{"id":9095,"date":"2013-01-02T15:33:30","date_gmt":"2013-01-02T15:33:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/01\/02\/gun-control-when-is-enough-enough\/"},"modified":"2013-01-02T15:33:30","modified_gmt":"2013-01-02T15:33:30","slug":"gun-control-when-is-enough-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/01\/02\/gun-control-when-is-enough-enough\/","title":{"rendered":"Gun Control: When is Enough Enough?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Suppose a federal ban on the manufacture, sale, transfer, etc. of semi-automatic rifles is enacted in the coming year.  And then suppose another mass shooting occurs.  Will liberals call for further gun restrictions?  Of course.  You can be sure that they will exploit the next mass shooting just as they exploited Sandy Hook. Suppose they call for, and get, an outlawing of all semi-autos, including pistols.  Will they be satisfied with that?  Of course not.  For when the next mass shooting occurs, they will again blame the weapon, not the wielder, and take the next step, perhaps the banning of all rifles, shotguns, and handguns.  And so on.<\/span><\/p>\n

Just as, for a liberal, one cannot be too liberal, for a liberal, there cannot be too much gun control.   They will exploit any mass shooting to further erode gun rights.  This is why there must not be any further concessions. We have enough gun control laws.  But for a liberal enough is never enough.<\/span><\/p>\n

The following from Victor Davis Hanson<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n

A journalist, Donald Kaul, in the Des Moines Register<\/em> <\/span>offers us a three-step, presto!<\/em> plan<\/span><\/a> to stop school shootings:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Repeal the Second Amendment, the part about guns anyway. It\u2019s badly written, confusing and more trouble than it\u2019s worth. \u2026 Declare the NRA a terrorist organization and make membership illegal. Hey! We did it to the Communist Party, and the NRA has led to the deaths of more of us than American Commies ever did. \u2026Then I would tie Mitch McConnell and John Boehner, our esteemed Republican leaders, to the back of a Chevy pickup truck and drag them around a parking lot until they saw the light on gun control.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Note the new ease with which the liberal mind calls for trashing the Constitution, outlawing those whom they don\u2019t like (reminiscent of <\/span>\u201cpunish our enemies\u201d<\/span><\/a>?), and killing those politicians with whom they don\u2019t agree (we are back to Bush Derangement Syndrome, when novels, movies, and op-eds dreamed of <\/span>the president\u2019s assassination<\/span><\/a>.)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

What would be the Register<\/em>\u2019s reaction should a conservative opponent of abortion dare write, \u201cRepeal the First Amendment; ban Planned Parenthood as a terrorist organization; and drag Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi from a truck\u201d? If an idiot were to write that trash, I doubt the Washington Times<\/em> or Wall Street Journal<\/em> would print such sick calls for overturning the Constitution and committing violence against public officials.<\/span><\/p>\n

Not all liberals are as extreme as Kaul.  But the liberal tendency is ever Leftward.  Which is another reason why we need guns.  It is not about hunting.  Nor is it about plinking at targets for fun.  It is  about self-defense against the criminal element and any other group that threatens us with violence.<\/span><\/p>\n

Here<\/a> is my message to liberal gun-grabbers.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Suppose a federal ban on the manufacture, sale, transfer, etc. of semi-automatic rifles is enacted in the coming year.  And then suppose another mass shooting occurs.  Will liberals call for further gun restrictions?  Of course.  You can be sure that they will exploit the next mass shooting just as they exploited Sandy Hook. Suppose they call … Continue reading “Gun Control: When is Enough Enough?”<\/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-9095","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\/9095","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=9095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9095\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}