{"id":61324,"date":"2016-12-14T06:00:31","date_gmt":"2016-12-14T12:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=61324"},"modified":"2016-12-14T08:09:00","modified_gmt":"2016-12-14T14:09:00","slug":"fake-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=61324","title":{"rendered":"Fake News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In New York City police precinct released this tweet over the weekend<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/img_0957.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-61323\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/img_0957.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/img_0957.jpg 750w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/img_0957-169x300.jpg 169w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/img_0957-576x1024.jpg 576w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>From the top, The &#8220;arsenal&#8221; includes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A toy musket, complete with orange &#8220;I am a toy!&#8221; Muzzle cap.<\/li>\n<li>A BB gun.<\/li>\n<li>An airsoft &#8220;shotgun&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>A couple of martial arts practice swords, most likely plastic<\/li>\n<li>On the right side \u2013 \u00a0a garden machete, available for $10 from any Walmart or garden store.<\/li>\n<li>And, tuckedin under the butt stock of the BB gun? A single, tiny, 25 caliber pistol, very likely nonfunctional.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We get it &#8211; it&#8217;s dangerous being a cop. \u00a0Weapons in the hands of ne&#8217;er-do-wells are a bad thing.<\/p>\n<p>But this sort of thing bespeaks one of two things:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Cops who don&#8217;t think much of their citizens<\/li>\n<li>Cops who are trying to suck up to political leadership who doesn&#8217;t think much of their citizens, and would like to see them all &#8220;disarmed&#8221;.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You know what&#8217;s got my vote.<\/p>\n<p>Dimes will get you dollars it fooled the average New Yorker and\/or &#8220;gun sense&#8221; ninny.<\/p>\n<p>:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In New York City police precinct released this tweet over the weekend From the top, The &#8220;arsenal&#8221; includes: A toy musket, complete with orange &#8220;I am a toy!&#8221; Muzzle cap. A BB gun. An airsoft &#8220;shotgun&#8221; A couple of martial arts practice swords, most likely plastic On the right side \u2013 \u00a0a garden machete, available [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-victim-disarmament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61324","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=61324"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61360,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61324\/revisions\/61360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}