{"id":13783,"date":"2013-04-27T17:21:06","date_gmt":"2013-04-28T00:21:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=13783"},"modified":"2013-04-27T17:21:06","modified_gmt":"2013-04-28T00:21:06","slug":"one-question-gun-control-pop-quiz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/27\/one-question-gun-control-pop-quiz\/","title":{"rendered":"One-question gun-control pop quiz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Identify the political position of this person:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Claims that 90% of the public wants &#8220;universal background checks&#8221; on gun buyers.\n<li>Uses code language like &#8220;reasonable reform,&#8221; &#8220;moderate,&#8221; and &#8220;common-sense gun legislation.&#8221;\n<li>Believes that taxpayers should subsidize the cost of universal background checks.\n<li>Wants the fedgov to hire more FBI agents.\n<li>Believes that gun-rights supporters should be worried that if we don\u2019t &#8220;embrace&#8221; universal background checks &#8220;President Obama and others&#8221; will think that we are &#8220;merely obstructionists&#8221; and &#8220;zealots.&#8221;\n<li>Wants the Manchin-Toomey bill reintroduced with a few changes.\n<li>Lies, misinterprets, or is ignorant about some of the bill&#8217;s provisions.\n<li>Believes that &#8220;universal background checks&#8221; will never, ever lead to gun registration because the Manchin-Toomey bill says so.\n<\/ul>\n<p>This person&#8217;s self-identified political position is:<\/p>\n<p>_____ Moderate<br \/>\n_____ Liberal<br \/>\n_____ Conservative<br \/>\n_____ Bleeding-heart liberal<br \/>\n_____ Freaking airheaded liberal<br \/>\n_____ Hoplophobe<br \/>\n_____ McCain neocon<br \/>\n_____ Deluded media suck<br \/>\n_____ Complete freaking moron<br \/>\n_____ Charles Schumer<br \/>\n_____ Worshipper at the Church of Obama<br \/>\n_____ Libertarian<\/p>\n<p>No peeking, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/04\/27\/opinion\/a-libertarian-case-for-resurrecting-the-manchin-toomey-compromise.html\" target=\"_blank\">here&#8217;s the answer<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>(H\/T <a href=\"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jim Bovard<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Identify the political position of this person: Claims that 90% of the public wants &#8220;universal background checks&#8221; on gun buyers. Uses code language like &#8220;reasonable reform,&#8221; &#8220;moderate,&#8221; and &#8220;common-sense gun legislation.&#8221; Believes that taxpayers should subsidize the cost of universal background checks. Wants the fedgov to hire more FBI agents. Believes that gun-rights supporters should be worried that if we don\u2019t &#8220;embrace&#8221; universal background checks &#8220;President Obama and others&#8221; will think that we are &#8220;merely obstructionists&#8221; and &#8220;zealots.&#8221; Wants the Manchin-Toomey bill reintroduced with a few changes. Lies, misinterprets, or is ignorant about some of the bill&#8217;s provisions. Believes that&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/27\/one-question-gun-control-pop-quiz\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">One-question gun-control pop quiz<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guns-and-gun-rights","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13783\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}