{"id":126,"date":"2009-03-11T14:52:11","date_gmt":"2009-03-11T22:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/illspirit.com\/blog\/?p=126"},"modified":"2009-03-11T14:52:11","modified_gmt":"2009-03-11T22:52:11","slug":"weapons-of-mass-confusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/illspirit.com\/blog\/126\/weapons-of-mass-confusion\/","title":{"rendered":"Weapons of Mass Confusion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.saysuncle.com\/?p=23119\">SayUncle<\/a> blogged that nobody seems to know what kind of weapons were used in the Alabama shooting. Some are saying fully automatic rifles were involved. Others are saying semiautomatic. One source said it looked like an AK-47, but that it &#8220;could have been an M-16.&#8221; How one can possibly confuse the two is mind boggling.<\/p>\n<p>But, yea, despite (or perhaps because of) the confusion, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bradycampaign.org\/media\/release.php?release=1117\">Brady Campaign to Promote Gun Myths<\/a> couldn&#8217;t resist dancing in the blood and spreading disinformation. And once again, they&#8217;re <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bradycampaign.org\/media\/release.php?release=1117\">lying<\/a> about the SKS being an &#8220;assault rifle.&#8221; No matter how many times they say it, <a href=\"https:\/\/illspirit.com\/blog\/74\/mass-pretend-mayhem\/\">it&#8217;s still a lie<\/a>. And are they seriously implying that a &#8220;38 caliber handgun&#8221; is a &#8220;military-style semiautomatic assault weapon&#8221; now too?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SayUncle blogged that nobody seems to know what kind of weapons were used in the Alabama shooting. Some are saying fully automatic rifles were involved. Others are saying semiautomatic. One source said it looked like an AK-47, but that it &#8220;could have been an M-16.&#8221; How one can possibly confuse the two is mind boggling. [&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-126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guns","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/illspirit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126","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=126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/illspirit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/illspirit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/illspirit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/illspirit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}