{"id":35504,"date":"2013-04-02T08:06:46","date_gmt":"2013-04-02T13:06:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=35504"},"modified":"2013-04-02T08:07:02","modified_gmt":"2013-04-02T13:07:02","slug":"more-of-this-please-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=35504","title":{"rendered":"Expand The Pack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8220;Armed Citizen Project&#8221; &#8211; which we <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=34462\">talked about<\/a> a month or two back &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/dfw.cbslocal.com\/2013\/04\/01\/free-guns-for-high-crime-neighborhoods\/2\/\">is expanding from Dallas to Houston<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Armed Citizen Project is raising money to give free guns to residents living in high-crime areas and to single women \u2014 so they can defend themselves against criminals.<\/p>\n<p>Based in Houston\u2013 the group now wants to expand to Dallas.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt sounds good but you have to be careful,\u201d said [crappy-Dallas-neighborhood-resident Calvin] Carter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s good to be able to have weapons in case something happens to you or your family when you\u2019re not there, that weapon could save them.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s not just a gun giveaway:<em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In order to get a free gun you have to pass a background check and complete a safety training course.<\/p>\n<p>You also have to have lived at your current address for at least a year.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course, not everyone gets it:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThat appalls me completely,\u201d said [obvious babbling idiot] Lynne Weber [seriously, watch the video; she couldn&#8217;t fit the stereotype of the babbling middle-class ignorant white anti-gun woman if she were carrying an MPR coffee mug and wearing an alpaca scarf and driving a Volvo &#8211; or if she were Heather Martens, I suppose]. \u201cI\u2019m against having guns in our society. I want gun control. I think doing that would not empower women but endanger them and everyone around them.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Watch for the media to scour the web for any errors on the parts of beneficiaries of the program &#8211; and to studiously ignore or bury any positive results.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8220;Armed Citizen Project&#8221; &#8211; which we talked about a month or two back &#8211; is expanding from Dallas to Houston: The Armed Citizen Project is raising money to give free guns to residents living in high-crime areas and to single women \u2014 so they can defend themselves against criminals. Based in Houston\u2013 the group [&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":[],"class_list":["post-35504","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\/35504","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=35504"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35506,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35504\/revisions\/35506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}