{"id":2682,"date":"2013-01-13T00:14:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-13T00:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2013\/01\/13\/an-idea-so-off-wall-it-just-might-work\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:20:34","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:20:34","slug":"an-idea-so-off-wall-it-just-might-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=2682","title":{"rendered":"An Idea So Off The Wall It Just Might Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:14479,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.youtube.com\\\/watch?v=9rGpykAX1fo&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;:14480,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/pjmedia.com\\\/blog\\\/pretend-gun-control\\\/?singlepage=true&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/pjmedia.com\\\/blog\\\/pretend-gun-control\\\/?singlepage=true&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:14481,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.thedailybeast.com\\\/articles\\\/2012\\\/12\\\/17\\\/in-between-mass-shootings-the-media-has-been-mia-on-guns.html?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+thedailybeast%2Farticles+%28The+Daily+Beast+-+Latest+Articles%29&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.thedailybeast.com\\\/articles\\\/2012\\\/12\\\/17\\\/in-between-mass-shootings-the-media-has-been-mia-on-guns.html?utm_source=feedburner&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>\nGun control pushing politicians and their media supporters usually know squat about firearms. Most have seen the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9rGpykAX1fo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">clip where Rep. Carolyn McCarthy (D-NY) when asked what a &#8220;barrel shroud&#8221;<\/a> was, answered she thought it was a &#8220;shoulder thing that goes up.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In this vein, <a href=\"http:\/\/pjmedia.com\/blog\/pretend-gun-control\/?singlepage=true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Frank J. Fleming has a suggestion about new gun control laws<\/a>. Make them &#8220;pretend gun control&#8221;.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"tr_bq\"><p>\n<i>What we can do is pass a law banning a bunch of made-up things that<br \/>\nsound scary, and many gun control proponents already have great ideas<br \/>\nalong this line. For instance, I read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/articles\/2012\/12\/17\/in-between-mass-shootings-the-media-has-been-mia-on-guns.html?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+thedailybeast%2Farticles+%28The+Daily+Beast+-+Latest+Articles%29\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a column<\/a><br \/>\n in which Howard Kurtz mentioned a ban on high-magazine clips \u2014 we can<br \/>\ncertainly do without something that nonsensical. And I\u2019ve heard the<br \/>\npress before mention armor-piercing hollow points and plastic guns<br \/>\n(actually, I think we already banned that made-up weapon in the \u201980s).<br \/>\nAnd as long as the NRA and Wayne LaPierre go apoplectic about it (\u201cThis<br \/>\nban on sorcerer-enchanted guns is just a slippery slope toward<br \/>\neliminating all witch-hexed weaponry!\u201d), gun control proponents won\u2019t<br \/>\nknow the difference between this and actual gun control. And this will<br \/>\nhelp protect our most vulnerable people out there: politicians. Because<br \/>\nlong after the gun control advocates move on to other things, like who<br \/>\nthey want to tax next, gun owners will still be annoyed by any actual<br \/>\ngun control legislation. One of the greatest fears politicians have is<br \/>\nseeing an angry guy with lots of guns charging down the street, because<br \/>\nthey know he\u2019s probably on his way to commit an act of voting.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You know this idea is so off the wall that it just might work. While my preference is for no law, banning made up stuff just might satisfy those clamoring that &#8220;we must do something&#8221;. <\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gun control pushing politicians and their media supporters usually know squat about firearms. Most have seen the clip where&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":3,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2760,45],"class_list":["post-2682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-carolyn-mccarthy","tag-gun-control"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2682","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=2682"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8711,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2682\/revisions\/8711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}