{"id":15168,"date":"2010-03-31T07:07:51","date_gmt":"2010-03-31T13:07:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=15168"},"modified":"2010-03-31T07:16:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-31T13:16:00","slug":"mullins-fears-militia-situation-will-be-used-to-take-americans%e2%80%99-guns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2010\/03\/mullins-fears-militia-situation-will-be-used-to-take-americans%e2%80%99-guns\/","title":{"rendered":"Mullins fears militia situation will be used to take Americans\u2019 guns"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Tom Mullins<\/p><\/div>\n

Republican 3rd Congressional District candidate Tom Mullins<\/a> says he wasn\u2019t making a statement of support for the recently arrested members of a Michigan-based militia group when he wrote in a blog posting<\/a> that the government is \u201cafter the militia\u201d but \u201cthe citizen militia is not the problem.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mullins made this statement on Monday in the blog posting on his campaign Web site:<\/p>\n

\u201cJanet Napolitano and the Federal Government are after the militia now. Don\u2019t fall for the media spin accusing Americans with guns as the problem.\u00a0When you disarm the American people that will be tyranny. We are all citizen soldiers and we will protect our nation when our government fails us.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Earlier this week, the Michigan militia members were arrested and charged with planning to kill police officers in the hopes of sparking an uprising<\/a> against the government.<\/p>\n

In his blog posting, Mullins stated that \u201cthe citizen militia is not the problem.\u00a0We are the solution to many of the challenges that face our nation.\u201d He encouraged people to \u201cPlease step forward to serve New Mexico and our great nation in whatever way that you can\u201d and mentioned \u201cvolunteering in your local community\u201d or church, donating blood or \u201cassisting a political campaign.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mullins wrote in an e-mail that his blog posting shouldn\u2019t be interpreted as support for those who were arrested. He said he was simply trying to convey his fear that the situation will be used to take guns out of the hands of law-abiding Americans.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy point is that sensationalism sells,\u201d Mullins wrote in the e-mail. \u201cThere are many instances where our government has gone after law abiding Americans for questionable reasons. I know of many folks who are concerned about being labeled domestic terrorists without due process.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cOur law enforcement folks do a difficult job, but oftentimes law abiding Americans get corralled by the media as militia,\u201d he wrote. \u201cOwning a gun is not a crime. Training with guns in the woods is not a crime.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI believe this Michigan matter like many others will be used by the gun control believers to disarm law abiding Americans. That is my fear,\u201d he wrote in the e-mail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Republican 3rd Congressional District candidate Tom Mullins says he wasn\u2019t making a statement of support for the recently arrested members of a Michigan-based militia group when he wrote in a blog posting that the government is \u201cafter the militia\u201d but \u201cthe citizen militia is not the problem.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1],"tags":[108,116],"class_list":["post-15168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","category-uncategorized","tag-2010-election","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}