{"id":131181,"date":"2016-08-02T06:02:41","date_gmt":"2016-08-02T12:02:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/08\/02\/the-politics-of-fear-are-effective-and-profitable.html"},"modified":"2016-08-02T06:02:41","modified_gmt":"2016-08-02T12:02:41","slug":"the-politics-of-fear-are-effective-and-profitable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/08\/02\/the-politics-of-fear-are-effective-and-profitable.html","title":{"rendered":"The Politics of Fear are effective &#8230; and profitable!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Barack Obama has been the most pro-gun president ever, based on profits and stock price of US gun manufacturers. <\/p>\n<p>Or, rather, the looming evil specter of Obama the Gun Grabber, as painted by the gun industry&#39;s lobby, the NRA, has been &#8212; despite never actually ever appearing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2016\/aug\/01\/gun-stocks-surge-background-checks-smith-wesson?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Google%2B'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/HVCprBFutCx6oiFCEWdvL15q9ABcLOJajG_DWe5vKYi0ZwQNReWBGDWTPNuSLAAZBE42AEWdzAonNwXk5Cq9bLIFIwvItYw_h6HhtWhihtR7ElFnqgtpm7ZPQoHe88sl99Z1REBDncQAUBeiZis2XqhaT2gr7oEfyOAPuibVJlnBA4NwT1Gh-ExT6DhAQJ8xcrZPrKRdwzcnwW31bGtko4_qKzTFWSjFgPmkFDdDkU-fne_YKCAtsgxtGIChQw9Hqf0Qi5hpHbe2L2bONSSolaWzmFBjd_fqsRNW9v088o_-p4340ijlId9n1nLkMyZBdV2uThGhcQXNhbClabv2SvbzTO9xMPg3XM2mZq3Ot4X-438doajboMX_S4g332elQNnToMfqQn4MloYm0BkL4Hp0GEqwnm4zFiEkjIgn=w506-h910' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2016\/aug\/01\/gun-stocks-surge-background-checks-smith-wesson?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Google%2B'>Gun stocks surge after another month of record high background checks | US news | The Guardian<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/47BREfbH8Mc'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barack Obama has been the most pro-gun president ever, based on profits and stock price of US gun manufacturers. Or, rather, the looming evil specter of Obama the Gun Grabber, as painted by the gun industry&#39;s lobby, the NRA, has been &#8212; despite never actually ever appearing. Gun stocks surge after another month of record &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/08\/02\/the-politics-of-fear-are-effective-and-profitable.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Politics of Fear are effective &#8230; and profitable!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":129407,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/01\/08\/barack-obama-on-gun-safety.html","url_meta":{"origin":131181,"position":0},"title":"Barack Obama on gun safety","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 8-Jan-16 10:46am","format":false,"excerpt":"Yes, quite obviously the anti-American ravings of a tyrannical lunatic who is demanding (by, somehow, not demanding) that the federal government get to take away everyone's guns because only then can he establish a communist state. 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Buy all you can NOW!\") has subsided, leading to\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/guns-and-flag.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":128269,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/10\/09\/mike-huckabee-is-a-dolt-shooting-off-ones-mouth-edition.html","url_meta":{"origin":131181,"position":4},"title":"Mike Huckabee is a Dolt (Shooting Off One&#8217;s Mouth Edition)","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 9-Oct-15 5:09pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Hey, Mike! Long time no talk with! Seems ages ago since you were the avuncular guest visitor on Jon Stewart. Y'know, the guy who was clearly conservative, but also clever, friendly, smiling, and probably a neat fellow to have over to the house. So what's new? 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