{"id":56003,"date":"2015-11-05T06:54:47","date_gmt":"2015-11-05T12:54:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=56003"},"modified":"2015-11-05T06:54:47","modified_gmt":"2015-11-05T12:54:47","slug":"the-next-prohibition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=56003","title":{"rendered":"The Next Prohibition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>President Obama and Candidate Clinton suggest The Australian plan: ban possession of guns and ammo, buy-back from those who will voluntarily participate, and wait for attrition to eliminate the rest.<\/p>\n<p>How does this plan differ from the federal government&#8217;s treatment of cocaine, which has been banned for 101 years but remains widely available and reasonably priced?<\/p>\n<p>Put another way, which is harder to smuggle into the country: a pound of cocaine or a pound of bullets?<br \/>\nJoe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Obamas inability to learn from world history is legendary.<\/p>\n<p>Why would American history be any different?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: President Obama and Candidate Clinton suggest The Australian plan: ban possession of guns and ammo, buy-back from those who will voluntarily participate, and wait for attrition to eliminate the rest. How does this plan differ from the federal government&#8217;s treatment of cocaine, which has been banned for 101 years [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56003","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=56003"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56004,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56003\/revisions\/56004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}