{"id":32816,"date":"2012-12-21T12:30:45","date_gmt":"2012-12-21T18:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=32816"},"modified":"2012-12-21T11:05:42","modified_gmt":"2012-12-21T17:05:42","slug":"the-new-conversation-about-guns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=32816","title":{"rendered":"The New Conversation About Guns"},"content":{"rendered":"

The next time some Harvard-addled chanting-point-bot wants to declaim about the need for a “conversation about guns” – which, as we all know, means “a monologue about guns, with we 2nd Amendment types shutting up and speaking when spoken to” – I’m tempted to take the “conversation” more in this sort of direction.<\/p>\n

“Here’s why I own guns: \u00a0because people like this were disarmed:<\/p>\n

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Stores burning after UK riots. Hey, at least the store owners couldn’t defend themselves!<\/p><\/div>\n

“These people – well, former people – too:”<\/p>\n

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Mass graves in Srebrenica, Bosnia. Goodness knows how bad it’d have been if the hundreds of victims had been able to defend themselves, rather than rely on the Dutch “Peace-Keepers” who ran like scared bunnies.<\/p><\/div>\n

Or here:<\/p>\n

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Mass grave in Chicago. No, it’s Cambodia. You’ve seen one “gun free zone” full of disarmed civilians, you’ve seen ’em all. The Cambodians, like the black children of Chicago, had the bad luck not to be white, suburban, and big Democrat contributors.<\/p><\/div>\n

Or here:<\/p>\n

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It’s Darfur. Remember them?<\/p><\/div>\n

How about here?:<\/p>\n

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Hey, Amitai Etzioni! \u00a0It’s a gun-free home!<\/p><\/div>\n

Or these people:<\/p>\n

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Victims of the Chinese government at Tienanmen Square. Hey, in a couple of years, we won’t be able to insult our Chicom overlords anymore! Thanks, President Obama!<\/p><\/div>\n

More people without guns:<\/p>\n

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Russian Gulag inmates. Men, women, children. Dead! Stalin – darling of the New York Times? Now he<\/em> knew how not to waste a crisis!<\/p><\/div>\n

“I could go on, but you get the idea.”<\/p>\n

“That’s\u00a0<\/em>why I own guns. \u00a0I don’t give a rat’s ass about hunting. ”<\/p>\n

“So if your idea is to disarm me, the law-abiding citizen, because of the misdeeds of someone I’d have happily shot with one or another legally-permitted firearm, here’s the “conversation about guns” we’re going to have…”<\/p>\n

“YOU: \u00a0“Shut up and let’s “converse” about the need to disarm you, Mr. Berg”<\/p>\n

“ME: \u00a0Go f**k yourself”<\/p>\n

“YOU: \u00a0“With what appendage, sir?”<\/p>\n

“How are you liking the “conversation” so far?”<\/p>\n

No, I’m not going to do it. \u00a0But I thought I’d share it, just between us. \u00a0It’s fun to think about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The next time some Harvard-addled chanting-point-bot wants to declaim about the need for a “conversation about guns” – which, as we all know, means “a monologue about guns, with we 2nd Amendment types shutting up and speaking when spoken to” – I’m tempted to take the “conversation” more in this sort of direction. “Here’s why […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-victim-disarmament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32816"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32871,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32816\/revisions\/32871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}