{"id":66441,"date":"2018-03-28T11:00:11","date_gmt":"2018-03-28T16:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=66441"},"modified":"2018-03-28T07:13:50","modified_gmt":"2018-03-28T12:13:50","slug":"yes-virginia-they-are-coming-for-your-guns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=66441","title":{"rendered":"Yes, Virginia &#8211; They <i>Are<\/i> Coming For Your Guns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I suppose we owe liberal retired SCOTUS judge John Paul Stevens a twisted thank you for accidentally telling the truth and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/03\/27\/opinion\/john-paul-stevens-repeal-second-amendment.html\">calling for the outright repeal of the Second Amendment<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And for more than just exposing the manipulative lie.\u00a0 As Glenn Reynolds notes, <a href=\"https:\/\/pjmedia.com\/instapundit\/292394\/\">Stevens&#8217; statement reveals something I suspect much of the left would rather have kept quiet<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>1. Calls to repeal the Second Amendment are, despite whatever gyrations the callers go through, tacit admissions that the Second Amendment bars sweeping gun control.<\/p>\n<p>2. Good luck with that, we\u2019re more likely to see an amendment banning abortion pass than one repealing the Second Amendment.<\/p>\n<p>3. The Second Amendment, according to the Framers (and some Supreme Court dictum) recognizes a natural right; repealing the amendment doesn\u2019t extinguish the right.<\/p>\n<p>4. Nothing could be better for the GOP in 2018 and 2020 races than for the Dems to make this an issue.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Further proof, as if any were needed among those paying attention, that there can be no compromise.\u00a0 Ever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I suppose we owe liberal retired SCOTUS judge John Paul Stevens a twisted thank you for accidentally telling the truth and calling for the outright repeal of the Second Amendment. And for more than just exposing the manipulative lie.\u00a0 As Glenn Reynolds notes, Stevens&#8217; statement reveals something I suspect much of the left would rather [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,1,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberal-tyranny","category-uncategorized","category-victim-disarmament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66441","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=66441"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66448,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66441\/revisions\/66448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}