{"id":186623,"date":"2013-12-04T20:19:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-05T01:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/12\/04\/quote-of-the-day-gun-control-edition\/"},"modified":"2013-12-04T20:19:00","modified_gmt":"2013-12-05T01:19:00","slug":"quote-of-the-day-gun-control-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/12\/04\/quote-of-the-day-gun-control-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day: Gun Control Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Succinct and to the point.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">The problem with gun nuts with vigilante fantasies is that they think that shooting an unarmed man is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.balloon-juice.com\/2013\/12\/04\/like-a-normal-person-would\/\">pinnacle of bravery<\/a>, when in fact they&#8217;re just extreme cowards.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u2014<a href=\"http:\/\/www.eschatonblog.com\/2013\/12\/bravery.html\">Duncan Black<\/a><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Neither shooting a senile octogenarian on your porch, nor a kid in a hoodie wielding a bag of skittles are heroic, and the people who do it are not heros.<\/p>\n<p>Ever,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Succinct and to the point. The problem with gun nuts with vigilante fantasies is that they think that shooting an unarmed man is the pinnacle of bravery, when in fact they&#8217;re just extreme cowards.&nbsp; \u2014Duncan Black Neither shooting a senile octogenarian on your porch, nor a kid in a hoodie wielding a bag of skittles &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[969,1002,1055,1051],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evil","category-good-writing","category-gun-laws","category-hypocrisy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186623"}],"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=186623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186623\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}