{"id":1808,"date":"2013-04-30T14:01:51","date_gmt":"2013-04-30T14:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/megalextoria.wordpress.com\/?p=1808"},"modified":"2013-04-30T14:01:51","modified_gmt":"2013-04-30T14:01:51","slug":"democrat-admits-background-checks-wont-work-wants-to-pass-it-anyway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2013\/04\/30\/democrat-admits-background-checks-wont-work-wants-to-pass-it-anyway\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrat Admits Background Checks Won\u2019t Work \u2014 Wants to Pass It Anyway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sullum writes that the trafficking proposal is just an example of overcriminalization. \u201cThat seems a bit redundant, since transferring a gun to someone you know or have reasonable cause to believe falls into a prohibited category is already a felony, punishable by up to 10 years in prison,\u201d wrote Sullum. \u201cApparently Gillibrand wants to make it even more illegal, which she says is \u2018complementary to background checks.\u2019 There you have the theory underlying the gun controls favored by President Obama in a nutshell: None of these measures on its own will do anything to reduce crime, but if we pass them all together\u2026well, they still won\u2019t do anything, but they will create the appearance of doing something.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/politics\/?x=entry:entry130430-115900\">Democrat Admits Background Checks Won\u2019t Work \u2014 Wants to Pass It Anyway<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sullum writes that the trafficking proposal is just an example of overcriminalization. \u201cThat seems a bit redundant, since transferring a gun to someone you know or have reasonable cause to believe falls into a prohibited category is already a felony, punishable by up to 10 years in prison,\u201d wrote Sullum. \u201cApparently Gillibrand wants to make it even more illegal, which she says is \u2018complementary to background checks.\u2019 There you have the theory underlying the gun controls favored by President Obama in a nutshell: None of these measures on its own will do anything to reduce crime, but if we pass them all together\u2026well, they still won\u2019t do anything, but they will create the appearance of doing something.\u201d via Democrat Admits Background Checks Won\u2019t Work \u2014 Wants to Pass It Anyway<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[98,818],"class_list":["post-1808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-politics","tag-2nd-amendment","tag-gun-control"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1808\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}