{"id":8407,"date":"2010-02-02T07:23:38","date_gmt":"2010-02-02T12:23:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=8407"},"modified":"2010-02-02T07:23:38","modified_gmt":"2010-02-02T12:23:38","slug":"some-perspective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=8407","title":{"rendered":"Some Perspective"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You think you have it bad, what with being &#8220;represented&#8221; by a legislature that looks at your wallet like a crack whore looks at a misplaced Platinum Card, and being slandered by a bunch of talking heads who aren&#8217;t fit to carry your gig bag?<\/p>\n<p>Try living in the UK, where not only are private firearms banned, but defending oneself is a crime, and burglars have more rights than you do.<\/p>\n<p>Conservative David Cameron, of course, wants to change that:<br \/>\n<object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"480\" height=\"295\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Cwh5U5mbrmY&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"480\" height=\"295\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Cwh5U5mbrmY&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><br \/>\nI almost said &#8220;it&#8217;s hard to believe he&#8217;s getting opposition&#8221;, but then I live in a city that won&#8217;t let the Army run it&#8217;s little M16 simulator on its recruiting truck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You think you have it bad, what with being &#8220;represented&#8221; by a legislature that looks at your wallet like a crack whore looks at a misplaced Platinum Card, and being slandered by a bunch of talking heads who aren&#8217;t fit to carry your gig bag? Try living in the UK, where not only are private [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-victim-disarmament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8407","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=8407"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8408,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8407\/revisions\/8408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}