{"id":55710,"date":"2015-10-15T07:57:08","date_gmt":"2015-10-15T12:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=55710"},"modified":"2015-10-15T08:42:06","modified_gmt":"2015-10-15T13:42:06","slug":"a-tale-of-two-states-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=55710","title":{"rendered":"A Tale Of Two States"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a time when actual, intentional violence is actually proliferating, Israel is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.algemeiner.com\/2015\/10\/14\/israel-relaxes-gun-control-amid-surge-in-terrorist-attacks\/#\">relaxing its ill-advised attempts at gun control<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently scenes like these&#8230;:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5gl-HzgpMBo\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;in a nation in which &#8220;genocide&#8221; is within living memory have an effect, and unlike certain Americans, that effect is not &#8220;be an idiot&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of which &#8211; in a nation in which violent crime is falling and has been for twenty years, a candidate for governor of our largest state is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/news\/politics-government\/capitol-alert\/article39234468.html\">pressing for&#8230;more useless &#8220;gun safety&#8221; security theater<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom on Thursday will introduce a measure for next year\u2019s ballot that aims to stanch the proliferation of gun violence, including a provision to require ammunition buyers to undergo background checks&#8230;In the last 72 hours \u2013 68 people have been killed and 129 people have been injured due to gun violence in America,\u201d Newsom wrote online Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>His measure, which requires nearly 366,000 signatures to qualify for next year\u2019s ballot, incorporates provisions of bills that stalled at the state Capitol. It would ban the possession of large-capacity magazines \u2013 more than 10 rounds \u2013 and require anyone who currently has them to sell to a licensed firearm dealer, transfer them out of state or relinquish them to law enforcement to be disposed of.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>None of which, naturally, would have prevented any of the &#8220;gun violence&#8221; about which Newsom spoke.<\/p>\n<p>Gun control is to violence as the TSA is to terrorism; a lot of frenetic, intrusive activity that does nothing useful, because it&#8217;s not intended to do anything but provide the illusion of dooooooooooing something.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a time when actual, intentional violence is actually proliferating, Israel is relaxing its ill-advised attempts at gun control. Apparently scenes like these&#8230;: &#8230;in a nation in which &#8220;genocide&#8221; is within living memory have an effect, and unlike certain Americans, that effect is not &#8220;be an idiot&#8221;. Speaking of which &#8211; in a nation 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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55710","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=55710"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55712,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55710\/revisions\/55712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}