{"id":85582,"date":"2022-09-13T15:33:49","date_gmt":"2022-09-13T20:33:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=85582"},"modified":"2022-09-13T15:33:49","modified_gmt":"2022-09-13T20:33:49","slug":"85582","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=85582","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gun for me, but not for thee. Another elitist get hung out to dry on their own hypocrisy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ammoland.com\/2022\/09\/gun-theft-highlights-cognitive-dissonance-of-democrat-l-a-mayoral-candidate\/#axzz7ei7cJCan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gun Theft Highlights Cognitive Dissonance of Democrat L.A. Mayoral Candidate<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>U.S.A. \u2013<\/strong>\u00a0-(<a title=\"AmmoLand Reports\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ammoland.com\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\" data-uri=\"47ea1ba96682f451592b08247d5de767\">Ammoland.com<\/a>)- \u201cTwo firearms stolen in a burglary at the home of L.A. mayoral candidate Karen Bass,\u201d\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/two-firearms-stolen-burglary-home-212845520.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-uri=\"f4f11c1f8a38352fde6172d9c5710762\">The Los Angeles Times<\/a><\/em>\u00a0reports:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cBass communications director Sarah Leonard Sheahan confirmed to\u00a0<em>The Times<\/em>\u00a0that the guns belonged to the congresswoman and said they were secured in a Brinks lock box. Leonard Sheahan said the weapons were legally registered \u2026\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That \u201ccash, electronics and other valuables\u201d were \u201cleft behind\u201d suggests that the object of the break-in was to get the guns, making fair the question of who knew Bass had them and how it is that they knew. That Bass and her press handlers consider guns in an\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ebay.com\/itm\/185257279782\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-uri=\"f4cadafb1928131d49923bed71abf29a\">easily carried lock box<\/a>\u00a0to be \u201csafely and securely stored,\u201d though, does comport with what her boosters at Mike Bloomberg\u2019s Everytown consider to be \u201ccommon sense gun safety,\u201d that is, rendering a gun useless in a home intrusion.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s not quite true. It\u2019s quite useful as stolen property, particularly in the commission of later violent crimes, feeding Everytown\u2019s demands for more \u201ccommon sense.\u201d\u00a0And that\u2019s what Bass, currently a Democrat congressional representative for California\u2019s 37<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0District, purports to represent.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cKaren Bass has committed to governing with gun sense as a priority,\u201d Gun Sense Voter, \u201ca project of Everytown for Gun Safety Action Fund and Everytown for Gun Safety Victory Fund, with Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America,\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/gunsensevoter.org\/candidates\/details\/?cid=20105d5acdccb170a6a409a49a58f72857b86c79f58d0b90d27f391e8fd9a640\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-uri=\"f216569482149eb4ab168cd8e8790cb1\">declares<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m proud to be a 2022 Moms Demand Action Gun Sense Candidate and I\u2019m also proud to have earned an F grade from the NRA,\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo.php?fbid=554924642675841&amp;set=pb.100044749298106.-2207520000..&amp;type=3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-uri=\"5b76ee012b3f453cd8b9fa4e1cad94f2\">Bass echoes on Facebook<\/a>. \u201cLos Angeles deserves a mayor we can trust to stand up to the gun lobby, not cower before them.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Invent much? When was the last time an L.A. mayor did that? But yes, of course, she\u2019s a doctrinaire gun grabber.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBass Votes for Assault Weapons Ban,\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/bass.house.gov\/media-center\/press-releases\/bass-votes-assault-weapons-ban\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-uri=\"1c44e1ef18ac5f9e6c4e059119efd5f7\">a July presser announces<\/a>. Others show her on board for anything and everything the antis demand imposing:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/bass.house.gov\/media-center\/press-releases\/rep-bass-votes-lifesaving-commonsense-gun-violence-prevention-bills\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-uri=\"95f8955daac8d48755cbd2ff5274d7e6\">Rep. Bass Votes for Lifesaving, Commonsense Gun Violence Prevention Bills<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/bass.house.gov\/blog\/qa-gun-control\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-uri=\"faac5243d3a882226c9e22d8ee10ea19\">Q&amp;A on Gun Control<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/bass.house.gov\/media-center\/press-releases\/rep-bass-issues-statement-republican-led-gun-control-legislation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-uri=\"d9b79f807ae6199308e9b9e6a8d3f2e8\">Rep. Bass Issues Statement on Republican-Led Gun-Control Legislation<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We could\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=%22Karen+Bass%22+%2B+gun+laws+sponsored&amp;oq=%22Karen+Bass%22+%2B+gun+laws+sponsored&amp;aqs=chrome..69i57.14129j0j7&amp;sourceid=chrome&amp;ie=UTF-8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-uri=\"ec496b9d01b257d3418e2996dea293a2\">do this all day<\/a>, but the point is made. As is her continued cognitive dissonance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRep. Karen Bass, D-Los Angeles, points to how gun violence is also a racial issue,\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/spectrumnews1.com\/ca\/la-west\/politics\/2021\/04\/20\/mother-who-lost-son-to-gun-violence-urges-congress-to-act\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-uri=\"4357eea21cab386e659475808a0e5e56\">Spectrum News 1 reported<\/a>. \u201cBlack Americans are twice as likely as white Americans to die from gun violence.\u201d Assuming that in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbcpac.org\/leadership\/rep-karen-bass\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-uri=\"09cc34cb171ef456b113d413b90a3f08\">her leadership position<\/a>\u00a0with the Congressional Black Caucus, and noting that \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/webcache.googleusercontent.com\/search?q=cache:ZU6R07sYqFMJ:https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2021-08-13\/la-homicides-since-covid-take-mostly-black-latino-victims&amp;cd=3&amp;hl=en&amp;ct=clnk&amp;gl=us\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-uri=\"c3d914b547588f0f5b9e17e5296605bf\">Latino and Black victims<\/a>\u00a0account for nearly all of L.A.\u2019s surge in homicides,\u201d it\u2019s also fair to ask \u2014 if she ever did have to use a gun for self-defense \u2014 does Bass think it\u2019s likely she would add to that \u201cdisproportionate\u201d racial impact?<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s assuming she could get one out of the lock box and deployable in time and forgetting she co-sponsored a resolution to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ontheissues.org\/Notebook\/Note_13-HR318.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-uri=\"24adf728cbb7f8251f1cdac295a9bc4b\">repeal \u201cstand your ground\u201d laws<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gun for me, but not for thee. Another elitist get hung out to dry on their own hypocrisy. Gun Theft Highlights Cognitive Dissonance of Democrat L.A. Mayoral Candidate U.S.A. \u2013\u00a0-(Ammoland.com)- \u201cTwo firearms stolen in a burglary at the home of L.A. mayoral candidate Karen Bass,\u201d\u00a0The Los Angeles Times\u00a0reports: \u201cBass communications director Sarah Leonard Sheahan confirmed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=85582\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hypocrisy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85582","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=85582"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85583,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85582\/revisions\/85583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}