{"id":184136,"date":"2012-07-24T20:17:00","date_gmt":"2012-07-25T01:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/07\/24\/yes-this-both-cowardice-and-hypocrisy\/"},"modified":"2012-07-24T20:17:00","modified_gmt":"2012-07-25T01:17:00","slug":"yes-this-both-cowardice-and-hypocrisy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/07\/24\/yes-this-both-cowardice-and-hypocrisy\/","title":{"rendered":"Yes, This Both Cowardice and Hypocrisy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Roger Simon (not the Pajamas Media Guy) notes that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/0712\/78866.html\">both Presidential candidates are full of it in their expressions of sympathy for the victims of the Batman shootings<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The issue here is that both candidates, while expressing sympathy, are refusing to do anything, even the most basic stuff, like keeping records of gun purchases, as they do with explosives (and many types of fertilizer), so when someone purchases 6000 rounds and multiple weapons, someone might flag this as being a matter of concern.<br \/>Here is the money quote from the OP\/EE:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: blue;\"><p>What was baloney is that he intends to do nothing about preventing it in the future.<\/p>\n<p>His White House press secretary had announced as much to reporters on Air Force One on the flight to Colorado. Jay Carney said Obama \u201cbelieves we need to take steps that protect Second Amendment rights of the American people but that ensure that we are not allowing weapons into the hands of individuals who should not, by existing law, obtain those weapons.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That \u201cexisting law\u201d was painfully inadequate to protect the 70 people who had been shot in a movie theater was obvious to all. All except for politicians running for reelection, that is.<\/p>\n<p>Mitt Romney is no better. Having opposed \u201cdeadly assault weapons\u201d as governor of Massachusetts in 2004, he now does \u201cnot support any new legislation of an assault weapon-ban nature.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But he, too, said he was \u201cdeeply saddened\u201d by the Aurora shootings. Just not deeply saddened enough to promise to do anything about future shootings.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I think that every player in American politics is Wayne LaPierre&#8217;s bitch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roger Simon (not the Pajamas Media Guy) notes that both Presidential candidates are full of it in their expressions of sympathy for the victims of the Batman shootings. The issue here is that both candidates, while expressing sympathy, are refusing to do anything, even the most basic stuff, like keeping records of gun purchases, as &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1052,1055,978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crimes","category-gun-laws","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184136"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}