{"id":5180,"date":"2018-11-07T23:34:05","date_gmt":"2018-11-08T04:34:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=5180"},"modified":"2018-11-07T23:41:58","modified_gmt":"2018-11-08T04:41:58","slug":"5180-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/5180-2\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>AFTER THE MID-TERMS<\/h1>\n<p>The party with the anti-gun platform won the House, but at least the ostensibly pro-gun owner party solidified their control of the Senate.\u00a0 On the state levels, the prohibitionists barely lost their chance to put an extreme anti-gunner into the Governor\u2019s office in Florida, which would have been a major \u201cscalp on their belt.\u201d<a href=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Walking-Dead.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-5179\" src=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Walking-Dead-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Walking-Dead-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Walking-Dead-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Walking-Dead.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nancy Pelosi stated that \u201cgun control\u201d would be a number one priority in the House if she and her colleagues won.\u00a0 They\u2019ve won there, and we need to be ready to fight some super-strict legislation we can expect to emanate from those quarters, no matter who is named Speaker of the House.\u00a0 Damn shame the Republicans didn\u2019t push for national concealed carry when they had the chance, as the Republican majority had promised to do after the 2016 election.<\/p>\n<p>In Washington state, a Draconian gun ban passed, which I suspect will send residents there rushing to their local gun shop to exercise their last chance to purchase a semi-automatic sporting rifle\u2026a chance that will be foreclosed in just a few weeks.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/libertyparkpress.com\/still-called-safety-measure-i-1639-passes-activists-plan-moves\/\">https:\/\/libertyparkpress.com\/still-called-safety-measure-i-1639-passes-activists-plan-moves\/<\/a> .<\/p>\n<p>On the justice system front, it\u2019s interesting to see what the re-election results were for those who voted against confirming Brett Kavanaugh as a Justice of SCOTUS: <a href=\"https:\/\/townhall.com\/tipsheet\/mattvespa\/2018\/11\/06\/butchers-bill-with-mccaskill-gone-red-state-democrats-have-been-virtually-wipe-n2535424\">https:\/\/townhall.com\/tipsheet\/mattvespa\/2018\/11\/06\/butchers-bill-with-mccaskill-gone-red-state-democrats-have-been-virtually-wipe-n2535424<\/a> .\u00a0 Apparently, \u201cguilty until proven innocent\u201d does not play as well with the voting public as some social justice warriors thought it would.<\/p>\n<p>There are \u201cinteresting times\u201d to come. 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