{"id":47507,"date":"2013-07-03T16:35:20","date_gmt":"2013-07-03T15:35:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/gun-control-for-dummies\/47507\/"},"modified":"2013-07-03T16:54:15","modified_gmt":"2013-07-03T15:54:15","slug":"gun-control-for-dummies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/gun-control-for-dummies\/","title":{"rendered":"Gun-Control for Dummies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p><strong> Becky Akers<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/blog\/lewrw\/archives\/140770.html\" target=\"_blank\">lewrockwell.com<\/a><br \/>\nJuly 3, 2013<\/p>\n<p>None of us need further proof that the Second Amendment protects us from unofficial as well as official thugs. But if you are cursed with morons for friends, try running this pair of stories past them: the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nj.com\/news\/index.ssf\/2013\/07\/man_arrested_in_millburn_home_invasion_caught_on_nanny_cam_to_be_arraigned.html\" target=\"_blank\">disarmed-by-law and therefore helpless mother in New Jersey whom a non-governmental burglar beat in front of her 3-year-old child<\/a> vs. an\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/abclocal.go.com\/ktrk\/story?section=news\/local&amp;id=9157481\" target=\"_blank\">armed father in Texas who ably defended his family in a similar scenario<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And what is the response from New Jersey\u2019s rulers to a serf\u2019s suffering because they\u2019ve gutted the Constitution? Do they abjectly apologize, present the lady with a rifle so that she can defend herself hereafter, and slink back to their sewers? Do they tell their neighbor and New York City\u2019s nanny, Michael Bloomberg, to shut his ignorant, eccentric-billionaire\u2019s mouth before freelance goons pummel his villeins, too? (Yo, Nanny: hard to head for work and earn the taxes that keep your little fiefdom afloat when we\u2019re hospitalized with concussions, broken legs, and wounds from the guns bad guys own despite all your regs.) No, they introduce more laws. The\u00a0\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nj.com\/essex\/index.ssf\/2013\/06\/millburn_home_invasion_prompts_bill_stiffening_penalties.html\" target=\"_blank\">Home Invasion Law \u2026 would upgrade a home-invasion from a third-degree to a second-degree crime<\/a>.\u201d Oh, joy! That oughta put the fear of God into the braindead brutes who prey on residents.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, though this fussy distinction of degrees may please legislators, their disarmed victims will still wind up beaten or dead before the State wastes our money caging the perps \u2013 if it manages to apprehend them. No such worries from that admirable Texan gunslinger: he drilled two of his three assailants before they could hurt him or anyone else. (Thanks to Steve Cross for the link.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Becky Akers lewrockwell.com July 3, 2013 None of us need further proof that the Second Amendment protects us from unofficial as well as official thugs. But if you are cursed with morons for friends, try running this pair of stories past them: the disarmed-by-law and therefore helpless mother in New Jersey whom a non-governmental burglar [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-47507","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-breaking-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47507","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=47507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47507\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}