{"id":2478,"date":"2009-01-20T19:20:31","date_gmt":"2009-01-21T03:20:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2009\/01\/20\/gun-control-2009\/"},"modified":"2009-01-21T09:03:03","modified_gmt":"2009-01-21T17:03:03","slug":"gun-control-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2009\/01\/20\/gun-control-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"Gun Control 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gun control looms as a major domestic issue, now that President Barack Obama has assumed the position. The President has been openly against private gun ownership during his entire political career. His <a href=\"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2008\/12\/13\/obamas-empty-second-amendment-promises\/\">choice of anti-gunners<\/a> <strong>Rahm Emanuel<\/strong>, <strong>Hillary Clinton<\/strong>, <strong>Tom Daschle<\/strong> and (worst of all) <strong>Eric Holder<\/strong> to become cabinet-level officials adds credence to the possibility that guns are a target (seems backwards, doesn&#8217;t it?) of the new administration.<\/p>\n<p>Most of us, however, think that &#8220;gun control,&#8221; as a national issue, is less about <strong>guns <\/strong>and more about <strong>control<\/strong>. Leftists have been relentless in trying to disarm Americans, not only here in the USA, but everywhere in the world where socialism and totalitarianism thrive. The United Nations has been especially antagonistic toward guns with constant pressure to sign international accords to disarm.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re bracing ourselves for the perfect storm against the Second Amendment. <\/p>\n<p>I had to work today, otherwise I might have been tempted to head to the range as <a href=\"http:\/\/thelibertysphere.blogspot.com\/2009\/01\/join-me-at-firing-range.html\">Liberty Sphere<\/a> suggested, to practice the kind of <strong>gun control you can believe in<\/strong> . . .<\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/two-plus-one.jpg' title='two-plus-one.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/two-plus-one.thumbnail.jpg' alt='two-plus-one.jpg' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Two to the heart, one to the head silhouette target practice &#8211; August 2008.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.robballen.com\/archive\/2009\/01\/21\/nice-mozambique.aspx\">Robb Allen speaks French<\/a>? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.frfrogspad.com\/mozam.htm\">Nice Mozambique!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gun control looms as a major domestic issue, now that President Barack Obama has assumed the position. The President has been openly against private gun ownership&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,65,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-second-amendment","category-shooting","category-whacko-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2478\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}