{"id":59266,"date":"2016-06-22T11:30:59","date_gmt":"2016-06-22T16:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=59266"},"modified":"2016-06-20T07:22:34","modified_gmt":"2016-06-20T12:22:34","slug":"one-for-your-mental-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=59266","title":{"rendered":"One For Your Mental Library"},"content":{"rendered":"

I commend this article – Why I “Need” An AR15″,<\/a> from the left-leaning “Medium”, by apparently left-leaning writer Jon Stokes – to all of you who have an interest in the Second Amendment, pro\u00a0or\u00a0<\/em>con.<\/p>\n

Those of you who oppose the Second Amendment – or even just “assault weapons” – should read it to unlearn some of the complete fabulism that a sloppy and incurious (at best) media has brought to the subject.<\/p>\n

Those of you who support the Second Amendment can fill in your intellectual war chest with some new arguments; as, indeed, I did.<\/p>\n

For that matter, the disclaimer at the beginning is pure gold:<\/p>\n

…some 5 million Americans<\/a> have decided that they do, in fact, \u201cneed\u201d an AR-15. Are all of these people bloodthirsty savages? Delusional survivalists? Military fetishists? Insecure men with tiny\u2026 hands?<\/p>\n

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If you\u2019re prepared to answer \u2018yes\u2019 to all of the above and consider the case closed, then please move on and don\u2019t read anymore. This article isn\u2019t my attempt to justify anything to you\u200a\u2014\u200ait\u2019s not a defense of what\u2019s in my gun safe or of the AR-15 itself. If, for you, my AR-15 ownership is prima facie\u00a0<\/em>evidence of my mental instability, sexual inadequacy, lack of a conscience, or what-have-you, then I honestly don\u2019t care what you think about this issue. You can go back to broadcasting your own moral superiority on social media, and I can go back to tuning you out until your rage therapy session is over.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

(Nota bene: <\/em>While my comment section is intended to be a vibrant, diverse conversation reflecting many points of view, comments\u00a0I deem to reflect the point of view in the second-to-last sentence – AKA “stupid” comments – will be deleted without fanfare. \u00a0Disagree with me all you want. \u00a0Do it stupidly in almost every other post on this blog, past, present or future. \u00a0 But not here. \u00a0 That is all).<\/p>\n

Worth a read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I commend this article – Why I “Need” An AR15″, from the left-leaning “Medium”, by apparently left-leaning writer Jon Stokes – to all of you who have an interest in the Second Amendment, pro\u00a0or\u00a0con. Those of you who oppose the Second Amendment – or even just “assault weapons” – should read it to unlearn some […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[269,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grass-roots","category-victim-disarmament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59266","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=59266"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59270,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59266\/revisions\/59270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}