{"id":66385,"date":"2018-03-23T07:29:13","date_gmt":"2018-03-23T12:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=66385"},"modified":"2018-03-23T07:29:13","modified_gmt":"2018-03-23T12:29:13","slug":"theyre-coming-for-a-lot-more-than-your-guns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=66385","title":{"rendered":"They&#8217;re Coming For A Lot More Than Your Guns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national\/after-his-family-died-he-threatened-to-kill-himself-so-the-police-took-his-guns\/2018\/03\/17\/38e3138e-26e6-11e8-874b-d517e912f125_story.html\">The story of how the court can seize a person\u2019s guns based on one quip alone<\/a> is bad enough, but I have two more thoughts:<br \/>\nWhen the cops seize your guns, do they run the serial numbers to see if they\u2019re stolen; or test-fire them and run ballistics to see if they were used in a crime? If not, why not; and if so, what happens to the value of your never-fired-new-in-the-box John Wayne Peacemaker when they fire it and who makes good on that?<br \/>\nSecond, assume the Liberal psychological explanation is correct \u2013 gun owners are compensating for having a small penis. In that case, taking away my guns would be physiological castration. If I were a gun owner considering seeking mental health treatment but the price I\u2019d have to pay would be castration, you can forget about it.<br \/>\n\u201cBut it\u2019s for your own good.\u201d That\u2019s what they told the tomcat. He didn\u2019t like it either, but he had no choice. I do. If you want to reduce the number of men killing themselves with guns, you must find an incentive for them to accept treatment. Loss of manhood is not it.<br \/>\nJoe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Put it another way:\u00a0 \u00a0even back in the seventies, psychologists (in general) knew that telling homosexual children to not act gay was profoundly psychologically damaging; telling someone &#8220;don&#8217;t be what you are&#8221; is an invite for decades of misery.<\/p>\n<p>Fair enough.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Defend myself, those who depend on me, and my community&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=66276\">is as we discussed the other day a primary evolutionary imperative for men<\/a>, and firearms are almost always the best way to do that.\u00a0 Forget about japes about penis size &#8211; those are for people who are compensating for lousy comedic chops.\u00a0 Disarming someone is an attack on what evolution tells them to be.<\/p>\n<p>What could go wrong?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: The story of how the court can seize a person\u2019s guns based on one quip alone is bad enough, but I have two more thoughts: When the cops seize your guns, do they run the serial numbers to see if they\u2019re stolen; or test-fire them and run ballistics to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-universe-and-everything","category-victim-disarmament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66385","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=66385"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66386,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66385\/revisions\/66386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}