{"id":115,"date":"2009-02-26T01:25:15","date_gmt":"2009-02-26T09:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/illspirit.com\/blog\/?p=115"},"modified":"2009-02-26T01:25:15","modified_gmt":"2009-02-26T09:25:15","slug":"let-me-get-this-straight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/illspirit.com\/blog\/115\/let-me-get-this-straight\/","title":{"rendered":"Let me get this straight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a war going on south of the border involving vast, criminal organizations who seek to control the trade of drugs which are completely illegal in the United States. Said organizations are &#8220;employing automatic weapons and grenades&#8221; which are practically illegal in the United States. But the rocket scientists in the Obama administration think the solution is to <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/story?id=6960824&amp;page=1\">ban certain cosmetic, ergonomic, and safety features on semi-automatic rifles<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>Seeing as the cartels already ignore the bans on smuggling, drugs, grenades, machine guns, assassination, and mass murder, why exactly are they going to obey <em>this<\/em> ban? And, err, how exactly would that even change anything when they&#8217;re already using automatic weapons and grenades which have nothing to do with the proposed ban? Isn&#8217;t that a bit like banning attack hamsters in order to prevent vicious dog bites?<\/p>\n<p>And why is the guy who just called us all cowards so eager to surrender one of our Constitutional rights because of gangsters in another country..<\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.snowflakesinhell.com\/2009\/02\/25\/holder-calls-for-new-assault-weapons-ban\/\">Sebastian<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a war going on south of the border involving vast, criminal organizations who seek to control the trade of drugs which are completely illegal in the United States. Said organizations are &#8220;employing automatic weapons and grenades&#8221; which are practically illegal in the United States. But the rocket scientists in the Obama administration think the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guns","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/illspirit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/illspirit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/illspirit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/illspirit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/illspirit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/illspirit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/illspirit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/illspirit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/illspirit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}