{"id":1361,"date":"2007-09-27T13:22:29","date_gmt":"2007-09-27T18:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1361"},"modified":"2007-09-27T13:22:29","modified_gmt":"2007-09-27T18:22:29","slug":"a-little-good-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1361","title":{"rendered":"A Little Good News?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Carnivore at TvM notes a little bit of fun psychology<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\u00a0I like to do all my converting of anti-gun or ambivalent people by inviting them to empty a 30 round AK-47 magazine at the gun range. The big smiles on their faces tell me that a little safe fun is all it takes to convince them that guns aren\u2019t evil. The blacker the rifle, the bigger the smile.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

…but the real “beef” of the post is some good news from the Giuliani campaign; Hizzoner seems to have gotten his head a little straighter about the Second Amendment, in time for his invitation to speak at an NRA special convention:<\/p>\n

[Giuliani] said his thinking on gun rights also was influenced by a federal appeals court decision that overturned a 30-year-old ban on private ownership of handguns in Washington on the grounds that the Constitution gives individual citizens the right to own guns.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cIt is a very, very strong description of how important personal liberties are in this country and how we have to respect them,\u201d he said of the ruling, adding it \u201csort of maybe even did more to crystalize my thinking on the whole gun issue in light of Sept. 11.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

He no longer argues, as gun control advocates do, that the right to bear arms applies only to the rights of states to maintain citizen militias. He now says that right also applies to individuals as well, and he cites the court ruling, Parker v. District of Columbia, that said the Second Amendment gives citizens the right to own handguns.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Carnivore – who may be the\u00a0only blogger in town more pro-gun than I\u00a0–\u00a0approves:\u00a0<\/p>\n

…\u00a0if it takes 9\/11 and the Parker<\/em> decision to change Giuliani\u2019s mind, then I welcome him to the club. As a person who grew up and was a product of New York, with its (originally anti-Italian) gun laws<\/font><\/a>, dating back to the early 1900s, I can see how he might have lived his life with his previous view of the Second Amendment and the feeling that it\u2019s not important since most New Yorkers can\u2019t even exercise that right.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So one of Giuliani’s big sticking points for this conservative seems to be getting a little less sticky.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Carnivore at TvM notes a little bit of fun psychology: \u00a0I like to do all my converting of anti-gun or ambivalent people by inviting them to empty a 30 round AK-47 magazine at the gun range. The big smiles on their faces tell me that a little safe fun is all it takes to convince […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,13,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-08","category-republicans","category-victim-disarmament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1361\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}