{"id":1167,"date":"2011-01-28T17:39:50","date_gmt":"2011-01-28T21:39:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=1167"},"modified":"2011-01-28T17:39:50","modified_gmt":"2011-01-28T21:39:50","slug":"is-the-other-shoe-about-to-drop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/is-the-other-shoe-about-to-drop\/","title":{"rendered":"IS THE OTHER SHOE ABOUT TO DROP?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Obama was vehemently anti-gun before he entered the White House. He has been conspicuously silent on the issue since, for obvious reasons. Bill Clinton himself made it clear that the Assault Weapons Ban came back to bite the Democratic Party hard in the subsequent election, and Al Gore\u2019s position on the issue may well have cost him the election. Why NOT let it drop? Barack Obama has many very pressing issues, and a man as smart as he SHOULDN\u2019T be wasting time on hollow, feel-good legislation while he sits in the Oval Office.<\/p>\n<p>However, we\u2019re now ominously told that a statement on \u201cgun control\u201d is forthcoming from POTUS: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2011\/01\/26\/david-axelrod-obama-gun-control-debate_n_814596.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2011\/01\/26\/david-axelrod-obama-gun-control-debate_n_814596.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The \u201cusual suspects\u201d have predictably already introduced legislation you may find even more Draconian than the Clinton Assault Weapons Ban, which honest people seem to agree did absolutely nothing to reduce crime in its ten years of existence. Carolyn McCarthy has introduced <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scribd.com\/doc\/46829349\/Carolyn-McCarthy-High-Capacity-Magazine-Bill\" target=\"_blank\"> this bill <\/a>in the House of Representatives, and Frank Lautenberg has introduced the following in the Senate:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/lautenberg.senate.gov\/assets\/highcapacity.pdf\">Large Capacity Ammunition Feeding Device Act<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/lautenberg.senate.gov\/assets\/terrorgap.pdf\">Denying Firearms and Explosives to Dangerous Criminals Act <\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/lautenberg.senate.gov\/assets\/gunshow.pdf\">Gun Show Background Check Act<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lautenberg.senate.gov\/assets\/highcapacity.pdf\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>D\u00e9j\u00e0 vu, all over again.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019ll use the 30+-round magazine in the gun of the Tucson killer as the pivot point of their attack on your rights to own firearms of a kind that have been part of America since the 19<sup>th<\/sup> Century.<\/p>\n<p>The sort of people who fear \u201chigh capacity magazines\u201d are the ones who have no plan but to lie down and play dead \u2013 or die \u2013 if they\u2019re ever in the presence of someone like mass-murderer Jared Loughner in Tucson earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>But the people who appreciate that sort of technology are the ones who are determined enough to fight back against such monsters, even if they have to stand alone. People such as <a href=\"http:\/\/commongunsense.net\/2011\/01\/condoleezza-rice-and-guns-in-the-civil-rights-movement\/\" target=\"_blank\">Condoleezza Rice\u2019s dad<\/a>, who sat alone on the front porch of the family home with a gun in his lap to ward off sheet-head racists back in the days of a gun-owning Republican named Martin Luther King.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll have more to say about the magazine capacity matter in days to come\u2026but I\u2019d like to hear what YOU folks think.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Obama was vehemently anti-gun before he entered the White House. He has been conspicuously silent on the issue since, for obvious reasons. Bill Clinton himself made it clear that the Assault Weapons Ban came back to bite the Democratic Party hard in the subsequent election, and Al Gore\u2019s position on the issue may well [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":6428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1167","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-firearm-owners-civil-rights"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1167\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}