{"id":46849,"date":"2022-08-17T06:18:37","date_gmt":"2022-08-17T10:18:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=46849"},"modified":"2022-08-17T06:18:37","modified_gmt":"2022-08-17T10:18:37","slug":"common-sense-and-protecting-the-second-amendment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=46849","title":{"rendered":"Common Sense And Protecting The Second Amendment"},"content":{"rendered":"

A few weeks ago, at a House Oversight Committee hearing, the Democrats continued their assault The Second Amendment. On Monday, Breitbart<\/a> posted an article about those hearings.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

Smith & Wesson president and CEO Mark Smith released a statement Monday pushing back against House Democrats, noting that \u201ca Smith & Wesson firearm has never broken into a home.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Smith\u2019s statement comes just weeks after Daniel Defense CEO Marty Daniel and Sturm, Ruger, and Co. CEO Christopher Killoy testified before a House Oversight Committee hearing as Democrats criticized firearm makers\u2019 marketing tactics and profits.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Highlights of the hearing included<\/a>\u00a0Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL) asking Ruger to agree not to sell certain types of ammunition, to which Ruger CEO Killoy responded, \u201cWe do not sell ammunition.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

At another point in the hearing, Committee chairwoman\u00a0Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) claimed gun manufacturers \u201csell the weapons of choice to mass murderers.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

But Breitbart News pointed out<\/a> that gun manufacturers do not sell guns to individuals,\u00a0\u00a0They sell guns to wholesalers and distributors, who, in turn, sell them to federally licensed dealers, who, in turn, sell them to citizens who pass a federal background check.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mass murderers are not limited in their choice of weapons. Timothy McVeigh used fertilizer. Are we going to ban the purchase of fertilizer?<\/p>\n

The article includes a statement by the CEO of Smith & Wesson, Mark Smith:<\/p>\n

Smith & Wesson declined the invite to testify before the committee.<\/strong><\/p>\n

However, company CEO Smith released a statement Monday that \u201cpoliticians and their lobbying partners in the media\u201d have criticized Smith & Wesson for years.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Smith then alluded to Democrats\u2019 anti-police policies, saying, \u201cSome have had the audacity to suggest that after they have vilified, undermined and defunded law enforcement for years, supported prosecutors who refuse to hold criminals accountable for their actions, overseen the decay of our country\u2019s mental health infrastructure, and generally promoted a culture of lawlessness, Smith & Wesson and other firearm manufacturers are somehow responsible for the crime wave that has predictably resulted from these destructive policies.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

The article concludes:<\/p>\n

Smith then pointed out that guns do not commit crimes, rather, people do: \u201cTo be clear, a Smith & Wesson firearm has never broken into a home, a Smith & Wesson firearm has never assaulted a woman out for a late-night run in the city, a Smith & Wesson firearm has never carjacked an unsuspecting driver stopped at a traffic light.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

The problem isn’t the guns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A few weeks ago, at a House Oversight Committee hearing, the Democrats continued their assault The Second Amendment. On Monday, Breitbart posted an article about those hearings. The article reports: Smith & Wesson president and CEO Mark Smith released a … Continue reading →<\/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":[10348,13601,10584,2283,13929],"class_list":["post-46849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-breitbart","tag-gun-manufacturers","tag-house-oversight-committee","tag-second-amendment-to-the-united-states-constitution","tag-smith-wesson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46849","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=46849"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46850,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46849\/revisions\/46850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}