{"id":1826,"date":"2010-07-04T08:11:53","date_gmt":"2010-07-04T12:11:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=1826"},"modified":"2010-07-04T08:11:53","modified_gmt":"2010-07-04T12:11:53","slug":"opponents-of-microstamping-are-liars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=1826","title":{"rendered":"Opponents of microstamping are liars"},"content":{"rendered":"

Times Union reporter Jay Jochnowitz<\/a> says we’re all liars. In today’s op-ed, “A legacy to honor as your own<\/a>“:<\/p>\n

“If you haven\u2019t read the Declaration of Independence lately, or ever, give it a read today. It is an inspiring piece of work that will send a chill down your spine. It\u2019s at once genuinely humble and openly proud. It knows the graveness of its message and the consequences of its defiance. From the outset, it seizes the high road \u2014 holding out the self-evident truths of equality and the unalienable rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness \u2014 and never strays from it. It explains and justifies, yet makes no apology. It doesn\u2019t merely call King George III a tyrant, it submits facts \u201cto a candid world\u201d \u2014 more than three dozen grievances in all … <\/em>Do we do it justice when, as we saw in the fight over a proposed New York law to require microstamping of shell casings in semiautomatic weapons, supposed defenders of the Second Amendment<\/a> assert that the law would effectively bar the sale of such guns in the state if the technology wasn\u2019t ready? The law, in fact, would do no such thing, but the \u201cbig lie\u201d prevailed<\/em><\/strong>…”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n