{"id":59822,"date":"2016-08-05T05:00:49","date_gmt":"2016-08-05T10:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=59822"},"modified":"2016-08-05T07:23:38","modified_gmt":"2016-08-05T12:23:38","slug":"59822","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=59822","title":{"rendered":"Dilemma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">I have a dilemma.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">On one hand, I hate to support <a href=\"https:\/\/www.puc-mn.org\/art-my-weapon\"><span class=\"s2\">gun buy-back programs<\/span><\/a> because they\u2019re a waste of money on feel-good foolishness that will have absolutely no effect on crime. \u00a0This one is especially idiotic because the sponsor \u2013 Pillsbury \u2013 plans to turn the guns into \u201cart\u201d which means there\u2019s also a subsidy to some \u201cartist\u201d to produce junk nobody would ever pay to see.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">On the other hand, I have an old .22 pistol that I bought for $100 and rarely use; they\u2019ll give me $200 for it at the buy-back.\u00a0 There might be other impulse buys and relics in the gun safe.\u00a0 I could free up shelf space at higher-than-market prices and use the money to buy a gun I really want.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The Pillsbury Doughboy wants to give me a free assault rifle.\u00a0 How can I turn that down?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">It\u2019s a dilemma.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">Joe Doakes<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\">It&#8217;s tempting. \u00a0Oh, yes, it is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: I have a dilemma.\u00a0 \u00a0On one hand, I hate to support gun buy-back programs because they\u2019re a waste of money on feel-good foolishness that will have absolutely no effect on crime. \u00a0This one is especially idiotic because the sponsor \u2013 Pillsbury \u2013 plans to turn the guns into \u201cart\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[325],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-gun-control"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59822","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=59822"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59827,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59822\/revisions\/59827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}