{"id":349056,"date":"2018-02-20T09:56:54","date_gmt":"2018-02-20T08:56:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/gun-control-lewrockwell\/"},"modified":"2018-02-20T09:56:54","modified_gmt":"2018-02-20T08:56:54","slug":"gun-control-lewrockwell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/gun-control-lewrockwell\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Gun Control\u2019 &#8211; LewRockwell"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t                            \t<!-- S3 Cache --><!-- S3:S3:Original -->\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week, as everyone now knows, Nikolas Cruz, 19, shot up Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, killing 17 members of that community while injuring several others.<\/p>\n<p>Unsurprisingly, the bodies of the victims weren\u2019t even cold before the usual suspects among the political left began calling for more \u201csensible\u201d or \u201ccommon sense gun legislation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As any reader of this column knows well, I\u2019m anything but an admirer of leftist ideology.\u00a0 Still, there are characteristically leftist positions on <em>some <\/em>issues that, while I reject them, I recognize as bearing at least some semblance of plausibility.\u00a0 And there are some <em>arguments <\/em>for some of these positions that I can respect, even though I find them neither compelling nor persuasive.<\/p>\n<p>This being said, both the \u201cgun-control\u201d position and the argument(s) for it are about as manifestly nonsensical as any of which I\u2019m aware.\u00a0 And because those on the left continue to endorse this position while refusing to so much as entertain the possibility that the time and energy they invest in clamoring for \u201cgun control\u201d could be better spent devising adult responses to mass murder that are of infinitely greater potential for saving lives than their stance of choice, their appeals to \u201cgun control\u201d are also morally offensive.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, \u201cgun control,\u201d as its proponents conceive it, is <em>so<\/em> silly that one can be tempted to ignore it altogether, fearful that by responding to it one risks lending it just an air of legitimacy. Consider:<\/p>\n<p>Whether it is Nikolas Cruz or any other mass shooter, what the Gun-Controllers would have us believe is that while the literally <em>tens of thousands<\/em> of existing gun laws at the federal and state levels were not sufficient to deter&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/2018\/02\/jack-kerwick\/the-radical-illogic-of-gun-control\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this week, as everyone now knows, Nikolas Cruz, 19, shot up Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, killing 17 members of that community while injuring several others. Unsurprisingly, the bodies of the victims weren\u2019t even cold before the usual suspects among the political left began calling for more \u201csensible\u201d or \u201ccommon sense [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-349056","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349056\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}