{"id":36137,"date":"2026-04-17T02:55:25","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T02:55:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=36137"},"modified":"2026-04-17T02:55:27","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T02:55:27","slug":"the-horrors-of-being-called-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=36137","title":{"rendered":"The Horrors Of Being Called Out"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The other day <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=36129\">I wrote about a complaint filed<\/a><\/strong> with the Federal Elections Commission against Giffords PAC. They are accused of violating FEC joint fundraising rules in their efforts to raise money for their PAC and certain anti-gun Democrats in combined solicitations. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today&#8217;s email brings a response from Giffords. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is so utterly typical. Rather than accepting that they crossed the line, they are claiming victimhood saying they are being attacked by the &#8220;gun lobby&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>The gun lobby is coming after us.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This week, the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) \u2014 one of the largest gun lobbies in the country \u2014 filed a complaint with the FEC against GIFFORDS&#8230;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We cannot let their attacks go unanswered. What GIFFORDS needs right now is our most dedicated supporters stepping up to help fight back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Will you please rush a donation to help us beat back the gun lobby and defeat<\/strong> <strong>their extremist candidates everywhere?<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Let me simplify this argument.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>How dare that evil gun lobby insist we adhere to the rules! We are the victims here. We only did it for the &#8220;greater good&#8221;. Oh, and we need you rubes to send us more money.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Give me a break.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The other day I wrote about a complaint filed with the Federal Elections Commission against Giffords PAC. They are&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":12,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[902,232,3148],"class_list":["post-36137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-giffords-pac","tag-nssf","tag-victimhood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36137","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=36137"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36139,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36137\/revisions\/36139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}