{"id":71578,"date":"2019-06-17T11:00:52","date_gmt":"2019-06-17T16:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=71578"},"modified":"2019-06-17T07:45:47","modified_gmt":"2019-06-17T12:45:47","slug":"oops-she-did-it-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=71578","title":{"rendered":"Oops!  She Did It Again!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;Protect&#8221; Minnesota &#8211; most likely their &#8220;executive director&#8221; and one of very few actual members, the Reverend Nancy Nord Bence &#8211; reported on what the belived to be their bete noir, a good guy with a gun, doing something allegedly stupid and horrible.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"836\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Image-from-iOS-4-836x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-71579\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Image-from-iOS-4-836x1024.jpg 836w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Image-from-iOS-4-245x300.jpg 245w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Image-from-iOS-4-768x941.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Image-from-iOS-4.jpg 1242w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 836px) 100vw, 836px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Oh, no!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the one hand, it touches all &#8220;P&#8221;M&#8217;s hot buttons: a gun and a civilian.  Sounds bad.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But on the other hand, you need to remember &#8211; the Reverend (and, really, any anti-gun leader) has never, not once, said anything about guns, gun owners, the 2nd Amendment or its history, gun laws, crime or statistics that is simultaneously substantial, original and true.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With that in mind, you need to merely cast a wider net.  Was this an example of a &#8220;good guy with a gun&#8221; getting into a squabble and blazing away? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Look a little closer. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/losangeles.cbslocal.com\/2019\/06\/15\/lapd-officer-opens-fire-coscto\/?fbclid=IwAR0HpD-NZgGZXW7KxFvBLpo6ssZu9qNdMNH26kZqkNFBAHhSKmwbnSTVcBQ\">Oh<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I think we&#8217;re on the brink of a Berg&#8217;s 21st Law:   &#8220;The Reverend Nancy Nord Bence&#8217;s first draft is never right, and almost always comical&#8221;.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Protect&#8221; Minnesota &#8211; most likely their &#8220;executive director&#8221; and one of very few actual members, the Reverend Nancy Nord Bence &#8211; reported on what the belived to be their bete noir, a good guy with a gun, doing something allegedly stupid and horrible. Oh, no! On the one hand, it touches all &#8220;P&#8221;M&#8217;s hot buttons: [&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":[359],"class_list":["post-71578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-victim-disarmament","tag-rev-nancy-nord-bence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71578","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=71578"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71580,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71578\/revisions\/71580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}