{"id":69588,"date":"2018-12-28T06:00:39","date_gmt":"2018-12-28T12:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=69588"},"modified":"2018-12-28T07:49:30","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T13:49:30","slug":"promises-as-empty-as-a-fiberglass-tube","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=69588","title":{"rendered":"Promises As Empty As A Fiberglass Tube"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The city of Baltimore held a gun buy-back earlier this week.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They spent a bunch of money.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And the mayor thought she had something to crow about:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"509\" height=\"279\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Screen-Shot-2018-12-27-at-3.24.34-PM.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-69594\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Screen-Shot-2018-12-27-at-3.24.34-PM.png 509w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Screen-Shot-2018-12-27-at-3.24.34-PM-300x164.png 300w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Screen-Shot-2018-12-27-at-3.24.34-PM-500x274.png 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 509px) 100vw, 509px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>She did not. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Update: City of Baltimore paid $500 for this spent rocket launcher in its gun buyback. Military and ATF contacted for tracing <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/enlJcBUUHx\">pic.twitter.com\/enlJcBUUHx<\/a><\/p>\u2014 Jayne Miller (@jemillerwbal) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jemillerwbal\/status\/1076150365702230016?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 21, 2018<\/a><\/blockquote>\n<script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s a spent tube from a military &#8220;AT-4&#8221; anti-tank weapon.   I emphasize &#8211; spent.  It&#8217;s been fired &#8211; so all it really is now is a fiberglass tube with some miscellaneous parts and hardware.  The only thing it&#8217;ll ever launch is flowers &#8211; but only if you tip it up on end and fill it with dirt and seeds.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And <a href=\"https:\/\/www.buymilsurp.com\/m136-at4-anti-armor-weapon-inert-display-p-42716.html\">they can be had for about half what the city of Baltimore paid<\/a> for it &#8211; $500.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The city of Baltimore held a gun buy-back earlier this week. They spent a bunch of money. And the mayor thought she had something to crow about: She did not. Update: City of Baltimore paid $500 for this spent rocket launcher in its gun buyback. Military and ATF contacted for tracing pic.twitter.com\/enlJcBUUHx \u2014 Jayne Miller [&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-69588","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\/69588","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=69588"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69595,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69588\/revisions\/69595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}