{"id":45175,"date":"2014-06-22T07:30:51","date_gmt":"2014-06-22T12:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=45175"},"modified":"2014-06-22T08:07:40","modified_gmt":"2014-06-22T13:07:40","slug":"doakes-sunday-previews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=45175","title":{"rendered":"Doakes Sunday:  Previews"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If you want to see where American Liberals will be in a few years, look at British Liberals.<\/p>\n<p>Guns already are banned but violence continues so now mandatory six months jail for second conviction for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2014\/jun\/17\/knife-crime-clampdown-commons-backing\">carrying a knife<\/a>. All the usual arguments about whether it\u2019s harsh enough, prison overcrowding, effect on gang violence, etc.<\/p>\n<p>No concept that giving ordinary citizens the power to fight back in self-defense might be a long-term better strategy for social order.<\/p>\n<p>Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Not only that, but self-defense itself is becoming illegal.<\/p>\n<p>But let&#8217;s be fair; the US was headed the same direction 30-40 years ago. \u00a0The good guys &#8211; that&#8217;d be you and me &#8211; fought back and pushed the needle back toward freedom.<\/p>\n<p>We need to do it again, and in many, many more areas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: If you want to see where American Liberals will be in a few years, look at British Liberals. Guns already are banned but violence continues so now mandatory six months jail for second conviction for carrying a knife. All the usual arguments about whether it\u2019s harsh enough, prison overcrowding, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[269,22,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grass-roots","category-victim-disarmament","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45175","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=45175"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45214,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45175\/revisions\/45214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}