{"id":9109,"date":"2016-01-05T20:36:41","date_gmt":"2016-01-06T01:36:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/?p=9109"},"modified":"2024-09-11T20:50:34","modified_gmt":"2024-09-12T00:50:34","slug":"obamas-latest-anti-gun-nonsense-hypocrisy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/05\/obamas-latest-anti-gun-nonsense-hypocrisy\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama&#8217;s Latest Anti-Gun Nonsense and Hypocrisy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/the-fix\/wp\/2016\/01\/05\/president-obamas-amazingly-emotional-speech-on-gun-control-annotated\/\">&#8220;I taught constitutional law, I know a little bit about this<\/a>,&#8221; President Obama lectures us.\u00a0 And then he says: &#8220;We understand there are some constraints on our freedom in order to protect innocent people.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And the best way to protect innocent people is to assume that gun owners as a group are guilty.<\/p>\n<p>I think I missed the middle step in his syllogism. And I don&#8217;t think he was crying because of the cruel necessity of trampling the Second Amendment.<\/p>\n<p>I tossed out a few tweets on his speech today &#8211;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Obama justifies new gun regs by comparing to airport &quot;metal detectors&quot; but Obama imposed  far more intrusive TSA Whole Body Scanners on us<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; James Bovard (@JimBovard) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JimBovard\/status\/684782203742646273?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 6, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">How many tears has Obama publicly shed since 2009 when federally-funded police gunned down innocent Americans? <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/StopGunViolence?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#StopGunViolence<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; James Bovard (@JimBovard) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JimBovard\/status\/684486486411079680?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 5, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">So Obama will end mass shootings by cracking down on gun sellers who have business cards? HOOT!  <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/tellusatoday?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#tellusatoday<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; James Bovard (@JimBovard) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JimBovard\/status\/684449270158749697?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 5, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Obama wants smart guns for Pentagon but still no requirement that presidents use brains to deploy US troops abroad <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/tellusatoday?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#tellusatoday<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; James Bovard (@JimBovard) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JimBovard\/status\/684429505168031744?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 5, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">When Obama tallies mass shootings of Americans, he omits U.S. soldiers killed because of his idiotic foreign interventions <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/tellusatoday?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#tellusatoday<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; James Bovard (@JimBovard) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JimBovard\/status\/684429103026565121?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 5, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I taught constitutional law, I know a little bit about this,&#8221; President Obama lectures us.\u00a0 And then he says: &#8220;We understand there are some constraints on our freedom in order to protect innocent people.&#8221; And the best way to protect innocent people is to assume that gun owners as a group are guilty. 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