{"id":639506,"date":"2013-01-17T08:52:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-17T13:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/serkadis.com\/index\/?guid=a8a5204dd969d34ddbd26915537bd937"},"modified":"2013-01-17T08:52:00","modified_gmt":"2013-01-17T13:52:00","slug":"a-constrained-gun-control-agenda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/639506","title":{"rendered":"A Constrained Gun Control Agenda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Caleb O. Brown<\/p>\n<p>We didn&#8217;t get the \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cato.org\/blog\/obamas-andrew-shepherd-moment\">Andrew Shepherd moment<\/a>,\u201d a neat parallel between Obama&#8217;s gun-control newser and Michael Douglas in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0112346\/\">The American President<\/a> confidently declaring that he&#8217;s going to \u201cget the guns.\u201d That the faux President made that pledge just moments after confidently affirming his membership in the ACLU (!) shows just how much the Second Amendment debate has changed since the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/District_of_Columbia_v._Heller\">Heller decision<\/a> in 2010.<\/p>\n<p>The President&#8217;s proposed gun restrictions show some recongition that his agenda is constrained by the Constitution. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cato.org\/people\/tim-lynch\">Tim Lynch<\/a> and I discuss President Obama&#8217;s gun control agenda in this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cato.org\/people\/tim-lynch\">short video<\/a>:<\/p>\n<div class=\"responsivevideo-wrapper\" style=\"padding-top: 56.25%\">\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gfYvqP_yAlg\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>More analysis from Ilya Shapiro <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cato.org\/blog\/obamas-executive-orders-guns-better-legislative-proposals\">here<\/a>. Audio-only version of the above video available <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cato.org\/multimedia\/daily-podcast\/obamas-gun-control-agenda\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.cato.org\/~ff\/Cato-at-liberty?a=_ahJOC5d_Qc:LtWAVgGG0Ls:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Cato-at-liberty?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.cato.org\/~ff\/Cato-at-liberty?a=_ahJOC5d_Qc:LtWAVgGG0Ls:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Cato-at-liberty?i=_ahJOC5d_Qc:LtWAVgGG0Ls:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.cato.org\/~ff\/Cato-at-liberty?a=_ahJOC5d_Qc:LtWAVgGG0Ls:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Cato-at-liberty?i=_ahJOC5d_Qc:LtWAVgGG0Ls:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.cato.org\/~ff\/Cato-at-liberty?a=_ahJOC5d_Qc:LtWAVgGG0Ls:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Cato-at-liberty?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.cato.org\/~ff\/Cato-at-liberty?a=_ahJOC5d_Qc:LtWAVgGG0Ls:l6gmwiTKsz0\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Cato-at-liberty?d=l6gmwiTKsz0\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.cato.org\/~ff\/Cato-at-liberty?a=_ahJOC5d_Qc:LtWAVgGG0Ls:gIN9vFwOqvQ\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Cato-at-liberty?i=_ahJOC5d_Qc:LtWAVgGG0Ls:gIN9vFwOqvQ\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.cato.org\/~ff\/Cato-at-liberty?a=_ahJOC5d_Qc:LtWAVgGG0Ls:dnMXMwOfBR0\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Cato-at-liberty?d=dnMXMwOfBR0\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Cato-at-liberty\/~4\/_ahJOC5d_Qc\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Caleb O. Brown We didn&#8217;t get the \u201cAndrew Shepherd moment,\u201d a neat parallel between Obama&#8217;s gun-control newser and Michael Douglas in The American President confidently declaring that he&#8217;s going to \u201cget the guns.\u201d That the faux President made that pledge just moments after confidently affirming his membership in the ACLU (!) shows just how much [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7314,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-639506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7314"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=639506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639506\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=639506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=639506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=639506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}