{"id":5303,"date":"2012-12-16T18:28:30","date_gmt":"2012-12-17T02:28:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/?p=5303"},"modified":"2012-12-16T18:28:30","modified_gmt":"2012-12-17T02:28:30","slug":"i-cannot-possibly-buy-the-argument-that-people-need-weapons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/i-cannot-possibly-buy-the-argument-that-people-need-weapons\/","title":{"rendered":"I cannot possibly buy the argument that people need weapons&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>I cannot possibly buy the argument that people need weapons in case the government fails them and democracy breaks down. If the narrative were true, someone over the past 5 years would have taken arms to express frustration with the banking establishment hijacking the political system for self-enrichment &#8211;one of the greatest iniquities ever, ever &#8212; and other similar lobbyists, instead of using weapons against schoolchildren and college students. The reason we have arms is gun lobby, period.<\/p>\n<p>To repeat the argument against the long peace, a weirdo with a knife can&#8217;t go far. Just as I don&#8217;t want to be in a plane with an armed gumnan on board, I don&#8217;t want weirdos with guns in civil society. Via Negativa: gun control is perhaps one of the very few things the government should do.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/permalink.php?story_fbid=10151220051243375&amp;id=13012333374\">I cannot possibly&#8230;<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I cannot possibly buy the argument that people need weapons in case the government fails them and democracy breaks down. If the narrative were true, someone over the past 5 years would have taken arms to express frustration with the banking establishment hijacking the political system for self-enrichment &#8211;one of the greatest iniquities ever, ever [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[145],"tags":[621],"class_list":["post-5303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-facebook","tag-gun-control"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5303"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5304,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5303\/revisions\/5304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}