{"id":12534,"date":"2016-02-13T15:28:55","date_gmt":"2016-02-13T20:28:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=12534"},"modified":"2016-02-13T15:28:55","modified_gmt":"2016-02-13T20:28:55","slug":"wonder-what-plan-c-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=12534","title":{"rendered":"Wonder what Plan C is?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ctpost.com\/news\/article\/Plan-B-Gun-control-groups-eye-Mike-Bloomberg-for-6827663.php\" target=\"_blank\">Connecticut Post reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;&#8230; Runaway victories by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\" target=\"_blank\">Trump<\/a> and the populist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.berniesanders.com\" target=\"_blank\">Vermont senator Sanders<\/a> have unsettled groups such as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cagv.org\" target=\"_blank\">Connecticut Against Gun Violence<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newtownaction.org\" target=\"_blank\">Newtown Action Alliance<\/a> &#8230; Neither candidate stands up to their litmus test like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hillaryclinton.com\" target=\"_blank\">Clinton<\/a>, the gun-control groups say, citing Sanders\u2019 voting record and Trump\u2019s machismo rhetoric &#8230; Clinton\u2019s stumble could create an opening for another favorite gun-control crusader, former <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mikebloomberg.com\" target=\"_blank\">New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg<\/a>, who is weighing a third-party bid for president. \u201cOf course, Bloomberg has been very helpful on our issue, and we would see (his possible candidacy) as a good thing,\u201d said Ron Pinciaro, executive director of Connecticut Against Gun Violence &#8230;&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Oh my God are these people people deluded.<\/p>\n<p>The Donald has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2015\/10\/06\/politics\/donald-trump-assault-weapons\/\" target=\"_blank\">proven record<\/a> of supporting gun control while Bernie has a <strong>D-<\/strong> rating from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nra.org\" target=\"_blank\">NRA<\/a>. Pinciaro should be happy with this plus <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=12531\">what they&#8217;ve gotten out of Hillary<\/a> which is a heck of a lot more than they deserve considering their astroturf status.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;&#8230; \u201cThere is some concern that as to how supportive (Sanders) would be to our causes,\u201d Pinciaro said &#8230;&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Really?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;&#8230; Scott Wilson, president of the 21,000-member <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ccdl.us\" target=\"_blank\">Connecticut Citizens Defense League<\/a>, said Sanders isn\u2019t much of an upgrade from Clinton for gun owners.\u00a0 \u201cI don\u2019t really see Sanders as a protector of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.cornell.edu\/wex\/second_amendment\" target=\"_blank\">Second Amendment<\/a>,\u201d Wilson said. \u201cI believe, being from Vermont, he\u2019s tolerated the fact that people own guns there.\u201d &#8230;&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yep.  Plus Bernie just might not care that much about the issue.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;&#8230; Trump previously declared his support for an assault weapons ban in his 2000 book, &#8220;<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/offer-listing\/B003H4I4Q8\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B003H4I4Q8&#038;linkCode=am2&#038;tag=gun0b-20&#038;linkId=GJ4RI2FAAYCLDLDE\" target=\"_blank\">The America We Deserve<\/a>.&#8221; \u201cIt\u2019s so hard to say with Trump, because his positions are so different from his positions at other times,\u201d Pinciaro said. \u201cYou wonder if some of his positions are geared toward the electoral constituency, (as opposed) to what he really believes.\u201d &#8230;&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He&#8217;s full of it.  The only thing Trump believes in is himself.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"ssb_list_wrapper\"><li class=\"fb2\" style=\"width:135px\"><iframe src=\"\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gunpoliticsny.com%2F%3Fp%3D12534&amp;layout=button_count&amp;action=like&amp;show_faces=false&amp;share=true&amp;width=135&amp;height=21&amp;appId=307091639398582\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden;  width:150px; height:21px;\" allowTransparency=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/li><li class=\"twtr\" style=\"width:90px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-url=\"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=12534\">&nbsp;<\/a><script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=\/^http:\/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+':\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');<\/script><\/li><li class=\"gplus\" style=\"width:68px\"><div class=\"g-plusone\" data-size=\"medium\" data-href=\"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=12534\"><\/div><\/li><li class=\"ssb_linkedin\" style=\"width:64px\"><script src=\"\/\/platform.linkedin.com\/in.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\">lang: en_US<\/script><script type=\"IN\/Share\" data-url=\"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=12534\" data-counter=\"right\"><\/script><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Connecticut Post reports: &#8220;&#8230; Runaway victories by Trump and the populist Vermont senator Sanders have unsettled groups such as Connecticut Against Gun Violence and the Newtown Action Alliance &#8230; Neither candidate stands up to their litmus test like Clinton, the gun-control groups say, citing Sanders\u2019 voting record and Trump\u2019s machismo rhetoric &#8230; Clinton\u2019s stumble [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<ul class=\"ssb_list_wrapper\"><li class=\"fb2\" style=\"width:135px\"><iframe src=\"\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gunpoliticsny.com%2F%3Fp%3D12534&amp;layout=button_count&amp;action=like&amp;show_faces=false&amp;share=true&amp;width=135&amp;height=21&amp;appId=307091639398582\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden;  width:150px; height:21px;\" allowTransparency=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/li><li class=\"twtr\" style=\"width:90px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-url=\"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=12534\">&nbsp;<\/a><script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=\/^http:\/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+':\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');<\/script><\/li><li class=\"gplus\" style=\"width:68px\"><div class=\"g-plusone\" data-size=\"medium\" data-href=\"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=12534\"><\/div><\/li><li class=\"ssb_linkedin\" style=\"width:64px\"><script src=\"\/\/platform.linkedin.com\/in.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\">lang: en_US<\/script><script type=\"IN\/Share\" data-url=\"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=12534\" data-counter=\"right\"><\/script><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections-2016","category-moonbattery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12534"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12548,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12534\/revisions\/12548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}