{"id":55495,"date":"2015-10-06T06:00:32","date_gmt":"2015-10-06T11:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=55495"},"modified":"2015-10-06T07:29:21","modified_gmt":"2015-10-06T12:29:21","slug":"the-boogeyman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=55495","title":{"rendered":"The Boogeyman"},"content":{"rendered":"

The\u00a0NYTimes’\u00a0<\/em>“Room For Debate” feature – which generally gathers a bunch of liberals and a token conservative or two to laboriously discuss issues\u00a0– currently features the question\u00a0“Is the NRA Still Invincible”.<\/p>\n

This time, the series features a piece by Glenn “Instapundit” Reynolds, who notes, quite correctly, that it’s a matter of trust <\/a>– and that as people trust government less and less, they are forced to trust themselves more and more.<\/p>\n

“But that’s just paranoid!”, the left will respond. \u00a0“Government is…all of us”.<\/p>\n

No it’s not. \u00a0Government is a bureaucracy that serves, primarily, itself. \u00a0 And its actions, and indeed its statements, are less and less trustworthy as we go.<\/p>\n

“Huh? What do you mean?”<\/p>\n

As Reynolds points out – in 2008, Barack Obama pointed out that “we’re not coming for your guns”. \u00a0Last week, though, he listed as his model for gun control Australia – which carried out a gun confiscation that was incredibly draconian by Western standards. \u00a0And even when they stay out of the realm of specific proposals, it doesn’t help that whenever they open their mouths, they’re lying. \u00a0Every time. \u00a0No exceptions<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Is the NRA invincible? \u00a0It’s irrelevant; in many states (Minnesota included) the NRA is a marginal player. \u00a0It’s the people that make the Second Amendment human rights movement a juggernaut. \u00a0Not invincible, mind you; we came within a cat’s whisker of losing the Second Amendment 40 years ago. \u00a0We can’t let our guard down like that ever again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The\u00a0NYTimes’\u00a0“Room For Debate” feature – which generally gathers a bunch of liberals and a token conservative or two to laboriously discuss issues\u00a0– currently features the question\u00a0“Is the NRA Still Invincible”. This time, the series features a piece by Glenn “Instapundit” Reynolds, who notes, quite correctly, that it’s a matter of trust – and that as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[269,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grass-roots","category-victim-disarmament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55495","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=55495"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55514,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55495\/revisions\/55514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}