{"id":4289,"date":"2009-02-27T09:06:23","date_gmt":"2009-02-27T14:06:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4289"},"modified":"2009-02-27T09:07:10","modified_gmt":"2009-02-27T14:07:10","slug":"youve-been-warned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4289","title":{"rendered":"You&#8217;ve Been Warned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks ago &#8211; while some &#8220;conservative&#8221; Americans were phumphering about over idiotic ephemera like Obama&#8217;s birth certificate &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/looktruenorth.com\/liberty\/right-to-keep-and-bear-arms\/7111-new-assault-weapons-ban.html\">I predicted <\/a>that the turmoil in Northern Mexico would lead the Obama Adminstration to drive head-first back into gun control, for the Mexican children.<\/p>\n<p>As Kevin Ecker notes at True North and Eckernet, <a href=\"http:\/\/looktruenorth.com\/liberty\/right-to-keep-and-bear-arms\/7111-new-assault-weapons-ban.html\">I was right<\/a> &#8211; not that it&#8217;s hard to be right when trying to plumb the depths of Democrat depravity on civil liberties issues.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/looktruenorth.com\/liberty\/right-to-keep-and-bear-arms\/7111-new-assault-weapons-ban.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.looktruenorth.com\/images\/FreedomDogs\/looktruenorthsmall140.png\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ecker:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Attorney General Eric Holder has announced that one of those &#8220;common sense&#8221;  measures on gun-control is that they&#8217;d like to bring back the Assault Weapons Ban and goes on to explain why.  If the issue weren&#8217;t so serious, the statement would be hilarious.  His rationale for such a move is a bold combination of self-defeating rhetoric, outright falsehoods and just plain paranoia.<em>Holder said that putting the ban back in place would not only be a positive move by the United States, it would help cut down on the flow of guns going across the border into Mexico, which is struggling with heavy violence among drug cartels along the border.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>So because of the ineptitude of the Mexican &#8220;government&#8221; and our inability to build something as complex as a fence, American citizens are being asked to give up some of their rights?  At what point was our national sovereignty officially handed over to Mexico?  I didn&#8217;t realize their needs superceded my rights.  Was that part of Hope\u2122 and Change\u2122?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>No, Kevin.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a part of being good &#8220;citizens of the world&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>I hope all of you who stayed home because McCain was mushy on immigration are happy; not only are we not building fences, we&#8217;re importing Mexican laws and government attitudes into the US.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks ago &#8211; while some &#8220;conservative&#8221; Americans were phumphering about over idiotic ephemera like Obama&#8217;s birth certificate &#8211; I predicted that the turmoil in Northern Mexico would lead the Obama Adminstration to drive head-first back into gun control, for the Mexican children. As Kevin Ecker notes at True North and Eckernet, I was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberal-tyranny","category-victim-disarmament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4289","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=4289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4289\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}