Remember when the left thought Sarah Palin’s jaunty “I’m Not Retreating, I’m Reloading” was a lethal threat?<\/p>\n
I know; any human being with an IQ above plant life knew that the left was being drama-queeny at best, cynically manipulating an argument for low-information voters at worst.<\/p>\n
Beyond that? \u00a0It was Berg’s Seventh Law<\/a> in action. \u00a0Because while there’s not a psychopath simmering inside every liberal, or even most, it’s an ideology that promotes and rewards it.<\/p>\n As with this “guy”:<\/p>\n I guess I’ll rethink my request of @letargets<\/a> for a @maryfranson<\/a> (don’t worry, Mary, I just throw used gum). #noguns<\/a>po.st\/ffMEnx<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Richard Molby (@rvm4) February 20, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n @LETargets is, of course “Law Enforcement Targets<\/a>“, a Minnesota company that’s gotten flak<\/a> for making custom targets of armed children, senior citizens and pregnant women, to help de-sensitize police officers to the idea of shooting to kill any of them.<\/p>\n The police’s current focus on “officer safety” at the expense of “citizens’ safety” is certainly worth discussing.<\/p>\n Desensitizing people to killing conservative legislators? \u00a0It’s worth condemning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Remember when the left thought Sarah Palin’s jaunty “I’m Not Retreating, I’m Reloading” was a lethal threat? I know; any human being with an IQ above plant life knew that the left was being drama-queeny at best, cynically manipulating an argument for low-information voters at worst. Beyond that? \u00a0It was Berg’s Seventh Law in action. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,51],"tags":[243],"class_list":["post-34412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lefty-alt-media","category-liberal-tyranny","tag-bergs-7th-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34412","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=34412"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34414,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34412\/revisions\/34414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}