{"id":218,"date":"2016-01-24T21:41:50","date_gmt":"2016-01-25T01:41:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foggybottomline.com\/?p=218"},"modified":"2016-01-24T21:41:50","modified_gmt":"2016-01-25T01:41:50","slug":"moron-labe-the-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foggybottomline.com\/?p=218","title":{"rendered":"Moron Labe the First"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/foggybottomline.com\/?p=211\" target=\"_blank\">This morning<\/a> I threatened to start a new series &#8211; Moron Labe &#8211; pointing out\u00a0idiots who carry guns but haven&#8217;t a clue about how to handle them and because of their stupidity hurt themselves or others. \u00a0This is a riff on the gun rights slogan <em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Molon_labe\" target=\"_blank\">Molon Labe<\/a><\/em>, from the Greek (\u03bc\u03bf\u03bb\u1f7c\u03bd \u03bb\u03b1\u03b2\u03ad) for &#8220;come and take them.&#8221; \u00a0See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanthinker.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/molon_labe_the_code_of_those_born_fighting.html\" target=\"_blank\">this post<\/a> at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanthinker.com\" target=\"_blank\"><em>American Thinker<\/em><\/a>\u00a0(a source of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanthinker.com\/articles\/2016\/01\/the_academic_war_on_facts.html\" target=\"_blank\">true nuttiness<\/a>, by the way) for context.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I guess I can kick off the series with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amny.com\/news\/brooklyn-man-accidentally-shoots-friend-in-sunset-park-with-gun-he-thought-was-unloaded-nypd-says-1.11383764\" target=\"_blank\">story of Maciej Gorecki<\/a>, who went to visit a pal so he could show off his gun. \u00a0While doing this he shot his friend &#8211; and killed him &#8211; with a gun he thought was not loaded.<\/p>\n<p>Moron Labe &#8211; come and get this moron.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning I threatened to start a new series &#8211; Moron Labe &#8211; pointing out\u00a0idiots who carry guns but haven&#8217;t a clue about how to handle them and because of their stupidity hurt themselves or others. \u00a0This is a riff on the gun rights slogan Molon Labe, from the Greek (\u03bc\u03bf\u03bb\u1f7c\u03bd \u03bb\u03b1\u03b2\u03ad) for &#8220;come and [&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":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","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\/218","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=218"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/foggybottomline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":219,"href":"https:\/\/foggybottomline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions\/219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foggybottomline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foggybottomline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foggybottomline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}