{"id":182127,"date":"2015-12-12T18:59:00","date_gmt":"2015-12-12T23:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/12\/12\/its-tough-when-your-sick-fantasy-is-revealed-as-a-sick-fantasy\/"},"modified":"2015-12-12T18:59:00","modified_gmt":"2015-12-12T23:59:00","slug":"its-tough-when-your-sick-fantasy-is-revealed-as-a-sick-fantasy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/12\/12\/its-tough-when-your-sick-fantasy-is-revealed-as-a-sick-fantasy\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Tough When Your Sick Fantasy is Revealed as a Sick Fantasy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am, of course, referring to the &#8220;Good guy with a gun&#8221; myth.<\/p>\n<p>Jordan Klepper at <i>The Daily Show<\/i> looks at the efficacy of that mythical figure in some paint ball scenarios.<\/p>\n<p>It ain&#8217;t pretty.<\/p>\n<p>He gets shot by the gunman, shoots innocent students, and finally gets shot by the police.<\/p>\n<p>Way too many of the ammosexuals have this fantasy of finding a bad guy and shooting them.<\/p>\n<p>That <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/news\/nationworld\/midwest\/ct-michigan-shoplifter-concealed-carry-20151211-story.html\">crazy woman who unloaded a clip at a bunch of fleeing shoplifters<\/a> is a classic example:  It wasn&#8217;t about her trying to help, it was about her seizing an opportunity to go Rambo with her pistol.<\/p>\n<p>Because Comedy Central vids autoplay on some platforms, I have put the video after the break:<br \/><a name='more'><\/a><br \/>Part 1:<br \/><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"279\" src=\"http:\/\/media.mtvnservices.com\/embed\/mgid:arc:video:comedycentral.com:117fafe2-a462-436b-abfb-faf1e2564977\" width=\"496\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Part 2:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"279\" src=\"http:\/\/media.mtvnservices.com\/embed\/mgid:arc:video:comedycentral.com:65a955ad-96cb-4f30-9c25-c32649729af4\" width=\"496\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am, of course, referring to the &#8220;Good guy with a gun&#8221; myth. Jordan Klepper at The Daily Show looks at the efficacy of that mythical figure in some paint ball scenarios. It ain&#8217;t pretty. He gets shot by the gunman, shoots innocent students, and finally gets shot by the police. Way too many of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1055,1048,1027,1126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gun-laws","category-humor","category-video","category-weapons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182127"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}