{"id":183714,"date":"2012-12-11T21:16:00","date_gmt":"2012-12-12T02:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/12\/11\/there-is-one-man-who-can-challenge-the-gun-lobby\/"},"modified":"2012-12-11T21:16:00","modified_gmt":"2012-12-12T02:16:00","slug":"there-is-one-man-who-can-challenge-the-gun-lobby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/12\/11\/there-is-one-man-who-can-challenge-the-gun-lobby\/","title":{"rendered":"There is One Man Who Can Challenge the Gun Lobby"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; text-align: center; width: 394px;\">\n<div style=\"padding: 4px;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"216\" src=\"http:\/\/media.mtvnservices.com\/embed\/mgid:cms:video:thedailyshow.com:422029\" width=\"384\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Jon Stewart doesn&#8217;t challenge gun ownership per se, but rather the sh%$ storm freakout accompanying Bob Costas&#8217; comments on gun violence in the context of the Jovan Belcher murder\/suicide.<\/p>\n<p>He made the rather unremarkable observation that absent Belcher&#8217;s (legally owned) firearms, he and Kasandra Perkins might still be alive today.<\/p>\n<p>The NRA, and its inadequately endowed paranoid ilk, want to make discussions of gun violence, and gun culture literally unspeakable in the media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jon Stewart doesn&#8217;t challenge gun ownership per se, but rather the sh%$ storm freakout accompanying Bob Costas&#8217; comments on gun violence in the context of the Jovan Belcher murder\/suicide. He made the rather unremarkable observation that absent Belcher&#8217;s (legally owned) firearms, he and Kasandra Perkins might still be alive today. The NRA, and its inadequately &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1100,1055,1064,1028,1027],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funny","category-gun-laws","category-media","category-people-i-do-not-want-to-piss-off","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183714"}],"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=183714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183714\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}