Late last January, a Fox commentator noted that CNN had turned into a 24\/7 \u201cgun control\u201d telethon. And now, on the evening of April 9, I sit here watching what CNN has called a two-day special devoted to exactly that topic.<\/p>\n
It is focusing on background checks.\u00a0 No surprise: the gun prohibition movement nationwide has lasered in on the exact same thing. They\u2019ve been doing it for a while, ever since they realized that both the \u201cassault weapon ban\u201d and the \u201chigh capacity magazine ban\u201d are being increasingly recognized as illogical and meaningless\u2026as, indeed, they were proven to be the last time they were enacted.<\/p>\n
The \u201copening shot\u201d of the \u201ctwo-day blast\u201d (puns intended) centered on Gabby Giffords and her husband, Mark Kelly.\u00a0 Before she was shot by psycho Jared Loughner, Rep. Giffords was a conservative Democrat who staunchly supported gun owners\u2019 civil rights.\u00a0 She owned a Glock 19 pistol exactly like the one Loughner used, and to their credit, her husband admitted that.\u00a0 He also admitted that he and his wife owned a slightly larger capacity version of the same gun, the Glock 17, which he fired obligingly at a backyard plinking range for the CNN cameras.<\/p>\n
The Glock 19 pistol holds 15 rounds in its standard magazine, and the Glock 17 contains 17 rounds when its standard magazine is full.\u00a0 Each will take one more round in the firing chamber when fully loaded. Kelly made a big point of the fact that Loughner had used extended 33-round magazines in the weapon he used in the massacre.<\/p>\n
Interesting, that, though Giffords and Kelly have now become icons in the \u201cgun control\u201d movement that wants to limit everyone to 10-round magazines (and New Yorkers to only 7), neither seems to have even symbolically given up their standard capacity magazines <\/span>\u201cevil high capacity assault magazine clips.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cSean AZ\u201d commented in the last blog entry below this one that it looked to him as if the backstop Kelly was shooting at on CNN was unsafe. And \u00a0in a previous entry here I commented on the disingenuous hypocrisy Kelly demonstrated recently in his purchase of a \u201chigh capacity assault rifle,\u201d to wit the SIG version of an AR15.\u00a0 (The gun shop where he bought it refused to complete the transfer. When I am next in Tucson, I want to shake the hand of the gun shop owner who made that decision.)<\/p>\n So far in this particular stage of the \u201cwe gotta have universal background checks\u201d CNN marathon, it appears that folks think we gun people want it to be legal for criminals to buy guns on the street, or have their girlfriends buy guns for them. Nothing could be further from the truth. That\u2019s already against the law, and has been for a very long time, and it\u2019s us gun people who rage against the Obama\/Holder Justice Department\u2019s failure to prosecute more than a token number of criminals who do so.\u00a0 So far, even Anderson Cooper, the point man on this particular CNN blitz, doesn\u2019t seem to be aware of the quicksand of creating felons out of a husband who leaves a gun at home with his wife, or parents who bequeaths a family heirloom gun to heirs, which lies in some of the currently suggested \u201cbackground check\u201d legislation passes. (Please see the blog entry below this one.)<\/p>\n To Cooper\u2019s credit, while he\u2019s obviously not \u201cpro-gun,\u201d he\u2019s trying to show both sides like a professional journalist, in stark contrast to his fellow CNN denizen, Piers Morgan. Having been forced out of his journalism career in England by a hoax he perpetrated as a journalist, and a phone-tapping scandal, Morgan gets about half the ratings Anderson does. Anderson has already, honestly, brought out the fact that Loughner PASSED a background check when he bought the gun he later used that terrible day in Tucson.<\/p>\n My heart goes out to Gabby Giffords. It pains me to see what the brain damage inflicted on her by a monster has done. I can only wish she\u2019d been carrying her own Glock 19 on that day, and seen the evil little monster in time to stop him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Late last January, a Fox commentator noted that CNN had turned into a 24\/7 \u201cgun control\u201d telethon. And now, on the evening of April 9, I sit here watching what CNN has called a two-day special devoted to exactly that topic. It is focusing on background checks.\u00a0 No surprise: the gun prohibition movement nationwide has […]<\/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-2257","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\/2257","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=2257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2257\/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=2257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}