{"id":69891,"date":"2019-02-01T11:00:03","date_gmt":"2019-02-01T17:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=69891"},"modified":"2019-02-01T12:32:36","modified_gmt":"2019-02-01T18:32:36","slug":"a-conservative-is-a-liberal-thats-been-mugged-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=69891","title":{"rendered":"A Conservative Is A Liberal That&#8217;s Been Mugged"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It&#8217;s not just an aphorism!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>DC\/Baltimore area liberal political comic lives it out:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Tim Young was heading to one of D.C.\u2019s newest hotspots\u2014The Wharf\u2014when his life changed.<br>He was walking down a well-lit section of M Street at about 7:45 p.m. Wednesday when two men approached him\u2014one of them had a gun.<br>\u201cTerrified. You know, when I talk to people about this\u2026 you\u2019re scared. There\u2019s no man card involved. I was defenseless,\u201d explained Young, who\u2019s a political comedian and host of \u2018No Things Considered\u2019 at the D.C. Examiner. The men ran off with his cell phone.<br><br><br><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Details: Last night I was robbed at gunpoint by 2 men in DC by the new <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheWharfDC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@TheWharfDC<\/a> on the way to get coffee at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dolcezzagelato?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@dolcezzagelato<\/a> at 7:45pm.<br>They got my phone and tossed me around while people watched from a half block away.  Then they ran off.<br>Thanks to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DCPoliceDept?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@DCPoliceDept<\/a> for your help.<\/p>\u2014 Tim Young (@TimRunsHisMouth) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TimRunsHisMouth\/status\/953992503685984257?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 18, 2018<\/a><\/blockquote>\n<script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><em>Now, he said he absolutely plans to apply for a concealed carry permit in D.C., but it won\u2019t be easy. The District is one of the toughest places in the country to get a permit to carry a concealed weapon.<\/em><br><em>\u201cWhen you\u2019re in an instance where there\u2019s a gun is pointed at you and your life is being threatened for your property and no one\u2019s going to help\u2014and now I know that no one\u2019s going to help\u2014I want to feel more secure. I want to feel safe, and I have something to defend myself with,\u201d he said.<\/em><br><em>When asked how the situation would have went differently if he had a gun, Young told Bruce Johnson on \u2018Off Script\u2019 that he probably would have pulled it out to defend himself.<\/em><br><em>He addressed people who are against conceal carry permits by saying they\u2019ve probably never been in his position.<\/em><br><em>\u201cI think a lot of those people who are opposed to having a conceal carry permit and being able to own a weapon have never had one pointed directly at them when they have nothing on them,\u201d Young said.<\/em><br><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Welcome to the party, Tim.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bring some friends. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not just an aphorism! DC\/Baltimore area liberal political comic lives it out: Tim Young was heading to one of D.C.\u2019s newest hotspots\u2014The Wharf\u2014when his life changed.He was walking down a well-lit section of M Street at about 7:45 p.m. Wednesday when two men approached him\u2014one of them had a gun.\u201cTerrified. You know, when I [&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-69891","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\/69891","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=69891"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69896,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69891\/revisions\/69896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}