{"id":215,"date":"2013-01-31T14:21:55","date_gmt":"2013-01-31T22:21:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gunliberal.treffle.com\/?p=215"},"modified":"2013-01-31T14:26:23","modified_gmt":"2013-01-31T22:26:23","slug":"controlling-bullets-instead-of-guns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gunliberal.treffle.com\/?p=215","title":{"rendered":"Controlling bullets instead of guns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Rock is a funny and smart guy. I liked his routine on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=aAoMNEQo4sQ\">five-thousand-dollar bullets<\/a>. But while that&#8217;s good comedy, it&#8217;s an extraordinarily bad idea. People who own guns need regular practice because gun handling is a perishable skill. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=aAoMNEQo4sQ\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-258 alignright\" alt=\"chrisrock\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gunliberal.treffle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/chrisrock.png\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a>And responsible gun owners really do need to know what they&#8217;re doing. At $5000 a round, a day at the range could cost millions.<\/p>\n<p>Sadly, it isn&#8217;t just comedians who have this idea, but also some legislators. They want background checks to buy ammunition. They want a database of who is buying ammo. They want to drastically increase the difficulty and cost for regular, law-abiding citizens to maintain their proficiency and enjoy the shooting sports. And how will this help anything? A drive-by gang shooting takes a handful of ammunition. A day at the range with friends takes boxfuls.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-263 alignleft\" alt=\"redcarcrash\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gunliberal.treffle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/redcarcrash1.jpg\" width=\"119\" height=\"100\" \/>Here&#8217;s an idea to consider. Thousands of people are killed each year by drivers without a valid license. It&#8217;s illegal for them to drive, but they&#8217;re doing it anyway. Should we force gas stations to verify your license and put your details into a database every time you fill up? It might help save many lives, but we would never do this. That&#8217;s because of the cost, inconvenience, and violation of privacy that it would mean to every law-abiding driver.<\/p>\n<p>Although it might well save some lives, it doesn&#8217;t make sense to intrude on everyone&#8217;s lives with gas-station license checks, does it? Ammunition control laws make even less sense.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s just gun control by another name, and doesn&#8217;t make sense.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Rock is a funny and smart guy. I liked his routine on five-thousand-dollar bullets. But while that&#8217;s good comedy, it&#8217;s an extraordinarily bad idea. People who own guns need regular practice because gun handling is a perishable skill. And &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gunliberal.treffle.com\/?p=215\"><em>Continue&nbsp;reading&nbsp;<span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gunliberal.treffle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gunliberal.treffle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gunliberal.treffle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunliberal.treffle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunliberal.treffle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=215"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunliberal.treffle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":267,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunliberal.treffle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions\/267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gunliberal.treffle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunliberal.treffle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunliberal.treffle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}