{"id":74453,"date":"2020-06-15T05:35:58","date_gmt":"2020-06-15T10:35:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=74453"},"modified":"2020-06-15T06:48:50","modified_gmt":"2020-06-15T11:48:50","slug":"74453","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=74453","title":{"rendered":"Not Ready For Prime Time"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Looking at the<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/news\/article\/Minneapolis-citizen-patrols-make-statement-15322368.php\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0SF article on armed citizens again<\/a>\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0<\/p><p>&#8220;As the car fills with the acrid scent of burning chemicals, Ellison tells his friend in the driver&#8217;s seat to pull over. Before they come to a stop, Ellison, 30, flings open the door and jumps out\u00a0<strong>with a pistol in one hand<\/strong>\u00a0and a small fire extinguisher in the other. He walks briskly down the street, scanning the block for the origin of the fumes.&#8221;<\/p><p><em>Even assuming he has a permit to carry, that&#8217;s &#8220;brandishing,&#8221; and it&#8217;s a crime.\u00a0 What are you doing waving a gun around, one-handed?\u00a0 What&#8217;s your target?\u00a0 Where&#8217;s the imminent danger?\u00a0 Why is that damned thing out of the holster???<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>His father&#8217;s the attorney general.   That&#8217;s his legal justification, peasant. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><br>&#8220;At one checkpoint, a young man nervously looked down the street as a car approached,\u00a0<strong>his finger on the trigger\u00a0<\/strong>of a semiautomatic rifle half-raised in front of him.&#8221;<br>Get Your Booger Hook Off The Bang Switch!!\u00a0 What the hell is wrong with you?\u00a0 Have you no firearms safety training at all?\u00a0<\/p><p>The author is PRAISING these idiots for running around the streets with loaded guns and no idea how to use them safely.<\/p><p>Every time a new group gets frightened enough to run out to buy guns &#8211; women, gays, trans &#8211; I make the same offer:\u00a0 I will teach you how to use it, safely, for free.\u00a0 Time to step up my game.\u00a0 Whole lotta people desperately need help before somebody gets hurt from sheer stupidity.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>There are a whole lot of people who&#8217;ve come over to the 2nd Amendment side this past few months.  There are a lot of opportunities for us to show them how it&#8217;s done. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although I&#8217;m not sure Jeremiah Ellison is going to be one of the ones who learns much. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looking at the\u00a0SF article on armed citizens again\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0 &#8220;As the car fills with the acrid scent of burning chemicals, Ellison tells his friend in the driver&#8217;s seat to pull over. Before they come to a stop, Ellison, 30, flings open the door and jumps out\u00a0with a pistol in one hand\u00a0and a small fire extinguisher in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[419,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2020-riots","category-victim-disarmament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74453","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=74453"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74456,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74453\/revisions\/74456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}