{"id":33394,"date":"2013-01-12T08:00:38","date_gmt":"2013-01-12T14:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=33394"},"modified":"2020-12-21T05:29:35","modified_gmt":"2020-12-21T11:29:35","slug":"todays-palate-cleanser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=33394","title":{"rendered":"Today&#8217;s Palate-Cleanser"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As tireless a defender of the Second Amendment as I am, I do much prefer the times when the lefty politicians waste their crises once and for all, and just leave us alone.<\/p>\n<p>But we&#8217;re not there. \u00a0Not yet.<\/p>\n<p>So as a bit of a weekend mental\u00a0<em>apertif<\/em>, I though I&#8217;d run the two Second Amendment videos of the week.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;re below the jump (because one of them seems to launch automatically)<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The first? \u00a0Ben Shapiro beating Piers &#8220;The Musketeer&#8221; Morgan like a baby seal:<\/p>\n<p>z<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/widget.newsinc.com\/single.html?WID=1&amp;VID=24207869&amp;freewheel=69016&amp;sitesection=breitbartprivate&amp;w=594&amp;h=334\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"594\" height=\"334\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Because when Real Americans argue the Second Amendment, we have two legs to argue on:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>We have the law on our side<\/li>\n<li>We have the facts on our side &#8211; and we universally do<\/li>\n<li>We&#8217;re smarter than our opposition, and anyone watching the debate knows it<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>If we fall short on any of them &#8211; as Alex Jones, predictably, did with #3 &#8211; then we might as well not have any of them. Because that&#8217;s the way it&#8217;ll be portrayed.<\/p>\n<p>The next one? Stewart Mills of Mills Fleet Farm (a regional chain of stores selling everything from farming and livestock supplies to guns, hunting gear, cold-weather clothing and guns and ammo) explains to our uninformed, meme-spewing Congresspeople Nolan, Franken and Klobuchar what any shooter knows &#8211; the AR15 is no deadlier than a lot of common hunting firearms:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/w0o7YgiTFm4\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The duck gun is more powerful than the AR, especially up close. The AR15 is not &#8220;built to kill people as quickly as possible&#8221;, any gunny knows; it&#8217;s designed to function when covered in mud or sand or snow, and overheated, and to have a few bullets left when your enemy has stopped attacking you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As tireless a defender of the Second Amendment as I am, I do much prefer the times when the lefty politicians waste their crises once and for all, and just leave us alone. But we&#8217;re not there. \u00a0Not yet. So as a bit of a weekend mental\u00a0apertif, I though I&#8217;d run the two Second Amendment [&hellip;]<\/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":[208],"class_list":["post-33394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-victim-disarmament","tag-a-klo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33394","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=33394"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76165,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33394\/revisions\/76165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}