conservatives stand for limited<\/em> government, whence it follows that they are for<\/em> government.  This is a simple inference that even a liberal shallow-pate should be able to process.  So why do  liberals call conservatives anti-government? Because they are mendacious<\/em>: they are not  interested in civil debate, but in winning at all costs by any means.  And they know that the smear is effective with their benighted audience. <\/span><\/p>\n

With respect to both government and gun control, the question is not whether<\/em> but how much<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n

And with respect to both one increasingly gets the impression that for liberals there cannot be too much. Perhaps here is the reason why liberals never stop calling for gun control when we manifestly have<\/em> gun control: for them 'gun control' means total<\/em> gun control just as for them 'government' means totalitarian<\/em> government. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

That's the silly title of an article in The Nation.  The title is enough for me.  It implies that we don't have gun control, when in fact we have a lot of it.   And nobody is against it.  Everybody wants there to be  laws regulating the manufacture, sale, importation, transportation, use, etc., of guns. … Continue reading “Why We Can’t Have Nice Things Like Gun Control”<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alcohol-tobacco-and-firearms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6933","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=6933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6933\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}