{"id":79801,"date":"2021-10-21T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-21T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=79801"},"modified":"2021-10-20T07:24:41","modified_gmt":"2021-10-20T12:24:41","slug":"told-you-so-part-mlvi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=79801","title":{"rendered":"Told You So, Part MLVI"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n

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“If you ban guns,” we said, “criminals will simply use another tool.\u00a0 It’s a basic principle of economics of scarcity,” we said. “People find substitutes for items they can’t buy.”

“No,” we were told by all The Smart People.\u00a0 “It’s guns.\u00a0 Guns are the problem.\u00a0 Ban guns, problem solved.”<\/p>\n

A member of Parliament was just murdered but fortunately, he was not shot.\u00a0 Britain has banned guns.\u00a0\u00a0The MP was stabbed to death.<\/a>\u00a0 There’s already a movement in Britain\u00a0to ban knives<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And now this<\/a>.\u00a0 Five dead qualifies as a “mass shooting.”\u00a0 I’ll bet you a brand-new nickel The Smart People will call for bow bans and one-per-month purchase limits on arrows.\u00a0 Really, how many arrows does one person need? [sarcasm tag off]<\/p>\n

Oops, too late.\u00a0\u00a0Australia’s already on it<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Joe Doakes


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In 20 years, I predict a movement to ban cinder blocks and curbs. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: “If you ban guns,” we said, “criminals will simply use another tool.\u00a0 It’s a basic principle of economics of scarcity,” we said. “People find substitutes for items they can’t buy.” “No,” we were told by all The Smart People.\u00a0 “It’s guns.\u00a0 Guns are the problem.\u00a0 Ban guns, problem solved.” […]<\/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-79801","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\/79801","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=79801"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79802,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79801\/revisions\/79802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}