{"id":65246,"date":"2017-12-01T05:00:27","date_gmt":"2017-12-01T11:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=65246"},"modified":"2017-11-26T16:42:48","modified_gmt":"2017-11-26T22:42:48","slug":"one-nation-divided-by-logic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=65246","title":{"rendered":"One Nation, Divided By Logic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Trump administration deletes 500,000 people from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/crime\/tens-of-thousands-with-outstanding-warrants-purged-from-background-check-database-for-gun-purchases\/ar-BBFvI5E?li=BBmkt5R&amp;ocid=spartandhp\">background check registry<\/a>.\u00a0 Gun controllers are frantic.<\/p>\n<p>Federal law prohibits gun sales to a \u201cfugitive from justice\u201d but what, exactly, does that mean?\u00a0 ATF said it meant somebody who crossed state lines to avoid prosecution.\u00a0 Massachusetts said it meant anybody with an outstanding warrant, even if it\u2019s for missing a court date over a traffic ticket, so they sent 430,000 names to the database.\u00a0 Trump went with the ATF definition covering a smaller group.<\/p>\n<p>This is the best line in the article:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I would imagine 99\u00a0percent of Americans don&#8217;t want people who have a warrant out on them to be able to buy a gun,&#8221; Chipman said. &#8220;I can&#8217;t believe there is a constituency for wanted people. Wanted people are particularly dangerous. <strong>They&#8217;ve already proven that they&#8217;ll break the law<\/strong>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Really?\u00a0 You want to use that logic?\u00a0 Okay, let\u2019s talk about illegal immigration and why we ought to round up every single one to ship them back.<\/p>\n<p>Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>No, they don&#8217;t want to apply the logic.\u00a0 They want to gull the gullible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Trump administration deletes 500,000 people from the background check registry.\u00a0 Gun controllers are frantic. Federal law prohibits gun sales to a \u201cfugitive from justice\u201d but what, exactly, does that mean?\u00a0 ATF said it meant somebody who crossed state lines to avoid prosecution.\u00a0 Massachusetts said it meant anybody with an [&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-65246","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\/65246","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=65246"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65251,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65246\/revisions\/65251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}