{"id":66742,"date":"2018-05-07T07:00:38","date_gmt":"2018-05-07T12:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=66742"},"modified":"2018-05-06T10:31:33","modified_gmt":"2018-05-06T15:31:33","slug":"nobody-is-trying-to-take-your-guns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=66742","title":{"rendered":"Nobody Is Trying To Take Your Guns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What Linda Slocum was in Minnesota, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/amp\/ncna871066?__twitter_impression=true\">this hamster is on the national level<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In a USA Today op-ed entitled \u201cBan assault weapons, buy them back, go after resisters,\u201d Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., argued Thursday that prior proposals to ban assault weapons \u201cwould leave millions of assault weapons in our communities for decades to come.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Swalwell proposes that the government should offer up to $1,000 for every weapon covered by a new ban, estimating that it would take $15 billion to buy back roughly 15 million weapons \u2014 and \u201ccriminally prosecute any who choose to defy [the buyback] by keeping their weapons.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the past, Democrats and gun safety groups have carefully resisted proposals that could be interpreted as \u201cgun confiscation,\u201d a concept gun rights groups have often invoked as part of a slippery slope argument against more modest proposals like universal background checks.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;ll frame my response in the form of song &#8211; in this case, to the tune of the Beatles&#8217; classic &#8220;Revolution&#8221;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>You don&#8217;t say that you want a civil war,<\/p>\n<p>Well, you know,<\/p>\n<p>You will get one anyway.<\/p>\n<p>You don&#8217;t want people to have guns anymore,<\/p>\n<p>Well, you know,<\/p>\n<p>You want to take them all away.<\/p>\n<p>But if you advocate going door to door,<\/p>\n<p>There won&#8217;t be no Democrat party any more&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>And don&#8217;t you know that that&#8217;d be&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>all right!<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;d be&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>all right!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;ll just leave it right like that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What Linda Slocum was in Minnesota, this hamster is on the national level: In a USA Today op-ed entitled \u201cBan assault weapons, buy them back, go after resisters,\u201d Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., argued Thursday that prior proposals to ban assault weapons \u201cwould leave millions of assault weapons in our communities for decades to come.\u201d Swalwell [&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-66742","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\/66742","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=66742"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66752,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66742\/revisions\/66752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}