“So let\u2019s drop the pretense. Most politicians standing in the way of background checks for firearms don\u2019t really believe in freedom or limited government. They simply care more about controlling immigration than they do about controlling guns.”<\/span><\/p>\nYou say that like it’s a bad thing.<\/p>\n
Joe Doakes<\/p>\n
Como Park<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Lawmakers being more interested in curbing law-breaking than attacking the law-abiding?<\/p>\n
There oughtta be a law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Article in Slate, republished in today’s Star Tribune on-line: “So let\u2019s drop the pretense. Most politicians standing in the way of background checks for firearms don\u2019t really believe in freedom or limited government. They simply care more about controlling immigration than they do about controlling guns.” You say that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,109,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tc-media-bias","category-sovereignty","category-victim-disarmament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35837","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=35837"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35838,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35837\/revisions\/35838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}