{"id":14791,"date":"2016-05-23T00:17:10","date_gmt":"2016-05-23T00:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=14791"},"modified":"2016-05-23T00:18:06","modified_gmt":"2016-05-23T00:18:06","slug":"here-comes-the-gun-rights-demagoguery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=14791","title":{"rendered":"Here comes the gun-rights demagoguery"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/assault_weapons.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12037\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/assault_weapons-300x191.jpg\" alt=\"Some of the weapons collected in Wednesday's Los Angeles Gun Buyback event are showcased Thursday, Dec. 27, 2012 during a news conference at the LAPD headquarters in Los Angeles. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's office says the weapons collected Wednesday included 901 handguns, 698 rifles, 363 shotguns and 75 assault weapons. The buyback is usually held in May but was moved up in response to the Dec. 14 massacre of students and teachers at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. (AP Photo\/Damian Dovarganes)\" width=\"300\" height=\"191\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/assault_weapons-300x191.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/assault_weapons-768x489.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/assault_weapons-1024x651.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/assault_weapons.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The National Rifle Association, to no one&#8217;s surprise, gave its blessing to the presidential candidacy of presumed Republican nominee Donald J. Trump.<\/p>\n<p>And also, again to no one&#8217;s surprise, Trump stood at the podium at the NRA meeting to condemn likely Democratic Party opponent Hillary Clinton&#8217;s view on gun violence.<\/p>\n<p>He did so with his customary panache, meaning his customary hyperbole and outright lies.<\/p>\n<p>Trump said Clinton wants to rescind the Second Amendment. He said she wants to &#8220;disarm American women.&#8221; He said he intends to rescind &#8220;gun-free zones&#8221; at local schools.<\/p>\n<p>Trump&#8217;s answer to gun violence? Put more guns out there.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been going through the public record of Clinton&#8217;s statements on gun violence and, for the life of me, I cannot find a single statement that could be interpreted remotely as an effort to repeal the Second Amendment. It&#8217;s not there.<\/p>\n<p>She&#8217;s talked about regulating the purchase of firearms. She joins other Americans in condemning the hideous increase in gun violence across the nation.<\/p>\n<p>Does she intend to propose a rescinding of the Second Amendment? Does she really intend to disarm Americans?<\/p>\n<p><em>Hell no!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>That won&#8217;t deter Trump and continuing his demagogic tirades.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s all get ready for more of the same.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Rifle Association, to no one&#8217;s surprise, gave its blessing to the presidential candidacy of presumed Republican nominee Donald J. Trump. And also, again to no one&#8217;s surprise, Trump stood at the podium at the NRA meeting to condemn likely Democratic Party opponent Hillary Clinton&#8217;s view on gun violence. He did so with his &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=14791\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Here comes the gun-rights demagoguery<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,14],"tags":[1424,2037,3342,4169,5043],"class_list":["post-14791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-gun-violence","tag-nra","tag-second-amendment","tag-us-constitution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14791"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14793,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14791\/revisions\/14793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}