{"id":9927,"date":"2013-02-06T04:51:39","date_gmt":"2013-02-06T12:51:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=9927"},"modified":"2013-02-06T04:51:39","modified_gmt":"2013-02-06T12:51:39","slug":"a-republican-gun-control-solution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2013\/02\/06\/a-republican-gun-control-solution\/","title":{"rendered":"A Republican Gun Control Solution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Now that the American people have at long last been shocked into demanding reasonable firearms reform, Republicans have been twisting in the wind, with scheme after scheme to prevent it, each one more absurd than the last.&#160; I thought it could not get any worse, but I was wrong.<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto\" title=\"GOPHat\" alt=\"GOPHat\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/GOPHat.jpg\" width=\"360\" height=\"360\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Last night, David Barton appeared on Glenn Beck&#8217;s television program to discuss the &quot;real issues&quot; regarding gun control and the Second Amendment.&#160; After an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.video.theblaze.com\/media\/video.jsp?content_id=25556137&amp;topic_id=24584158\" target=\"_blank\">opening segment<\/a> in which Beck claimed that Obamacare will force people to give up their guns and lead to Nazi-like euthanasia programs, the two got down to business with Barton explaining that the NRA was founded <a href=\"http:\/\/www.video.theblaze.com\/media\/video.jsp?content_id=25556151&amp;topic_id=24584158\" target=\"_blank\">in order to protect<\/a> freed slaves from lynchings and that there <a href=\"http:\/\/www.video.theblaze.com\/media\/video.jsp?content_id=25556155\" target=\"_blank\">never used to be<\/a> school shootings in the 1800s because all of the <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/rS-JNCSXJnc\" target=\"_blank\">kids carried guns to school<\/a>\u2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Inserted from &lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightwingwatch.org\/content\/barton-armed-school-children-prevent-school-shootings\" target=\"_blank\">Right Wing Watch<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Here\u2019s the video.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rS-JNCSXJnc?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Now I have no doubt that someone will want to accuse me of taking an absurd wing-nut and calling him a Republican.&#160; Not so fast.&#160; <\/font><font color=\"#0000ff\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/David_Barton_%28author%29\" target=\"_blank\">David Barton is the former chairman of the Republican Party of Texas<\/a>.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that the American people have at long last been shocked into demanding reasonable firearms reform, Republicans have been twisting in the wind, with scheme after scheme to prevent it, each one more absurd than the last.&#160; I thought it could not get any worse, but I was wrong. Last night, David Barton appeared on <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2013\/02\/06\/a-republican-gun-control-solution\/' 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-9927","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\/9927","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=9927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9927\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}