{"id":33404,"date":"2013-01-14T04:59:14","date_gmt":"2013-01-14T10:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=33404"},"modified":"2013-01-14T06:29:12","modified_gmt":"2013-01-14T12:29:12","slug":"33404","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=33404","title":{"rendered":"There Are Two Americas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Edwards was right; there are two Americas; one that has to follow the regular laws, and one for the <em>big\u00a0<\/em>people.<\/p>\n<p>NBC&#8217;s David Gregory <a href=\"http:\/\/legalinsurrection.com\/2013\/01\/david-gregory-will-not-be-prosecuted\/\">skates<\/a> on his &#8220;30 round magazine&#8217; pratfall.<\/p>\n<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u00a0It seems to me that if there was a clear violation of the law, then the Prosecutor should prosecute it. The arguments in mitigation (clean record) go toward the sentence.<\/p>\n<p>Take it in another context \u2013 suppose I went to a school and threatened to shoot a bunch of schoolchildren with a .22 revolver, then claimed I did it to make a point about the silliness of the assault weapons bill. I have a clean record. I was making a political point. I only threatened them for a short time. I passed up other options to make my point. Should I get a pass as David Gregory did?<\/p>\n<p>Or is the \u201cbreak-the-law free\u201d card only for Democrat VIPs?<\/p>\n<p>Joe Doakes<\/p>\n<p>Como Park<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>On guns?<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the VIP thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Edwards was right; there are two Americas; one that has to follow the regular laws, and one for the big\u00a0people. NBC&#8217;s David Gregory skates on his &#8220;30 round magazine&#8217; pratfall. Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: \u00a0It seems to me that if there was a clear violation of the law, then the Prosecutor should [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-and-punishment","category-victim-disarmament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33404","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=33404"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33406,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33404\/revisions\/33406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}