{"id":10445,"date":"2013-06-16T00:51:54","date_gmt":"2013-06-16T07:51:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=10445"},"modified":"2013-06-16T00:51:54","modified_gmt":"2013-06-16T07:51:54","slug":"gop-passes-firearms-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2013\/06\/16\/gop-passes-firearms-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP Passes Firearms Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ever since the Republican Party scurried to goose-step in lock step behind Wayne LaPierre and the gun industry, I have predicted that Republicans in Washington D.C. would pass no firearms legislation.  I was wrong.  House Republicans actually have passed a firearms related bill.  They want to restrict ammunition purchases by the US government, so nut cases can have more.<\/font><\/p>\n

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The Republican-led House of Representatives managed to pass a piece of gun-related legislation in time for Friday, the six-month anniversary of the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. According to Rachel Maddow, however, the law is a conspiracy theory-inspired piece of right-wing fantasy come to life\u2026<\/p>\n

…This particular conservative freakout was born, as Maddow said, \u201cin the usual conspiracy clearinghouses,\u201d World Net Daily, TheBlaze.com and InfoWars.com.<\/p>\n

The trouble is that these kinds of right-wing extremist ideas are getting traction in Congress. Republican politicians are legislating against their own straw men\u2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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If the supply is gone, I can tell you who has it. See the picture above. The republican’s main goal where mass shootings is concerned seems to be to preserve their ability to perpetrate them in threatened attempts to overthrow the US government. That is sedition!<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ever since the Republican Party scurried to goose-step in lock step behind Wayne LaPierre and the gun industry, I have predicted that Republicans in Washington D.C. would pass no firearms legislation.  I was wrong.  House Republicans actually have passed a firearms related bill.  They want to restrict ammunition purchases by the US government, so nut […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10445\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}