{"id":6527,"date":"2012-08-10T10:00:34","date_gmt":"2012-08-10T14:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=6527"},"modified":"2012-08-10T10:00:34","modified_gmt":"2012-08-10T14:00:34","slug":"spitzers-opinion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=6527","title":{"rendered":"Spitzer&#8217;s opinion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Eliot_Spitzer\" target=\"_blank\">Eliot &#8220;The Steamroller&#8221; Spitzer<\/a>\u00a0has been trying to revive his political career lately. \u00a0Now he&#8217;s decided to jump in on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/blogs\/spitzer\/2012\/08\/07\/gun_control_obama_and_bloomberg_could_limit_semi_automatics_by_using_government_purchasing_power_.html\" target=\"_blank\">the gun control debate<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;&#8230; They could use government&#8217;s power in the marketplace\u2014as the largest purchaser of guns\u2014to force the companies we buy from to act responsibly &#8230;&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This was done before and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2000\/03\/30\/us\/gun-maker-s-accord-on-curbs-brings-pressure-from-industry.html\" target=\"_blank\">it nearly bankrupted Smith &amp; Wesson<\/a>. \u00a0You just know the antis are desperate when the best they can do is trot out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/03\/12\/nyregion\/12cnd-resign.html\" target=\"_blank\">disgraced politicians<\/a> to support their positions. \u00a0It&#8217;s just more evidence that the gun control movement is morally and intellectually bankrupt.<\/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%3D6527&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=6527\">&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=6527\"><\/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=6527\" data-counter=\"right\"><\/script><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eliot &#8220;The Steamroller&#8221; Spitzer\u00a0has been trying to revive his political career lately. \u00a0Now he&#8217;s decided to jump in on the gun control debate: &#8220;&#8230; They could use government&#8217;s power in the marketplace\u2014as the largest purchaser of guns\u2014to force the companies we buy from to act responsibly &#8230;&#8221; This was done before and it nearly bankrupted [&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%3D6527&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=6527\">&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=6527\"><\/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=6527\" 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":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-moonbattery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6527","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=6527"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6531,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6527\/revisions\/6531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}