{"id":207,"date":"2016-01-22T15:25:13","date_gmt":"2016-01-22T19:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foggybottomline.com\/?p=207"},"modified":"2016-01-22T15:25:13","modified_gmt":"2016-01-22T19:25:13","slug":"gun-control-means-hitting-the-target","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foggybottomline.com\/?p=207","title":{"rendered":"Gun Control Means&#8230;Hitting the Target?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For a good example of why it makes no sense to let just any yahoo walk the streets with loaded weapons, see <a href=\"http:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/livewire\/13-hours-accidental-shooting-washington\" target=\"_blank\">this article<\/a> at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.talkingpointsmemo.com\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Talking Points Memo<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s right. \u00a0Some &#8220;law abiding \u00a0citizen&#8221; carrying a firearm around for self protection accidentally shot someone because he couldn&#8217;t properly handle the weapon. \u00a0Then he leaves the scene and drops the thing again in a restaurant. \u00a0It fortunately didn&#8217;t discharge the second time fumble fingers lost control. \u00a0But it does suggest that\u00a0armed citizens walking around town are more likely to hurt others or someone else that use it for self-protection.<\/p>\n<p>This is also a good example of why\u00a0we should require gun owners to have liability insurance, by the way. \u00a0I hope the victim here sues this dumbass for every thing he owns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For a good example of why it makes no sense to let just any yahoo walk the streets with loaded weapons, see this article at Talking Points Memo. That&#8217;s right. \u00a0Some &#8220;law abiding \u00a0citizen&#8221; carrying a firearm around for self protection accidentally shot someone because he couldn&#8217;t properly handle the weapon. \u00a0Then he leaves the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guns-and-gun-control","category-morons-with-guns"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foggybottomline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foggybottomline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foggybottomline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foggybottomline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foggybottomline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=207"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/foggybottomline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":208,"href":"https:\/\/foggybottomline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207\/revisions\/208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foggybottomline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foggybottomline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foggybottomline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}