{"id":94400,"date":"2020-01-14T13:14:55","date_gmt":"2020-01-14T17:14:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=94400"},"modified":"2020-01-14T13:14:55","modified_gmt":"2020-01-14T17:14:55","slug":"democrat-too-many-2a-supporters-have-mental-health-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=94400","title":{"rendered":"Democrat: Too Many 2A Supporters Have Mental Health Issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_94442\" style=\"width: 411px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-94442\" class=\"size-large wp-image-94442\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Dave-Mardsen-1.png?resize=401%2C333&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"401\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Dave-Mardsen-1.png?resize=401%2C333&amp;ssl=1 401w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Dave-Mardsen-1.png?resize=300%2C249&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Dave-Mardsen-1.png?w=618&amp;ssl=1 618w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 401px) 100vw, 401px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-94442\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Perhaps he&#8217;s disappointed over the fact that a group of 2nd Amendment supporters showed up to counterbalance his message. (The Washington Examiner)<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p>State Senator Dave Marsden held a forum intended for &#8220;the youth&#8221;. A Second Amendment rights group showed up, &#8220;changing&#8221; the expected script of how this meeting was supposed to go.<\/p>\n<p>In the aftermath of the meeting, he claimed to have received many disturbing phone calls. Somehow, these phone calls &#8220;are&#8221; a &#8220;representation&#8221; of the entire Second Amendment rights movement. Consequently, he made a statement regarding Second Amendment rights supporters having mental issues.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">From the Washington Examiner:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Mornings on the Mall host Mary Walter read part of Marsden&#8217;s letter on-air and asked him to comment.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Too many of your members and other 2A supporters appear to have mental health issues<\/span><\/strong>,&#8221; Walter quoted.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">A significant number of these things were indicative of very unstable people, and this is worrisome<\/span><\/strong>,&#8221; replied Marsden. &#8220;<strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">The responses I was getting were from people who showed signs of having mental health difficulties<\/span><\/strong>.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This doesn&#8217;t appear to be an isolated event with regards to what the leftists really think about the rest of us. They appear to be more concerned about a law-abiding citizen being armed with certain types of weapons than they are about the criminals who would get access to these weapons despite their laws.<\/p>\n<p>The supporters who did call and left those harassing and threatening calls do a disservice. However, they do not represent the entire group that supports the Second Amendment.<\/p>\n<p>One common description that I get from the leftists that I argue against\u00a0has something to do with &#8220;mental issues&#8221;. The reality\u00a0is that folks like these have issues with &#8220;losing control&#8221; of the narrative.<\/p>\n<p>The Washington Examiner has more information on this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/democrat-says-second-amendment-supporters-in-virginia-have-mental-issues\">story<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State Senator Dave Marsden held a forum intended for &#8220;the youth&#8221;. A Second Amendment rights group showed up, &#8220;changing&#8221; the expected script of how this meeting was supposed to go. In the aftermath of the meeting, he claimed to have received many disturbing phone calls. Somehow, these phone calls &#8220;are&#8221; a &#8220;representation&#8221; of the entire [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,397],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-second-amendment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-oyA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=94400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94400\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=94400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=94400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=94400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}