{"id":2118,"date":"2013-07-25T12:07:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-25T12:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2013\/07\/25\/best-comment-on-absurd-statement-by\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:22:35","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:22:35","slug":"best-comment-on-absurd-statement-by","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=2118","title":{"rendered":"Best Comment On Absurd Statement By Pelosi"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:13031,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/pelosi.house.gov\\\/news\\\/press-releases\\\/2013\\\/07\\\/pelosi-statement-on-the-one-year-anniversary-of-the-aurora-tragedy.shtml&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20230529234450\\\/https:\\\/\\\/pelosi.house.gov\\\/news\\\/press-releases\\\/2013\\\/07\\\/pelosi-statement-on-the-one-year-anniversary-of-the-aurora-tragedy.shtml&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-19 16:09:53&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-24 12:12:12&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-24 12:12:12&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:13032,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/uspolitics.about.com\\\/od\\\/usgovernment\\\/a\\\/oaths_of_office_4.htm&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20170120075622\\\/http:\\\/\\\/uspolitics.about.com:80\\\/od\\\/usgovernment\\\/a\\\/oaths_of_office_4.htm&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-19 16:09:56&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-24 12:12:09&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-24 12:12:09&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:13033,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/ftf-comics.com\\\/?m=20130725&amp;post_type=comic&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<p>\nLast Friday, former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA)<a href=\"http:\/\/pelosi.house.gov\/news\/press-releases\/2013\/07\/pelosi-statement-on-the-one-year-anniversary-of-the-aurora-tragedy.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> released a statement on the first anniversary of the shootings in the theater in Aurora, Colorado<\/a>. It was, as you would expect from the source, nonsensical. Rep. Pelosi stated in part:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"tr_bq\"><p>\n<i>\u201cIn Congress, there can be no more fitting memorial to the lives lost in Aurora, in Newtown, and across the country than a concerted effort to enact <b>commonsense gun safety<\/b> legislation. We must uphold <b>our oath to \u2018protect and defend\u2019 the constitution and all Americans by expanding background checks<\/b> and keeping dangerous firearms out of the wrong hands.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Beyond misstating the <a href=\"http:\/\/uspolitics.about.com\/od\/usgovernment\/a\/oaths_of_office_4.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Congressional Oath of Office<\/a> that she took, the rest of the statement is just absurd.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ftf-comics.com\/?m=20130725&amp;post_type=comic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The cartoonists at Failure To Fire<\/a> nailed her on this today and they did a damn fine job of it.<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/234.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/234.jpg\" width=\"506\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Friday, former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) released a statement on the first anniversary of the shootings in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2945,466],"class_list":["post-2118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-failure-to-fire-comic","tag-nancy-pelosi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2118"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9348,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2118\/revisions\/9348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}