{"id":2249,"date":"2013-04-07T23:48:41","date_gmt":"2013-04-08T03:48:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=2249"},"modified":"2013-04-07T23:48:41","modified_gmt":"2013-04-08T03:48:41","slug":"the-insidious-underside-of-reasonable-common-sense-universal-background-checks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/the-insidious-underside-of-reasonable-common-sense-universal-background-checks\/","title":{"rendered":"THE INSIDIOUS UNDERSIDE OF \u201cREASONABLE COMMON SENSE UNIVERSAL BACKGROUND CHECKS\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

In recent days, we\u2019ve seen a senior proponent of the full capacity magazine ban reveal that she didn\u2019t have a clue how either magazines or stripper clips worked, and neither apparently did her research assistants<\/a>.
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\nIt was a moment of absolutely monumental cluelessness.\u00a0 It\u2019s as if a denizen of Capitol Hill was pushing legislation to limit how much fuel you could have in your vehicle\u2019s tank, and to limit your family car to low speed\u2026and you discovered that the legislator had never driven an automobile and didn\u2019t know a steering wheel from a spare tire. Not long before that gaffe, we saw Governor Cuomo push through the SAFE Act in New York State, not only limiting the public to seven cartridges in the magazine but crafting the legislation so sloppily that he and his minions didn\u2019t realize they had written it to apply to police as well. This sort of thing reflects a level of ignorance on a par with the politician who, last year, made it clear he thought an island would tip over if too many people were located on one side of it,
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\nor the candidate last year who declared that women\u2019s bodies had some magic mechanism that kept them from getting pregnant if they were raped.
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Such things should be taught in civics classes, as a warning to the electorate.<\/p>\n

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In the wake of it all, thankfully, more middle-of-the-road citizens are re-examining the whole \u201cassault weapons\/high capacity magazines\u201d propaganda blitz, and seeing the mendacity and futility hidden therein.\u00a0 Yet pundits still tell us that the shining hope of the gun prohibitionists is \u201creasonable, common sense universal background checks.\u201d\u00a0 Here, stalwart gun owners\u2019 civil rights activist David Kopel explains all the bad stuff that hides in the proposed legislation: National Review<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In recent days, we\u2019ve seen a senior proponent of the full capacity magazine ban reveal that she didn\u2019t have a clue how either magazines or stripper clips worked, and neither apparently did her research assistants. It was a moment of absolutely monumental cluelessness.\u00a0 It\u2019s as if a denizen of Capitol Hill was pushing legislation to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":6428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,10],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2249","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-firearm-owners-civil-rights","8":"category-politics"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2249","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=2249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2249\/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=2249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}