{"id":76529,"date":"2021-01-21T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-21T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=76529"},"modified":"2021-01-21T05:23:02","modified_gmt":"2021-01-21T11:23:02","slug":"76529","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=76529","title":{"rendered":"Common Sense"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>A frequent commentor asked: &#8220;What utility does a ghost gun have that a<br>serial numbered gun does not?&#8221;<\/p><p>It&#8217;s a question frequently asked by those in favor of &#8220;common sense&#8221; gun<br>control.<\/p><p>To which I reply: &#8220;What utility does a Catholic have that an Anglican<br>does not?&nbsp; Why can&#8217;t we have common sense Catholic control?&#8221;<\/p><p>And, &#8220;What utility does conservative political speech have that liberal<br>political speech does not?&nbsp; Why can&#8217;t we have common sense speech control?&#8221;<\/p><p>To ask these questions is to reveal the fundamental disagreement between<br>my view of how government should operate and the questioner&#8217;s view,<br>between the Founders&#8217; view and modern-day Democrats&#8217; view.<\/p><p>How far we&#8217;ve strayed . . .<\/p><p>Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>My other preferred answer:  &#8220;I&#8217;m a citizen doing something I have a Constitutional and statutory right to do.  The utility it has is giving people like you a big f*** you&#8221;. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A frequent commentor asked: &#8220;What utility does a ghost gun have that aserial numbered gun does not?&#8221; It&#8217;s a question frequently asked by those in favor of &#8220;common sense&#8221; guncontrol. To which I reply: &#8220;What utility does a Catholic have that an Anglicandoes not?&nbsp; Why can&#8217;t we have common sense Catholic control?&#8221; And, &#8220;What utility [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76529","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=76529"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76533,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76529\/revisions\/76533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}