{"id":3750,"date":"2008-12-05T06:02:55","date_gmt":"2008-12-05T11:02:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3750"},"modified":"2008-12-05T06:02:55","modified_gmt":"2008-12-05T11:02:55","slug":"i-cant-wait-until-single-payer-healthcare-smacks-into-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3750","title":{"rendered":"I Can&#8217;t Wait Until Single-Payer Healthcare Smacks Into <i>This<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since keeping and bearing arms is an <em>individual right<\/em>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;and disability must not get in the way of our rights&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;then the time is obviously right for this new\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/idle.slashdot.org\/idle\/08\/12\/04\/0433234.shtml\">prescription handgun<\/a>\u00a0for the elderly and disabled:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;the inventors of the Palm Pistol are planning to change all that with a weapon that is ideal for both the elderly and the physically disabled. In a statement submitted to Medgadget, the manufacturer, Constitution Arms, has revealed the following: &#8216;We thought you might be interested to learn that the FDA has completed its &#8220;Device\/Not a Device&#8221; determination and concluded the handgun will be listed as a Class I Medical Device.&#8217; Physicians will be able to prescribe the Palm Pistol for qualified patients who may seek reimbursement through Medicare or private health insurance companies.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>On the one hand, I&#8217;m not sure about the ergonomics of this particular piece, to the point where I almost wonder if it&#8217;s a hoax.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Also, it&#8217;d seem that it&#8217;s a single-shot piece, so that disabled\/elderly person had best be a pretty confident self-defense marksman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since keeping and bearing arms is an individual right&#8230; &#8230;and disability must not get in the way of our rights&#8230; &#8230;then the time is obviously right for this new\u00a0prescription handgun\u00a0for the elderly and disabled: &#8230;the inventors of the Palm Pistol are planning to change all that with a weapon that is ideal for both the [&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-3750","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\/3750","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=3750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3750\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}