{"id":18663,"date":"2014-09-09T07:21:06","date_gmt":"2014-09-09T14:21:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=18663"},"modified":"2014-09-09T07:21:06","modified_gmt":"2014-09-09T14:21:06","slug":"pitfalls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2014\/09\/09\/pitfalls\/","title":{"rendered":"Pitfalls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One last comment on JPFO&#8217;s death. In last week&#8217;s SAF news release, Alan Gottlieb made the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ammoland.com\/2014\/09\/saf-announces-merger-of-jews-for-the-preservation-of-firearms-ownership\/\" target=\"_blank\">bland, mealy-mouthed statement<\/a> that JPFO would continue &#8220;educating people about the pitfalls of gun control.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not surprising that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/gun-rights-group-endorses-manchin-toomey-background-check-bill\/2013\/04\/14\/f4ae8ae8-a51e-11e2-8302-3c7e0ea97057_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">Mr. Manchin-Toomey-SCHUMER<\/a> would fail to acknowledge that JPFO&#8217;s submersion in SAF is in fact itself a pitfall &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/dictionary.reference.com\/browse\/pitfall?s=t\" target=\"_blank\">a trap for the unwary<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But given Gottlieb&#8217;s support for <del datetime=\"2014-09-09T13:54:28+00:00\">gun control<\/del> victim disarmament measures as long as he judges them to be popular and comfortably mild, I believe Aaron Zelman (may he rest in peace once he stops rolling in his grave) would answer Gottlieb&#8217;s milquetoasty &#8220;pitfall&#8221; remark something like this:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/2014\/09\/09\/pitfalls\/pitfall-01\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-18664\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Pitfall-01-450x278.jpg\" alt=\"Pitfall-01\" width=\"450\" height=\"278\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-18664\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/2014\/09\/09\/pitfalls\/pitfall-02\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-18665\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Pitfall-02.jpg\" alt=\"Pitfall-02\" width=\"448\" height=\"316\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18665\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/2014\/09\/09\/pitfalls\/pitfall-03\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-18666\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Pitfall-03.jpg\" alt=\"Pitfall-03\" width=\"444\" height=\"544\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18666\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Oh, you bet there are &#8220;pitfalls&#8221; for the disarmed, Mr. Gottlieb.<\/p>\n<p>Collaborators, on the other hand, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2010\/09\/02\/nazi-officers-executed-in_n_703894.html\" target=\"_blank\">often find a more dignified fate<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>BTW, anybody who believes Gottlieb will allow Aaron&#8217;s voice to continue to ring should note this example from Mike Vanderboegh of <a href=\"http:\/\/sipseystreetirregulars.blogspot.com\/2014\/09\/regarding-upcoming-gun-rights-policy.html\" target=\"_blank\">how Gottlieb tolerates dissent<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One last comment on JPFO&#8217;s death. In last week&#8217;s SAF news release, Alan Gottlieb made the bland, mealy-mouthed statement that JPFO would continue &#8220;educating people about the pitfalls of gun control.&#8221; It&#8217;s not surprising that Mr. Manchin-Toomey-SCHUMER would fail to acknowledge that JPFO&#8217;s submersion in SAF is in fact itself a pitfall &#8212; a trap for the unwary. But given Gottlieb&#8217;s support for gun control victim disarmament measures as long as he judges them to be popular and comfortably mild, I believe Aaron Zelman (may he rest in peace once he stops rolling in his grave) would answer Gottlieb&#8217;s milquetoasty&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2014\/09\/09\/pitfalls\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pitfalls<\/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-18663","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\/18663","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=18663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18663\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}