{"id":266,"date":"2013-05-02T00:20:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-02T00:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/2013\/05\/02\/gun-control-doesnt-equal-disarmament"},"modified":"2013-05-02T00:20:00","modified_gmt":"2013-05-02T00:20:00","slug":"gun-control-doesnt-equal-disarmament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=266","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Gun control\u2019 doesn\u2019t equal \u2018disarmament\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I need help here.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m having trouble understanding how the term \u201cgun control\u201d has become synonymous to some Americans with \u201cdisarmament.\u201d I am perplexed that the argument has become one of absolutes, that any form of gun control is seen by gun-rights advocates as code for \u201cthey\u2019re coming to disarm law-abiding Americans.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The universal background check legislation that failed in the U.S. Senate is the best example of the perversion of this debate. The background check is seen by foes of gun control as an intrusion. They say, accurately I\u2019ll concede, that a thorough background check wouldn\u2019t have prevented the Newtown, Conn., school massacre that left 20 children and six educators dead. It is true that the madman who did the deed took the guns from his mother \u2013 who had purchased them legally \u2013 and then killed her before embarking on his killing spree.<\/p>\n

That argument, though, begs the bigger question. How do we stop other madmen from acquiring guns from, say, a private party or a gun dealer? Universal background checks to me seem like a reasonable option.<\/p>\n

The gun lobby, though, has persuaded enough lawmakers that any form of tighter laws translates into some kind of Big Brother overreach into people\u2019s homes, where they keep their guns. I believe I’ve heard the president himself say on many occasions that no one who owns a gun today will have that firearm taken away. <\/p>\n

The intent is to seek to prevent future madmen from committing the kinds of tragic deeds that occurred in Newtown, Aurora, Blacksburg \u2026 wherever these kinds of massacres have occurred.<\/p>\n

I see nothing in any of these proposals that translates to disarming lawful Americans.<\/p>\n\n

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I need help here. I\u2019m having trouble understanding how the term \u201cgun control\u201d has become synonymous to some Americans with \u201cdisarmament.\u201d I am perplexed that the argument has become one of absolutes, that any form of gun control is seen by gun-rights advocates as code for \u201cthey\u2019re coming to disarm law-abiding Americans.\u201d http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/blog-briefing-room\/news\/297319-rnc-and-dnc-clash-over-ad-with-picture-of-obama-consoling-newtown-family The universal … Continue reading \u2018Gun control\u2019 doesn\u2019t equal \u2018disarmament\u2019<\/span> →<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266","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=266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}