{"id":59153,"date":"2016-06-13T07:00:59","date_gmt":"2016-06-13T12:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=59153"},"modified":"2016-06-11T21:53:08","modified_gmt":"2016-06-12T02:53:08","slug":"separation-of-powers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=59153","title":{"rendered":"Separation Of Powers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a reason our founding fathers put an ironclad separation between the state and the military.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI believe that our Constitution affords responsible Americans the right to own guns, but we need to keep dangerous people from having easy access to guns. Felons, domestic abusers, even known terrorists can buy a gun here without something as simple as a criminal background check. This has to stop,\u201d retired Marine Brig. Gen. Stephen Cheney said in a statement. \u201cOur laws don\u2019t support responsible gun ownership, and far too often guns fall into the hands of dangerous, irresponsible people.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif; font-style: normal; line-height: 1.625;\">And, Gen. Cheney, when you tell us how it is that background checks will stop criminals, by all means let us know. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And if there&#8217;s any talk of &#8220;terror watch lists&#8221;, clearly you didn&#8217;t know much about that &#8220;Freedom&#8221; stuff you were sworn to defend. \u00a0Sorry, Generals McCrystal and Petraeus; your input is not required, here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a reason our founding fathers put an ironclad separation between the state and the military. \u201cI believe that our Constitution affords responsible Americans the right to own guns, but we need to keep dangerous people from having easy access to guns. Felons, domestic abusers, even known terrorists can buy a gun here without something [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","category-victim-disarmament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59153","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=59153"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59154,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59153\/revisions\/59154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}