{"id":60342,"date":"2016-09-23T06:00:29","date_gmt":"2016-09-23T11:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=60342"},"modified":"2016-09-20T12:18:18","modified_gmt":"2016-09-20T17:18:18","slug":"so-let-me-get-this-straight-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=60342","title":{"rendered":"So Let Me Get This Straight"},"content":{"rendered":"

Australia bans vast swathes of political and cosmetically inconvenient guns – drawing the favorable attention of Barack Obama and Hillary Herself.<\/p>\n

Thing is, Australia never really had a “gun problem”. \u00a0They had a couple of mass shootings, to which the political class responded with pure emotion.<\/p>\n

And now? \u00a0Years after they banned most politically-charged weapons? \u00a0Well, who’da thunk it, they have a gun problem<\/a>.<\/p>\n

(The kind where criminals have guns, and use them on each other and on their innocent victims. \u00a0Not the “law-abiding citizens can protect themselves” kind of “gun problem” that so exercises Minnesota’s “gun safety” community).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Australia bans vast swathes of political and cosmetically inconvenient guns – drawing the favorable attention of Barack Obama and Hillary Herself. Thing is, Australia never really had a “gun problem”. \u00a0They had a couple of mass shootings, to which the political class responded with pure emotion. And now? \u00a0Years after they banned most politically-charged weapons? […]<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gun-free-zones","category-victim-disarmament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60342","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=60342"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60343,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60342\/revisions\/60343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}