{"id":12637,"date":"2014-04-27T00:02:53","date_gmt":"2014-04-27T07:02:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=12637"},"modified":"2014-04-27T00:02:53","modified_gmt":"2014-04-27T07:02:53","slug":"maher-on-crazy-gun-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2014\/04\/27\/maher-on-crazy-gun-laws\/","title":{"rendered":"Maher on Crazy Gun Laws"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I have said before that I love to bring you Bill Maher, when I can.&#160; Here he is in all his glory, but instead of the New Rules, this is an outtake of Maher being serious, or at least as serious as he gets.&#160; Sadly, it is also largely a criticism of Democrats that is all too well deserved.<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Maher\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-left: auto; display: block; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; margin-right: auto\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Maher\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Maher1.jpg\" width=\"506\" height=\"316\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Bill Maher and his Real Time panel ripped Democrats again on Friday for not setting themselves apart from Republicans when it comes to gun safety laws, pointing out that even Fort Hood shooter Ivan Lopez questioned how easy it was for a person with mental health issues to have access to firearms months before attacking the base.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur gun laws are so crazy, even crazy people know that they\u2019re crazy,\u201d Maher said. <\/p>\n<p>Daily Beast editor-in-chief John Avlon agreed, mentioning the bipartisan gun bill that could not make it into law despite overwhelming public support following the 2012 mass shooting in Newtown, Connecticut\u2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Inserted from &lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/rs\/2014\/04\/26\/bill-maher-our-gun-laws-are-so-crazy-even-crazy-people-know-that-theyre-crazy\/\">Raw Story<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"433\" src=\"http:\/\/videos.rawstory.com\/video\/Maher-on-crazy-gun-laws\/player?layout=&amp;read_more=1\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"616\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Maher is right.&#160; Far too many Democrats tuck tail over threats from Wayne LaPierre and the blood for profit lobby.&#160; Democrats need to look at common-sense gun safety regulation as an opportunity.&#160; Wedge issues with 90% public support are hard to find.&#160; Use it!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">One place to start is to ask a potential gun buyer is how they vote.&#160; If they say \u201cRepublican\u201d or \u201cDuh\u201d (Republican in TEAbaggerse), then a lengthily mental evaluation to determine their sanity should be performed, before the purchase is allowed.&#160; After all, since Bill wasn\u2019t trying to be funny, it\u2019s my turn. \ud83d\ude09<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have said before that I love to bring you Bill Maher, when I can.&#160; Here he is in all his glory, but instead of the New Rules, this is an outtake of Maher being serious, or at least as serious as he gets.&#160; Sadly, it is also largely a criticism of Democrats that is <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2014\/04\/27\/maher-on-crazy-gun-laws\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/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-12637","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\/12637","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=12637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}