For almost two decades, exhibit #1 has been Diane Feinstein, who has made gun control a creepy fetish for over two decades now.<\/p>\n
Opponents of the Assault Weapons Ban point to Feinstein\u2019s hypocrisy on the issue, as the Senator herself said she obtained a concealed carry permit in California when she felt her life was threatened.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
You find this, over and over, with gun control leaders; you, the hoi-polloi<\/em>, should be content to call the cops; as elites, they’re different; their lives are\u00a0worth defending<\/em>.<\/p>\nIn 1995, Feinstein described this experience:<\/p>\n
“Less than 20 years ago, I was the target of a terrorist group. It was the New World Liberation Front. They blew up power stations and put a bomb at my home when my husband was dying of cancer and the bomb was set to detonate around 2 \u2018o clock in the morning, but it was a construction explosive that doesn\u2019t detonate when it drops below freezing. It doesn\u2019t usually freeze in San Francisco, but on this night it dropped below freezing and the bomb didn\u2019t detonate.
\n“I was very lucky, but I thought of what might have happened. Later the same group shot out all the windows of my home and I know the sense of helplessness that people feel. I know the urge to arm yourself, because that\u2019s what I did. I was trained in firearms. When I walked to the hospital when my husband was sick, I carried a concealed weapon. I made the determination that if somebody was going to try to take me out I was going to take them with me. Now having said all of that, that was period of time ago and I\u2019ve watched through these 20 years as terrorism has increased both on the far extremist left and the far extremist right in this country.”.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
And throughout that time, her line has been the same: \u00a0her\u00a0<\/em>life is vital and worth protecting; yours is mundane and can wait your turn. \u00a0 When she was mayor of Sant Francisco, she revoked all civilian carry permits – but got her converted to a “police” permit.<\/p>\nHer “training” was no more involved that what all of us carry permit holders get.<\/p>\n
You find this level of hypocrisy throughout the gun control movement; the lists of prominent gun-grabbers who’ve gotten themselves carry permits, or wangled permits for their bodyguards, or who’ve been busted with illegal guns, is legendary among 2nd Amendment Rights activists…<\/p>\n
…and unknown among anyone that depends on the media – frequently among the biggest hypocrites – for news on the subject.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
For us Second Amendment activists, especially those of us who’ve been at it for a while, \u00a0there’ve been a few constants. One of them: \u00a0the rank hypocrisy of the leadership of the gun control movement; then, now, and always. For almost two decades, exhibit #1 has been Diane Feinstein, who has made gun control a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-victim-disarmament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32860","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=32860"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32865,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32860\/revisions\/32865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}