{"id":56922,"date":"2016-01-05T07:00:27","date_gmt":"2016-01-05T13:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=56922"},"modified":"2016-01-05T06:55:15","modified_gmt":"2016-01-05T12:55:15","slug":"a-laughing-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=56922","title":{"rendered":"A Laughing Matter"},"content":{"rendered":"

While the Democrats love to prate and gabble about “gun violence”, they stay rigorously clear on the one “gun safety” measure that has a proven record of, y’know, reducing gun crime – prosecuting criminals who use guns.<\/p>\n

The federal legal framework for going after gun criminals has existed for a long, long time – but different administrations, shall we say, approach the issue with different degrees of vigor<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Hinderaker:<\/p>\n

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The Clinton administration talked a good game on guns\u2013remember the \u201cassault weapons\u201d ban?\u2013but when it came to actual law enforcement, its record was horrendous. (Someone should mention that to Hillary.) Things shaped up considerably under the Bush administration, which achieved record levels of gun-crime-related convictions. But when Barack Obama became president and Eric Holder took over the Department of Justice, enforcement went straight downhill. Over the course of the Obama administration, it has only gotten worse. Today, gun convictions are down 35% since the Bush administration peak in 2005 and 2006. Obama and Holder had an agenda, but it wasn\u2019t law enforcement.<\/p>\n

So on guns, as with regard to most other issues, Barack Obama is all talk. He isn\u2019t interested in solving problems, he is just seeking political advantage. His corrupt administration can\u2019t end soon enough.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Unless, of course, it’s replaced by something worse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While the Democrats love to prate and gabble about “gun violence”, they stay rigorously clear on the one “gun safety” measure that has a proven record of, y’know, reducing gun crime – prosecuting criminals who use guns. The federal legal framework for going after gun criminals has existed for a long, long time – but […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,64,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-and-punishment","category-president-obama","category-victim-disarmament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56922","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=56922"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56927,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56922\/revisions\/56927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}