{"id":18360,"date":"2013-04-11T21:07:56","date_gmt":"2013-04-12T01:07:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=18360"},"modified":"2013-04-11T21:07:57","modified_gmt":"2013-04-12T01:07:57","slug":"why-the-anti-gun-hysteria-is-dangerous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=18360","title":{"rendered":"Why The Anti-Gun Hysteria Is Dangerous"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theblaze.com\/stories\/2013\/04\/11\/oops-new-york-state-police-admit-to-big-mistake-in-gun-confiscation-case\/\">The Blaze<\/a> is reporting today that the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"New York State Police\" href=\"http:\/\/www.troopers.ny.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">New York State Police<\/a> mistakenly confiscated the guns of a law-abiding citizen. They confiscated the guns and suspended the gun permit of David Lewis of <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Amherst, New York\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=42.9783333333,-78.8&amp;spn=0.1,0.1&amp;q=42.9783333333,-78.8 (Amherst%2C%20New%20York)&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation\">Amherst, New York<\/a>, based on the misinformation that Mr. Lewis had <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"emotional health\" href=\"http:\/\/www.everydayhealth.com\/emotional-health\/index.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"everydayhealth\">mental health<\/a> problems.<\/p>\n<p>The article reports:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\" data-orig=\"\u201cErie County Clerk Chris Jacobs said that late today he received a call from the New York State Police informing him that they had provided information on the wrong person when they notified his office of someone whose permit should be suspended because of the new mental health provisions in New York\u2019s SAFE Act,\u201d the release begins.\" data-key=\"eccrb\" data-num=\"4\"><strong>\u201cErie <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Clerk (municipal official)\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Clerk_%28municipal_official%29\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">County Clerk<\/a> Chris Jacobs said that late today he received a call from the New York State Police informing him that they had provided information on the wrong person when they notified his office of someone whose permit should be suspended because of the new mental health provisions in <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"New York\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=43.0,-75.0&amp;spn=3.0,3.0&amp;q=43.0,-75.0 (New%20York)&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation\">New York<\/a>\u2019s SAFE Act,\u201d the release begins.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\" data-orig=\"\u201cWhen the State Police called to tell us they made a mistake and had the wrong person \u2026 it become clear that the state did not do their job here and now we all look foolish,\u201d the release went on to say in a quote from Clerk Jacobs.\" data-key=\"wtscj\" data-num=\"5\"><strong>\u201cWhen the State Police called to tell us they made a mistake and had the wrong person \u2026 it become clear that the state did not do their job here and now we all look foolish,\u201d the release went on to say in a quote from Clerk Jacobs.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-orig=\"\u201cWhen the State Police called to tell us they made a mistake and had the wrong person \u2026 it become clear that the state did not do their job here and now we all look foolish,\u201d the release went on to say in a quote from Clerk Jacobs.\" data-key=\"wtscj\" data-num=\"5\">This is a vivid example of what can happen when the government has too much power.<\/p>\n<p data-orig=\"\u201cWhen the State Police called to tell us they made a mistake and had the wrong person \u2026 it become clear that the state did not do their job here and now we all look foolish,\u201d the release went on to say in a quote from Clerk Jacobs.\" data-key=\"wtscj\" data-num=\"5\">This is the press release acknowledging the error:<\/p>\n<p data-orig=\"\u201cWhen the State Police called to tell us they made a mistake and had the wrong person \u2026 it become clear that the state did not do their job here and now we all look foolish,\u201d the release went on to say in a quote from Clerk Jacobs.\" data-key=\"wtscj\" data-num=\"5\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"PressRelease_JacobsMHL9.46\" alt=\"New York State Police Admits It Got Wrong Man in Gun Confiscation Case\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/PressRelease_JacobsMHL9.46-479x620.jpg\" width=\"479\" height=\"620\" \/><\/p>\n<p data-orig=\"\u201cWhen the State Police called to tell us they made a mistake and had the wrong person \u2026 it become clear that the state did not do their job here and now we all look foolish,\u201d the release went on to say in a quote from Clerk Jacobs.\" data-key=\"wtscj\" data-num=\"5\">Keep this incident in mind as you listen to Congress declare that they have no intention of confiscating guns.<a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/?px\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: none; float: right;\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_e.png?x-id=97770e7e-8664-4d78-afce-1e4a898809f6\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Blaze is reporting today that the New York State Police mistakenly confiscated the guns of a law-abiding citizen. They confiscated the guns and suspended the gun permit of David Lewis of Amherst, New York, based on the misinformation that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=18360\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5367,5369,5370,4824,792,5366,5368,285],"class_list":["post-18360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-clerk","tag-david-lewis","tag-health-insurance-portability-and-accountability-act","tag-mental-health","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-state-police","tag-state-police","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18360"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18363,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18360\/revisions\/18363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}