{"id":5767,"date":"2011-12-20T19:14:28","date_gmt":"2011-12-21T01:14:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freethoughtblogs.com\/xblog\/?p=1731"},"modified":"2011-12-20T19:14:28","modified_gmt":"2011-12-21T01:14:28","slug":"why-we-need-to-disband-the-nra-and-drop-the-second-amendment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/20\/why-we-need-to-disband-the-nra-and-drop-the-second-amendment\/","title":{"rendered":"Why we need to disband the NRA and drop the Second Amendment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If we didn&#8217;t have a Second Amendment in the United States, we would still have firearms and people could still own guns, and hunt, and do all that other fun stuff.  But we wouldn&#8217;t have what amounts to a religious proscription against doing anything <em>smart<\/em> when it comes to firearms.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ohhshoot.blogspot.com\/2011\/12\/albuquerque-woman-warns-of-defect-with.html\">The Ohh Shoot blog reports on a very interesting situation. <\/a> A woman was very severely wounded (nearly killed, I&#8217;d say) when her pistol fell out of her holster and discharged, the bullet piercing several body parts and organs and eventually lodging in her liver.  She seems to be making a reasonably well documented claim that this particular firearm has a defect; It tends to discharge if jolted. One could argue that in theory any firearm might do that, but this is a situation where this particular brand, make, model of gun does it far more often than it should.<\/p>\n<p>But it does not matter.  If this was a faulty toaster or a safety problem with a car or a ball point pen that was dangerous, there would be a mechanism (or two) to warn consumers, recall the product, and\/or make the manufacturer change the design and possibly retrofit for safety.  <\/p>\n<p>But no.  None of this can happen because it is a firearm, and any effort ever to implement any kind of safety regulation at all is always opposed with the Big Money and Long Arm of the NRA.  <\/p>\n<p>The Second Amendment gives the NRA and the &#8220;Gun Nuts&#8221; the power to control the safety of the environment we live in.  This should not be.  It needs to end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If we didn&#8217;t have a Second Amendment in the United States, we would still have firearms and people could still own guns, and hunt, and do all that other fun stuff. But we wouldn&#8217;t have what amounts to a religious proscription against doing anything smart when it comes to firearms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[421,290,560],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-1v1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5767"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5767\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}