{"id":75899,"date":"2020-11-23T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-23T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=75899"},"modified":"2020-11-18T08:50:02","modified_gmt":"2020-11-18T14:50:02","slug":"downstream-from-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=75899","title":{"rendered":"Downstream From Culture"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>To some observers, <a href=\"https:\/\/opensourcedefense.org\/blog\/gun-rights-are-winning-and-nobody-has-realized-it\">gun rights were on the brink of going viral<\/a>, and in a positive way, before last March.   Gun ownership, gun culture, and the notion that the right to keep and bear arms is not merely an essential, but a normal part of regular civic life, were on the ascendant.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One could even point out that the extreme anti-gun stances in &#8220;Blue&#8221; America were a reaction to that ascendancy in most of the country. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then came the twin pandemics &#8211; Covid and violence tolerated with a nudge and a wink by Blue city governments&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;and it would seem gun control has, itself, <a href=\"https:\/\/pjmedia.com\/vodkapundit\/2020\/11\/16\/sublime-gun-control-support-collapses-10-points-as-relentless-antifa-blm-violence-continues-n1150299\">been shot in the foot<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s not all good news &#8211; given that <a href=\"https:\/\/joebiden.com\/gunsafety\/#\">Biden has pledged to be a gun grabber<\/a>, Big Left may well see that this may be their last decent chance to disarm the nation. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To some observers, gun rights were on the brink of going viral, and in a positive way, before last March. Gun ownership, gun culture, and the notion that the right to keep and bear arms is not merely an essential, but a normal part of regular civic life, were on the ascendant. One could even [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats","category-victim-disarmament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75899","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=75899"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75900,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75899\/revisions\/75900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}