{"id":9109,"date":"2012-12-27T13:22:35","date_gmt":"2012-12-27T13:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/12\/27\/more-gun-links-and-observations\/"},"modified":"2012-12-27T13:22:35","modified_gmt":"2012-12-27T13:22:35","slug":"more-gun-links-and-observations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/12\/27\/more-gun-links-and-observations\/","title":{"rendered":"More Gun Links and Observations"},"content":{"rendered":"

Isn't this a delightful topic?  But it is important that you inform yourself and do your level best to form correct opinions about these matters.<\/span><\/p>\n

Liberals routinely pose the rhetorical question, Why would anyone need a semi-automatic rifle?  You need to have an answer at the ready.  When 'Assault Weapons' Saved Koreatown<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

William Spengler, the miscreant who ambushed NY firefighters<\/a>, killing two of them, was a convicted felon out on parole.  In 1981 he was convicted of killing his grandmother with a hammer.  Two points.  First, if he hadn't been let out he couldn't have committed arson and murder, outside the prison, leastways.  This supports my claim that it is liberal culture, not gun culture, that is the real problem.  Liberals have a casual attitude toward criminal behavior.  Second, as a convicted felon, Spengler illegally possessed the guns he used in his rampage.  Liberals need to reflect on the fact that criminals, by definition, do not respect laws or the rule of law.<\/span><\/p>\n

Liberals shirk the hard task of demanding strict enforcement of existing laws while opting for the easy feel-good call for new laws.  They go hard on the weapon, soft on the wielder.  That piece of stupidity is fallout from their worldview, one that denies free agency and individual responsibility.<\/span><\/p>\n

Dianne Feinstein of San Bancisco is calling for a ban <\/a>on the sale, transfer, importation and manufacturing of, among other things, "semiautomatic rifles, handguns<\/strong>, shotguns that can accept a detachable magazine and have one military characteristic." (emphasis added)  Well, the 1911 model semi-auto .45 caliber pistol has a detachable magazine and has arguably one military characteristic: " The M1911<\/strong> is a single-action<\/a>, semi-automatic<\/a>, magazine-fed, recoil-operated handgun<\/a> chambered for the .45 ACP<\/a> cartridge<\/a>,[1]<\/a><\/sup> which served as the standard-issue side arm<\/a> for the United States armed forces<\/a> from 1911 to 1985. It was widely used in World War I<\/a>, World War II<\/a>, the Korean War<\/a>, and the Vietnam War<\/a>."  (See here<\/a>.)  So is the 1911 model pistol going to be banned?<\/span><\/p>\n

Gun Myths Busted<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Gun Watch<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Gun bans have worked really well in the U.K.<\/a> : "Gun crime has almost doubled since Labour came to power as a culture of  extreme gang violence has taken hold. The latest Government figures show that the total number of firearm offences  in England and Wales has increased from 5,209 in 1998\/99 to 9,865 last  year  -  a rise of 89 per cent." <\/span><\/p>\n

Once again I am proven right: when you go hard on the weapon but soft on the wielder, at the same time stripping decent citizens of their right to the tools of self-defense, then you get more crime.  <\/span><\/p>\n

Finally this<\/a>, from "a leftist who loves guns." <\/span><\/p>\n

More tomorrow.  Oh boy!<\/span><\/p>\n

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Isn't this a delightful topic?  But it is important that you inform yourself and do your level best to form correct opinions about these matters. Liberals routinely pose the rhetorical question, Why would anyone need a semi-automatic rifle?  You need to have an answer at the ready.  When 'Assault Weapons' Saved Koreatown William Spengler, the … Continue reading “More Gun Links and Observations”<\/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-9109","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\/9109","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=9109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}