{"id":72229,"date":"2019-09-25T05:00:44","date_gmt":"2019-09-25T10:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=72229"},"modified":"2019-09-21T16:34:13","modified_gmt":"2019-09-21T21:34:13","slug":"strongarm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=72229","title":{"rendered":"Strongarm"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollcall.com\/news\/more-states-allowing-gun-seizures-amid-plague-of-mass-shootings\">Liberals are thrilled with the notion<\/a> that law enforcement should be able to petition the court to seize firearms owned by potential bad guys. The evidence presented would be rumor, innuendo, gossip, accusation.\u00a0 The standard of proof would be &#8220;he&#8217;s more likely than not, to do something bad someday.&#8221;<br>If Sheriff Bull Connor petitions the court to seize guns from suspected troublemakers using the red flag laws as his authority, but 99% of the people he flags are African American males between the ages of 13 and 30 (on the grounds that they tend to be the most likely to shoot up the neighborhood), will liberals continue to be thrilled?<\/p><p>Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Those who take the &#8220;Liberal&#8221; thing seriously probably will. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Progressives&#8221;, on the other hand, won&#8217;t care.  It&#8217;s about neither safety nor equality.  Sometimes you gotta break eggs to make an omelet.  Some of those eggs are black.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liberals are thrilled with the notion that law enforcement should be able to petition the court to seize firearms owned by potential bad guys. The evidence presented would be rumor, innuendo, gossip, accusation.\u00a0 The standard of proof would be &#8220;he&#8217;s more likely than not, to do something bad someday.&#8221;If Sheriff Bull Connor petitions the court [&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-72229","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\/72229","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=72229"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72235,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72229\/revisions\/72235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}