We\u2019ve known for years that many of the \u201cantis\u201d inflated their \u201cgun violence statistics\u201d by including criminals killed by intended victims in self-defense.\u00a0 Now we see it starkly on the national stage as the Michael Bloomberg-funded Mayors Against Illegal Guns goes on a road trip.\u2019<\/p>\n
In Concord, New Hampshire, one of their minions was reading a list of \u201cgun violence\u201d victims and announced the name of the Boston Marathon terrorist bomber who died in a gunfight with police.\u00a0 Calling a terrorist a victim does not go down well in a patriotic state whose motto is \u201cLive Free or Die.\u201d\u00a0 Unpleasantness ensued:\u00a0 http:\/\/pjmedia.com\/tatler\/2013\/06\/19\/bloombergs-real-agenda-self-defense-is-gun-violence\/<\/a><\/p>\n \n The MAIG people are ferociously attacking Republican Kelly Ayotte, US Senator from New Hampshire.\u00a0 She voted \u2013 with good reason, I think \u2013 against the Manchin-Toomey universal background check bill that went down to defeat in Washington last April.\u00a0 Ironic\u2026 a former state attorney general, Ayotte is more credible on criminal justice and public safety issues than virtually anyone else in the United States Senate.\u00a0 But, those on the bus don\u2019t seem to be looking very hard at logic or experience. http:\/\/www.unionleader.com\/article\/20130619\/NEWS07\/130619169<\/a><\/p>\n \n That\u2019s a pretty large vehicle the MAIG crew is running around in, but judging by the intellectual horsepower on board, it\u2019s still lookin\u2019 like a \u201cshort bus\u201d to me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We\u2019ve known for years that many of the \u201cantis\u201d inflated their \u201cgun violence statistics\u201d by including criminals killed by intended victims in self-defense.\u00a0 Now we see it starkly on the national stage as the Michael Bloomberg-funded Mayors Against Illegal Guns goes on a road trip.\u2019 In Concord, New Hampshire, one of their minions was reading […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":6428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2337","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-politics"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2337","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=2337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2337\/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=2337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}