{"id":46563,"date":"2014-08-19T16:43:24","date_gmt":"2014-08-19T21:43:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=46563"},"modified":"2014-08-20T06:40:17","modified_gmt":"2014-08-20T11:40:17","slug":"our-douchebag-opposition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=46563","title":{"rendered":"Our Douchebag Opposition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anti-NRA &#8220;Daily Beast&#8221; writer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/articles\/2014\/08\/19\/why-isn-t-the-nra-defending-ferguson-s-blacks.html\">wonders<\/a> why the NRA &#8211; which famously rails against domestic overreach &#8211; isn&#8217;t defending black people in Ferguson Missouri (with the not-so-muted conclusion that it&#8217;s all in the racism).<\/p>\n<p>The real answer: \u00a0for the same reason the National Organization of Women isn&#8217;t protesting against whaling.<\/p>\n<p>The NRA focuses like a laser beam on the Second Amendment.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ll note &#8211; although the &#8220;Daily Beast&#8221; writer does not &#8211; that the NRA supported to the hilt the action by Otis McDonald, which led to the Supreme Court incorporating the Second Amendment as a &#8220;right of the people&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Odd how that got forgotten.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anti-NRA &#8220;Daily Beast&#8221; writer wonders why the NRA &#8211; which famously rails against domestic overreach &#8211; isn&#8217;t defending black people in Ferguson Missouri (with the not-so-muted conclusion that it&#8217;s all in the racism). The real answer: \u00a0for the same reason the National Organization of Women isn&#8217;t protesting against whaling. The NRA focuses like a laser [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,63,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-war","category-lefty-alt-media","category-tc-media-bias"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46563","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=46563"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46566,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46563\/revisions\/46566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}