{"id":8941,"date":"2013-03-05T05:21:07","date_gmt":"2013-03-05T05:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/03\/05\/making-sure-that-it-never-happens-again\/"},"modified":"2013-03-05T05:21:07","modified_gmt":"2013-03-05T05:21:07","slug":"making-sure-that-it-never-happens-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/03\/05\/making-sure-that-it-never-happens-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Making Sure That It Never Happens Again"},"content":{"rendered":"

From The Hill<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n

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President Obama on Sunday said he would make gun control a priority in his new term, pledging to put his \u201cfull weight\u201d behind passing new restrictions on firearms in 2013.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI'm going to be putting forward a package and I'm going to be putting my full weight behind it,\u201d Obama said in an interview aired on NBC\u2019s \u201cMeet the Press.\u201d \u201cI'm going to be making an argument to the American people about why this is important and why we have to do everything we can to make sure that something like what happened at Sandy Hook Elementary does not happen again.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Question: Does any clear-thinking person  seriously believe that steps can be taken to prevent such events from ever<\/em> happening again? Of course not.  Then why the empty utopian rhetoric? The "everything we can" is equally silly.  There is a way to severely reduce the likelihood of another Sandy Hook type shooting.  And that is to to secure every school like a prison.  That would be much more effective that any tightening of gun laws.  So if we must do "everything we can," then we ought to secure every school, every church, every college campus, etc. like a prison or a military installation.<\/span><\/p>\n

What comes out of Obama's mouth is just feel-good liberal-left blather, thoughtless verbiage, without contact with facts or evidence, and without consequence for the solution of any real problem.  The only real consequence is a further erosion of liberty and an expansion of the state. <\/span><\/p>\n

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From The Hill: President Obama on Sunday said he would make gun control a priority in his new term, pledging to put his \u201cfull weight\u201d behind passing new restrictions on firearms in 2013. \u201cI'm going to be putting forward a package and I'm going to be putting my full weight behind it,\u201d Obama said in … Continue reading “Making Sure That It Never Happens Again”<\/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":[112,163],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alcohol-tobacco-and-firearms","category-leftism-and-political-correctness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8941","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=8941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8941\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}