{"id":56126,"date":"2015-11-16T08:00:50","date_gmt":"2015-11-16T14:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=56126"},"modified":"2015-11-16T08:41:09","modified_gmt":"2015-11-16T14:41:09","slug":"gundense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=56126","title":{"rendered":"#GunDense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve recently became aware of &#8220;Muggeridge&#8217;s Law&#8221; &#8211; I have an article coming up on the subject. \u00a0Muggeridge&#8217;s Law states that it&#8217;s impossible to be funny, since one&#8217;s most hamfistedly satirical &#8220;predictions&#8221; will inevitably be borne out in fact.<\/p>\n<p>When I first heard the news of the terrorist attacks in Paris, I thought &#8211; I kid you not &#8211; &#8220;some gun grabber group will blame this on the NRA&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Muggeridge reared his head; the ghouls at &#8220;Moms Want Action&#8221; struck over the weekend:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/MomsDemand\/status\/665294443638075392\/photo\/1\">http:\/\/twitter.com\/MomsDemand\/status\/665294443638075392\/photo\/1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I won&#8217;t bother asking if &#8220;Moms Want Action&#8221; is aware that the terrorists used plenty of explosives, or that their guns were the kind of fully-automatic AK47s that are illegal in Wyoming and Kansas, much less France, where the law-abiding citizen can&#8217;t easily get permission to\u00a0<em>own,\u00a0<\/em>much less carry, a handgun. \u00a0 They don&#8217;t know the difference, and if they did, they wouldn&#8217;t care, because their \u00a0goal isn&#8217;t to convince people who know what they&#8217;re talking about (99% of whom are pro-Second-Amendment), but rather to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=56095\">Lie First, Lie Last, Lie Always<\/a> to keep the uninformed in line.<\/p>\n<p>I won&#8217;t even ask if they&#8217;ve noticed that this is the the third major terrorist attack in gun-free Paris involving guns and explosives this year; the death toll among them all is hovering close to 150 &#8211; almost as bad as Chicago &#8211;\u00a0and there&#8217;s no way we&#8217;re done.<\/p>\n<p>The Twin Cities gun grabber groups don&#8217;t want a conversation, much less an open debate. \u00a0They <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=55801\">made this clear<\/a> last month.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m about done waiting for them to come\u00a0<em>to\u00a0<\/em>the debate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve recently became aware of &#8220;Muggeridge&#8217;s Law&#8221; &#8211; I have an article coming up on the subject. \u00a0Muggeridge&#8217;s Law states that it&#8217;s impossible to be funny, since one&#8217;s most hamfistedly satirical &#8220;predictions&#8221; will inevitably be borne out in fact. When I first heard the news of the terrorist attacks in Paris, I thought &#8211; I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,22,9,11],"tags":[338],"class_list":["post-56126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gun-free-zones","category-victim-disarmament","category-war-on-terror","category-world","tag-muggeridges-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56126","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=56126"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56128,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56126\/revisions\/56128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}