{"id":64348,"date":"2017-08-28T17:02:40","date_gmt":"2017-08-28T22:02:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=64348"},"modified":"2017-08-28T17:02:40","modified_gmt":"2017-08-28T22:02:40","slug":"the-marquis-of-queensbury-has-left-the-building","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=64348","title":{"rendered":"The Marquis Of Queensbury Has Left The Building"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Grandfather of teens who killed after breaking into a man&#8217;s house, threatening his life and health, <a href=\"http:\/\/americanlookout.com\/arps-what-grandfather-of-teen-killed-by-homeowner-in-armed-burglary-says-ar-15-made-for-unfair-fight\/\">complains that the homeowner had an &#8220;unfair advantage&#8221;<\/a> in the three-on-one fight because he had an AR15:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>They got into a confrontation with the man who owned the home. Moments later the homeowner\u2019s son emerged with an AR-15 and\u00a0killed all three criminals.<\/p>\n<p>Now the grandfather of one of the criminals is saying it wasn\u2019t fair that the homeowner had an AR-15.<\/p>\n<p>He says that it gave the homeowner an unfair advantage.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Oh, no. \u00a0One middle-class schlub has an advantage over three thugs who came equipped to deal him a three-on-one beatdown. \u00a0 How horrible.<\/p>\n<p>That is, of course,\u00a0<em>the point<\/em> behind &#8220;assault weapons&#8221;; to not run out of bullets before your enemy runs out of attacks.<\/p>\n<p>(<strong>Disclaimer for the record<\/strong>: \u00a0I would never shoot a human, even in self-defense, and I&#8217;d never own a gun, because they terrify me).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grandfather of teens who killed after breaking into a man&#8217;s house, threatening his life and health, complains that the homeowner had an &#8220;unfair advantage&#8221; in the three-on-one fight because he had an AR15: They got into a confrontation with the man who owned the home. Moments later the homeowner\u2019s son emerged with an AR-15 and\u00a0killed [&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":[265],"class_list":["post-64348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-victim-disarmament","tag-self-defense"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64348","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=64348"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64349,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64348\/revisions\/64349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}