{"id":12117,"date":"2019-09-15T18:27:51","date_gmt":"2019-09-15T18:27:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=12117"},"modified":"2019-09-15T18:27:52","modified_gmt":"2019-09-15T18:27:52","slug":"law-abiding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=12117","title":{"rendered":"Law Abiding?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:5628,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/amzn.to\\\/300ApxP&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/gp\\\/product\\\/1938842413\\\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;linkCode=sl1&amp;tag=nolaonguanmo-20&amp;linkId=76d13346bba9633fe07ff09c627728d5&amp;language=en_US&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:5629,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/gp\\\/product\\\/1938842413\\\/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i1&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:5630,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/twitter.com\\\/NathanHRubin\\\/status\\\/1172898484783144960?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:5631,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.facebook.com\\\/coldservings\\\/posts\\\/10213268525367417?__xts__[0]=68.ARBw1QyfTapIyb8sWSCEw5tzNTP18ONiBzeY-pmdeE9hbBOLq_T2CzcsIPDMQlqarG6VRFPjCYA4yeTtUjd2NlrURetzZPeIGfiSznR1ldlIge4tZoT8BlZXQ7IDSelsTtbA2DqNcWxJRk4zTBT_lpRQrhJF28_Op9LTO4THO7Yz0XvHne2clpCN8bGtMeZYgoLiRGtaeSw9BGs7ECZiELpSx5PWyHow4ybd86auYDI8tjG2b6S-qVpCgAIwg2Pz6soXUfwQ0AjtWXdajEtBlvMEGPrkBAhxAeF_zTZkcRy86dNBSQWUQSgOKPFJvE4tFIctVvY3GcqKzyBd4qYY&amp;__tn__=-R&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<!-- Global site tag (gtag.js) - Google Analytics -->\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/www.googletagmanager.com\/gtag\/js?id=UA-147431441-1\"><\/script>\n<script>\n  window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || [];\n  function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);}\n  gtag('js', new Date());\n\n  gtag('config', 'UA-147431441-1');\n<\/script>\n\n\n\n<p>A friend pointed out a Twitter post by a Nathan Rubin. His Twitter bio says he&#8217;s an &#8220;award winning&#8221; author and Democratic activist. His book, <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/300ApxP\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Boomers to Millennials: Moving America Forward<\/a>, does have some awards but it doesn&#8217;t look like it sold too many copies. Amazon puts it in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1938842413\/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">top 1.9 million<\/a> best sellers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here is what Rubin wrote on Twitter:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">New Rule \u2014 you can\u2019t call yourself a law abiding gun owner if your response to a mandatory gun buyback is \u201ccome and get it.\u201d<br><br>Either you\u2019d follow the law and turn it in (because that\u2019d be the law), or you\u2019re an irresponsible criminal who has no business owning an AK-47 or AR-15.<\/p>&mdash; Nathan H. Rubin (@NathanHRubin) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NathanHRubin\/status\/1172898484783144960?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">September 14, 2019<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> \n\n\n\n<p>So unless I am a compliant sheep and turn in my ARs and AKs, I will be considered (by him) to be an irresponsible criminal. Hmm. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/coldservings\/posts\/10213268525367417?__xts__[0]=68.ARBw1QyfTapIyb8sWSCEw5tzNTP18ONiBzeY-pmdeE9hbBOLq_T2CzcsIPDMQlqarG6VRFPjCYA4yeTtUjd2NlrURetzZPeIGfiSznR1ldlIge4tZoT8BlZXQ7IDSelsTtbA2DqNcWxJRk4zTBT_lpRQrhJF28_Op9LTO4THO7Yz0XvHne2clpCN8bGtMeZYgoLiRGtaeSw9BGs7ECZiELpSx5PWyHow4ybd86auYDI8tjG2b6S-qVpCgAIwg2Pz6soXUfwQ0AjtWXdajEtBlvMEGPrkBAhxAeF_zTZkcRy86dNBSQWUQSgOKPFJvE4tFIctVvY3GcqKzyBd4qYY&amp;__tn__=-R\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">David Burkhead gave the best response<\/a> to this nonsense on Facebook.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p> You can&#8217;t call yourself a law abiding American if you don&#8217;t return fugitive slaves to their owners. You can&#8217;t call yourself a law abiding Chinese if you don&#8217;t report any disagreement with Mao to the authorities. You can&#8217;t call yourself a law abiding German if you don&#8217;t report the presence of any hiding Jews.<\/p><p><br>See how that works? <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>The only one I&#8217;d add is that you couldn&#8217;t call yourself a law abiding Soviet citizen if you didn&#8217;t report someone criticizing the Communist Party to the KGB. In Stalin&#8217;s time, that was enough to either get you an ounce of lead along with an unmarked grave or a trip to the Gulag Archipelago. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I think that is the dream in the back of the minds of the authoritarian gun prohibitionists.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A friend pointed out a Twitter post by a Nathan Rubin. 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