{"id":63434,"date":"2017-06-12T06:00:01","date_gmt":"2017-06-12T11:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=63434"},"modified":"2017-06-10T07:53:35","modified_gmt":"2017-06-10T12:53:35","slug":"the-conversation-about-guns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=63434","title":{"rendered":"The &#8220;Conversation About Guns&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just remember &#8211; when the gun-grabbing left says they want a &#8220;conversation about guns&#8221;, what they mean is &#8220;they talk, scream, defame, slander and insulit; you listen&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Aw, Mitch &#8211; you&#8217;re just being hyperbolic&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Nope. \u00a0If only.<\/p>\n<p>The Minneapolis College of Art and Design is hosting an &#8220;art&#8221; exhibit entitled &#8220;Unloaded&#8221; &#8211; styled as &#8220;a nationally traveling multimedia group exhibition that explores the historic and social issues surrounding the divisive nature of gun ownership in the United States.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s look at their idea of history and social studies via &#8220;art&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; overflow: hidden;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fgunownersmn%2Fvideos%2F770958729740287%2F&amp;show_text=0&amp;width=711\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Yep. It&#8217;s a figure of&#8230;something with a pistol for genitals.<\/p>\n<p>The exhibit&#8217;s hoarder &#8211; well, OK, &#8220;curator&#8221; &#8211; says her ambition is to melt down all guns.<\/p>\n<p>This is the &#8220;conversation&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>(Response: \u00a0&#8220;What is it about firearms that instantly, inevitably turns your thoughts to genitals?)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just remember &#8211; when the gun-grabbing left says they want a &#8220;conversation about guns&#8221;, what they mean is &#8220;they talk, scream, defame, slander and insulit; you listen&#8221;. &#8220;Aw, Mitch &#8211; you&#8217;re just being hyperbolic&#8221;. Nope. \u00a0If only. The Minneapolis College of Art and Design is hosting an &#8220;art&#8221; exhibit entitled &#8220;Unloaded&#8221; &#8211; styled as &#8220;a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63434","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=63434"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63437,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63434\/revisions\/63437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}