{"id":33069,"date":"2012-12-31T13:00:54","date_gmt":"2012-12-31T19:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=33069"},"modified":"2012-12-31T14:40:11","modified_gmt":"2012-12-31T20:40:11","slug":"let-them-do-their-worst-and-let-us-do-our-best","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=33069","title":{"rendered":"Let Them Do Their Worst, And We Shall Do Our Best"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bad: \u00a0The Obama Administration and the Senate&#8217;s Diane Feinswine (Hypocrite, CA) think they have the momentum to push more victim disarmament [1]<\/p>\n<p>Worse: \u00a0The GOP may prove them right.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Republicans control the House and, thus, could be expected as the party of Second Amendment rights to be ready to stop whatever the president and the Democrats come up with in the Senate. But the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.docthompson.com\/\">Doc Thompson radio show has posted what it is says is correspondence with a source in one of the Republican congressional leaders\u2019 offices<\/a>. The emails were apparently exchanged between December 27 and 30.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Click below to view the entire scan:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/pjmedia.com\/tatler\/files\/2012\/12\/email-from-cap-hill.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.pjmedia.com\/tatler\/files\/2012\/12\/email-from-cap-hill.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"532\" height=\"568\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>The crucial email is the one sent at 3:06 pm on the 27th. The source notes that Newtown would not have been prevented if Feinstein\u2019s bill had been law, but allows that the Republicans may assist in banning \u201chigh-capacity magazines\u201d and move on background checks, along with mental health and enforcement of existing law.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I use the term &#8220;victim disarmament&#8221;, since none of Feinswine&#8217;s proposals would have the faintest effect on criminal use of firearms; they&#8217;d place the entire burden on the law-abiding. \u00a0As always.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Newtown killer may have been stalled by the NICS \u2014 some reports say that he attempted to buy a gun at a sporting goods store but failed \u2014 but he clearly was not stopped. He apparently stole his guns from his mother, killed her, and then went on his rampage. His mother had no criminal background and owned the guns legally. The Webster, NY shooter was a known career felon and could not have bought his guns legally. So, as criminals do, he found a way around the system. He either stole the guns he used from his neighbor, or he used her as a straw purchaser to get the guns for him. His neighbor, Dawn Nguyen, has been arrested and charged with being his straw buyer two years ago. She reportedly says that Spangler stole the guns, but he was with her when she bought them, and she never reported them stolen.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>OK, let&#8217;s get down to brass tacks. \u00a0<strong>Any Republican that betrays the Second Amendment can count having their electoral head held underwater until the political convulsions stop<\/strong>. \u00a0I&#8217;m speaking purely rhetorically, here.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Any Republicans entertaining ideas of going along with any Democrat ban should realize that they\u2019re being played by the Democrats and the media, again.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If you are a Real American &#8211; ergo, a supporter of the Second Amendment, <em>as defined in\u00a0the Constitution<\/em>, reiterated in\u00a0<em>Heller,\u00a0<\/em>and incorporated on <del>your masters<\/del> the states by <em>McDonald<\/em>, you need to call your representatives.<\/p>\n<p>Here in Minnesota, they are:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/walz.house.gov\/\" shape=\"rect\">Timothy Walz<\/a><br \/>\n1529 Longworth House Office Building<br \/>\nWashington, DC 20515<br \/>\n(202) 225-2472<br \/>\nContact:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/walz.house.gov\/\" shape=\"rect\">http:\/\/walz.house.gov\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.house.gov\/kline\/\" shape=\"rect\">John Kline<\/a><br \/>\n2439 Rayburn House Office Building<br \/>\nWashington, DC 20515<br \/>\n(202) 225-2271<br \/>\nContact form:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/kline.house.gov\/?sectionid=7&amp;sectiontree=4,7\" shape=\"rect\">John Kline contact form<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/paulsen.house.gov\/\" shape=\"rect\">Erik Paulsen<\/a><br \/>\n126 Cannon House Office Building<br \/>\nWashington, DC 20515-2303<br \/>\n(202) 225-2871<br \/>\nFax: (202) 225-6351<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.house.gov\/mccollum\/\" shape=\"rect\">Betty McCollum<\/a><br \/>\n1029 Longworth House Office Building<br \/>\nWashington, DC 20515<br \/>\n(202) 225-6631<br \/>\nContact form:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/forms.house.gov\/mccollum\/webforms\/issue_subscribe.htm\" shape=\"rect\">email form<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ellison.house.gov\/\" shape=\"rect\">Keith Ellison\u00a0<\/a><br \/>\n1027 Longworth House Office Building<br \/>\nWashington, DC 20515<br \/>\n(202) 225-4755<br \/>\n(202) 225-4886 fax<br \/>\nContact form:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ellison.house.gov\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=36&amp;Itemid=45\" shape=\"rect\">Keith Ellison contact page<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bachmann.house.gov\/\" shape=\"rect\">Michele Bachmann\u00a0<\/a><br \/>\n412 Cannon House Office Building<br \/>\nWashington, DC 20515<br \/>\n(202) 225-2331<br \/>\nContact form:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/bachmann.house.gov\/Email_zip.htm\" shape=\"rect\">http:\/\/bachmann.house.gov\/Email_zip.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/collinpeterson.house.gov\/\" shape=\"rect\">Collin C. Peterson<\/a><br \/>\n2159 Rayburn House Office Building<br \/>\nWashington, DC 20515<br \/>\n(202) 225-2165<br \/>\nContact form:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/collinpeterson.house.gov\/email.htm\" shape=\"rect\">http:\/\/collinpeterson.house.gov\/email.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cravaack.house.gov\/\" shape=\"rect\">Chip Cravaack<\/a>\u00a0 (for another couple of weeks, anyway)<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong>508 Cannon House Office Building<\/p>\n<p>(202) 225-6211<br \/>\nContact form:<a href=\"https:\/\/cravaack.house.gov\/contact-me\/email-me\" shape=\"rect\">https:\/\/cravaack.house.gov\/contact-me\/email-me<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Please contact Walz and Peterson because they&#8217;ve always run as 2nd-Amendment-friendly Democrats; they need to be kept honest.<\/p>\n<p>Contact Kline and Paulsen because I&#8217;m not aware that either has really had a 2nd-Amendment hot potato on their legislative plate. \u00a0While I have every confidence that neither of them are idiots, they need to know how their Real American constituents feel. Over and over again.<\/p>\n<p>As to Rep. Bachmann? \u00a0Contact her to thank her for being a stalwart on the issue, and for spitting tacks at those who&#8217;d say nay.<\/p>\n<p>And Ellison and McCollum? \u00a0They might as well know that we Real Americans outnumbers the pants-wetting class and their ilk.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<!--more--><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[1] I refuse, any more, to use the Orwellian &#8220;gun control&#8221; to refer to the left&#8217;s mania to disarm the law-abiding. \u00a0It is nothing but victim disarmament. \u00a0The more Real Americans refer to it as such, the more people will get the idea.<\/p>\n<p>You with me on this?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bad: \u00a0The Obama Administration and the Senate&#8217;s Diane Feinswine (Hypocrite, CA) think they have the momentum to push more victim disarmament [1] Worse: \u00a0The GOP may prove them right. Republicans control the House and, thus, could be expected as the party of Second Amendment rights to be ready to stop whatever the president and the [&hellip;]<\/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-33069","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\/33069","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=33069"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33072,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33069\/revisions\/33072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}