{"id":941,"date":"2016-07-21T11:48:00","date_gmt":"2016-07-21T11:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2016\/07\/21\/i-saw-this-tweet-from-violence-policy\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:26:50","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:26:50","slug":"i-saw-this-tweet-from-violence-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=941","title":{"rendered":"Good Little Statists"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' 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11:29:28&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:9230,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/amzn.to\\\/29X3mN9&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/1984-Signet-Classics-George-Orwell\\\/dp\\\/0451524934\\\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1469101214&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=1984&amp;linkCode=sl1&amp;tag=nolaonguanmo-20&amp;linkId=f7fb0bed56604ec35b08830e52cb5e65&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:4066,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/en.wikipedia.org\\\/wiki\\\/Newspeak&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>\nI saw this tweet from the Violence Policy Center applauding <a href=\"http:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.blogspot.com\/2016\/07\/governing-by-edict-in-massachusetts.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the moves yesterday<\/a> by Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey (D-MA) to rule by edict regarding AWB state-compliant firearms.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\nAt Boston press conference, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VPCinfo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@vpcinfo<\/a> applauds new enforcement actions announced by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MassAGO\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@MassAGO<\/a> against assault weapons. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/018lEsEsNQ\">https:\/\/t.co\/018lEsEsNQ<\/a><\/div>\n<p>\u2014 ViolencePolicyCenter (@VPCinfo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VPCinfo\/status\/755819312796016640\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 20, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>When you consider that their founder and executive director Josh Sugarmann was the person who popularized the term &#8220;assault weapons&#8221;, it all begins to make sense. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/the-fix\/wp\/2013\/01\/17\/is-it-fair-to-call-them-assault-weapons\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">He meant for the term to be used to confuse the general public<\/a> into supporting bans under the guise of &#8220;anything that looks like a machine gun is assumed to be a machine gun&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>Healey and Sugarmann are the people that George Orwell warned us about in <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/29X3mN9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">1984<\/a>. They are the good little statists from the Ministry of Love intent on making us submit to their will. The term &#8220;assault weapon&#8221; is nothing but <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Newspeak\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Newspeak <\/a>&#8211; the controlled language meant to limit freedom of thought. Those earnest men who assembled on Lexington Green in April 1775 must be rolling in their graves to see what has become of their state.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw this tweet from the Violence Policy Center applauding the moves yesterday by Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey&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":[1816,685,1817,304],"class_list":["post-941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-josh-sugarmann","tag-massachusetts","tag-maura-healey","tag-violence-policy-center"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941","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=941"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10784,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941\/revisions\/10784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}