{"id":65760,"date":"2021-03-13T04:14:55","date_gmt":"2021-03-13T10:14:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=65760"},"modified":"2021-03-13T04:14:55","modified_gmt":"2021-03-13T10:14:55","slug":"65760","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=65760","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

He’s just another (and I quote):
\n\u201cI firmly believe in the right to keep and bear arms…But”<\/em>
\nRINO hypocrite<\/p>\n

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GOP Congressman Tries To Explain Vote In Favor Of Gun Control<\/a><\/p>\n

Rep. Adam Kinzinger of Illinois was one of eight Republicans in the U.S. House to vote in favor of H.R. 8 on Thursday, leading to calls from some Second Amendment organizations and activists to primary the GOP congressman when and if he runs for re-election next year. After casting his vote in favor of so-called universal background checks, Kinzinger issued a\u00a0press release<\/a> characterizing his vote as a \u201cchange for the greater good.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI firmly believe in the right to keep and bear arms, legally. I\u2019m also a strong advocate for conceal carry, and have permits myself to do so. But we have a violence problem in this country and it cannot be ignored. Following the shootings in Dayton, Ohio and El Paso, Texas in August 2019, I said publicly that should the H.R. 8 legislation come before the House again, I would vote in its favor. And today, I did just that.<\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s important to address some of the misinformation about this bill. The language stipulates that it will not, in fact, authorize the creation of a national firearms registry. The requirement for transfers of firearms through a licensed dealer\u00a0does not<\/u>\u00a0apply to law enforcement agencies and officers on duty, to family loaning or gifting to members of their family, if loaned for use at a shooting range or hunting, or in the case of an imminent threat (including domestic violence). I say this because I know my vote today will undoubtedly cause some anguish.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Speaking of misinformation, Kinzinger is actually spreading, rather than dispelling, some bad info about the bill. Take his claim that the requirement does not apply to \u201cfamily loaning or gifting to members of their family,\u201d for example. It\u2019s true that under H.R. 8, a father could give a gun to his daughter without going through a background check. It\u2019s even possible for a nephew to sell a gun to his aunt without having to go to a gun store. If, on the other hand, he were to sell that same gun to his aunt\u2019s daughter, the background check requirement would kick in. Why? Because reasons, that\u2019s why.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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As for transferring a gun to someone for the purposes of self-defense, Kinzinger downplays the qualification that the threat must be \u201cimminent\u201d in order to avoid a background check. A verbal threat communicated to someone over the phone or via text wouldn\u2019t be considered an imminent threat. A past history of abuse wouldn\u2019t qualify as an imminent threat either, so if your neighbor called you one evening and asked if she could have one of your guns overnight because she\u2019s concerned that her abusive ex might show up at her home, you\u2019d have to tell her \u201cno.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBut I believe that in order to curb evildoers from having access to firearms, we have to be willing to make some changes for the greater good. This legislation by itself will not stop violence. It will help, but the core of our issues cannot be changed by laws. We cannot detect or deter evil by legislating. Accepting the reality that this evil exists is part of it, as well as holding those who commit these crimes accountable.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the face of the evil that threatens the fabric of what this nation stands for, we must unite and stand against such hatred. It\u2019s why I took this vote today, making a choice to work towards a better tomorrow for our children and the future of this country.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

What a load of horsesh*t. Like every other member of Congress who voted in favor of H.R. 8, Kinzinger fails to explain how the bill would prevent \u201cevildoers\u201d from getting a gun. This law doesn\u2019t advance any greater good if the impacts are going to be felt by legal gun owners and not violent criminals, who\u2019ll continue to ignore this law just as they already ignore the laws against rape, murder, robbery, and home invasion.<\/p>\n

It also begs the question as to why Kinzinger voted for H.R. 8, but voted against H.R. 1446, the other gun control bill that passed out of the House on Thursday. If requiring private gun transfers to go through a background check is just one of those sacrifices we have to make for the greater good, then why does he think allowing the FBI more time to approve a gun sale is a bridge too far? Why is one okay but not the other?<\/p>\n

The most pathetic portion of Kinzinger\u2019s statement is his claim that he voted in favor of universal background checks as a way of standing against hatred and portraying his vote as a vote for \u201ca better tomorrow for our children.\u201d H.R. 8 will not prevent a single illicit private transfer of a firearm, and Kinzinger knows it. In his own state of Illinois, every person who owns a gun is supposed to have a Firearms Owner ID card, yet there are thousands of criminals in Chicago who are more likely to possess a Ph.D. than a FOID license. Just like Illinois\u2019 FOID requirements, criminals won\u2019t be impacted by this bill in the slightest, and it\u2019s a slap in the face to good people in bad neighborhoods to lie about the effectiveness of this \u201cdo something\u201d legislation. If Kinzinger wants to deter evil, then he should target evildoers, not the legal gun owners that are the focus of the gun control bill he embraced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

He’s just another (and I quote): \u201cI firmly believe in the right to keep and bear arms…But” RINO hypocrite GOP Congressman Tries To Explain Vote In Favor Of Gun Control Rep. Adam Kinzinger of Illinois was one of eight Republicans in the U.S. House to vote in favor of H.R. 8 on Thursday, leading to … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,5,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hypocrisy","category-politics","category-rkba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65760"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65761,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65760\/revisions\/65761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}