{"id":74425,"date":"2020-06-12T05:53:29","date_gmt":"2020-06-12T10:53:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=74425"},"modified":"2020-06-12T05:53:29","modified_gmt":"2020-06-12T10:53:29","slug":"ready-for-an-apology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=74425","title":{"rendered":"Ready For An Apology"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>The Washington Post, which endlessly editorializes in favor of stricter gun control laws and bans, writes approvingly of armed citizens\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/news\/article\/Minneapolis-citizen-patrols-make-statement-15322368.php\" target=\"_blank\">carrying assault rifles, shotguns and pistols in the streets<\/a>\u00a0of Minneapolis.\u00a0<\/p><p>NAACP, which advocates\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.naacp.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/GUN-VIOLENCE.Issue-Brief.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">strict gun control laws and bans<\/a>, is organizing the armed citizen patrols.<\/p><p>Neither of these organizations come right out and say it, but by their actions, they&#8217;re basically conceding that I was right all along, and they were wrong.\u00a0<\/p><p>I am now prepared to accept their apologies.<\/p><p>Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>The good news:   we might be starting to see parts of the left (including, unfortunately, some of the worst parts) voting on this issue with their feet. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The bad news:  all that energy is going to go into more bad ideas. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Post, which endlessly editorializes in favor of stricter gun control laws and bans, writes approvingly of armed citizens\u00a0carrying assault rifles, shotguns and pistols in the streets\u00a0of Minneapolis.\u00a0 NAACP, which advocates\u00a0strict gun control laws and bans, is organizing the armed citizen patrols. Neither of these organizations come right out and say it, but by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[325,321,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-gun-control","category-big-left","category-victim-disarmament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74425","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=74425"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74426,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74425\/revisions\/74426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}