{"id":183678,"date":"2012-12-24T19:15:00","date_gmt":"2012-12-25T00:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/12\/24\/talk-about-irony\/"},"modified":"2012-12-24T19:15:00","modified_gmt":"2012-12-25T00:15:00","slug":"talk-about-irony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/12\/24\/talk-about-irony\/","title":{"rendered":"Talk About Irony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over at the <a href=\"http:\/\/stellarparthenon.org\/\">Stellar Parthenon BBS<\/a>, JR was discussing <strike>banging his head against a wall<\/strike> a discussion with his right-wing father over gun control.<\/p>\n<p>In describing the discussion, he wrote the following:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">I do think its a complicated question and gun control is only part of it. We have other nations with high gun ownership and not as many rampages. I do think that we need to approach the mental health angle, the question of how our society makes people crazy in the first place, etc.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">It&#8217;s kind of like fire-fighting. Having firemen is a good thing but building places like tinderboxes is also a big problem. Having no building codes is a problem. There are a lot of ways to mitigate against fire before it ever happens. But the f%$#ing NRA is like any other industry advocacy group trying to prevent reform because it costs money. The f%$#ing car companies said we couldn&#8217;t afford safety equipment in cars. Manufacturers said OSHA standards would be too expensive to comply with. Maimed workers are the cost of doing business.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(<i>%$# mine<\/i>)<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a valid point.<\/p>\n<p>Today though, it&#8217;s fraught with irony, because earlier today, some whack-job <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2012\/12\/25\/us-usa-newyork-shooting-idUSBRE8BN0HB20121225\">set a fire in Webster, NY and ambushed the firefighters who responded, shooting two of them dead<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Seriously, f%$# the NRA.<\/p>\n<p>Better yet, don&#8217;t f%$# the NRA, or more specifically don&#8217;t f%$# NRA members.&nbsp; Take the example of Lysistrata.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over at the Stellar Parthenon BBS, JR was discussing banging his head against a wall a discussion with his right-wing father over gun control. In describing the discussion, he wrote the following: I do think its a complicated question and gun control is only part of it. We have other nations with high gun ownership &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[969,1055],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evil","category-gun-laws"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183678"}],"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=183678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183678\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}