{"id":3027,"date":"2012-08-26T02:51:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-26T02:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2012\/08\/26\/putting-cart-before-horse\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:19:21","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:19:21","slug":"putting-cart-before-horse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=3027","title":{"rendered":"Putting The Cart Before The Horse"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:15267,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.vpc.org\\\/press\\\/1208empire.htm&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.vpc.org\\\/press\\\/1208empire.htm&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>The gun prohibitionists were figuratively jumping for joy after the shooting in NYC outside the Empire State Building. I won&#8217;t even go into Mayor Bloomberg&#8217;s stupid comments.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vpc.org\/press\/1208empire.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Violence Policy Center<\/a> put the cart before the horse yesterday. They made many assumptions about the handgun used by the killer of his former boss without knowing the facts. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Washington, DC&#8211;Following the fourth high-profile shooting in little over a month, this time outside the Empire State Building in New York City and reportedly involving a 45 caliber handgun, the Violence Policy Center, a national non-profit educational organization working to stop gun death and injury, issued the following statement:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow long are we going to ignore America&#8217;s gun crisis? Today\u2019s shooting outside the Empire State building is the fourth high-profile shooting in little over a month, following the Aurora, Colorado theater shooting, the Oak Creek, Wisconsin, Sikh Temple shooting, and a shooting outside Texas A&amp;M in College Station, Texas. One can only guess where the next shooting will occur&#8211;but we do know that it will occur. <b>Today&#8217;s shooter reportedly used a 45 caliber handgun<\/b> to end the life of a former co-worker, offering yet another example of how <b>the ready availability of semiautomatic handguns that can be equipped with high-capacity ammunition magazines<\/b> destroy lives and make everyone less safe. All Americans deserve the right to feel safe in public spaces&#8211;in theaters, their places of worship, and walking city streets. The deadly mindset propounded by the gun industry and the gun lobby that guns are the ultimate problem solver is stripping away the feeling of safety that communities across the country not only expect, but deserve. It is long past time to regulate the out-of-control gun industry that makes these horrendous public shootings possible.\u201d<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>From all reports, the Spanish-made Star .45 ACP were purchased legally in Florida 20 years ago. Moreover, even assuming it was larger than the Star PD which only held 6 rounds, this pistol does not have a &#8220;high-capacity ammunition magazine.&#8221; At most, the pistol used by the killer held 8 round and more likely 7.<\/p>\n<p>Normally I&#8217;d suggest that VPC think before they issue such press releases. However, in this case, I&#8217;m glad that they show their stupidity.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The gun prohibitionists were figuratively jumping for joy after the shooting in NYC outside the Empire State Building. I&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":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[45,304],"class_list":["post-3027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-gun-control","tag-violence-policy-center"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3027","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=3027"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8292,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3027\/revisions\/8292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}