{"id":69656,"date":"2019-01-10T05:00:30","date_gmt":"2019-01-10T11:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=69656"},"modified":"2019-01-07T09:46:17","modified_gmt":"2019-01-07T15:46:17","slug":"69656","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=69656","title":{"rendered":"When All You Have Is A Hammer&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/gun-use-surges-in-europe-where-firearms-are-rare-11546857000\" target=\"_blank\">Gun use surges in Europe<\/a>, where guns are rare.&nbsp; What could be the cause of this?&nbsp;<br>The article is a shambles.&nbsp; It throws women afraid of being raped into the same bag as South American terrorists and Eastern European refugees \u2013 they all want guns and guns hurt people so guns are bad.&nbsp;<br>The author\u2019s inability to distinguish between citizens who desire guns for lawful self-defense in response to government unwillingness to crack down on refugee violence, versus the Muslims shooting up markets or the narcotics gangs killing judges and policemen, makes an analysis impossible and the proposed solutions worthless.<br>Is clear thinking really so hard to come by, these days?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>On today&#8217;s left?  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rhetorical question, right? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Gun use surges in Europe, where guns are rare.&nbsp; What could be the cause of this?&nbsp;The article is a shambles.&nbsp; It throws women afraid of being raped into the same bag as South American terrorists and Eastern European refugees \u2013 they all want guns and guns hurt people so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tc-media-bias","category-victim-disarmament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69656","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=69656"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69660,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69656\/revisions\/69660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}