{"id":35650,"date":"2013-04-09T08:30:57","date_gmt":"2013-04-09T13:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=35650"},"modified":"2013-04-09T08:38:24","modified_gmt":"2013-04-09T13:38:24","slug":"this-is-what-democracy-looks-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=35650","title":{"rendered":"<i>This<\/i> Is What Democracy Looks Like"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the four months since Sandy Hook and the Administration&#8217;s declaration of war on the law-abiding gun owner, <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424127887324883604578398843653264474.html#project%3DGUNSTATES20130404%26articleTabs%3Dinteractive\">twice as many states have strengthened their observance of the Second Amendment<\/a> as have weakened it.<\/p>\n<p>Although note that the\u00a0Wall Street Journal\u00a0article on the subject and its attendant illustrations&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424127887324883604578398843653264474.html#project%3DGUNSTATES20130404%26articleTabs%3Dinteractive\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/media\/GUNSTATES_thurs2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"959\" height=\"361\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;invert the meanings of &#8220;strengthen&#8221; and &#8220;weaken&#8221;, in their New York-centered way.<\/p>\n<p>And yet the media continues to claim astronomical percentages of the people support anti-gun legislation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the four months since Sandy Hook and the Administration&#8217;s declaration of war on the law-abiding gun owner, twice as many states have strengthened their observance of the Second Amendment as have weakened it. Although note that the\u00a0Wall Street Journal\u00a0article on the subject and its attendant illustrations&#8230; &#8230;invert the meanings of &#8220;strengthen&#8221; and &#8220;weaken&#8221;, in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","category-victim-disarmament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35650","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=35650"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35662,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35650\/revisions\/35662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}