{"id":11431,"date":"2010-07-29T16:56:09","date_gmt":"2010-07-29T16:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/07\/29\/guns-on-the-street\/"},"modified":"2010-07-29T16:56:09","modified_gmt":"2010-07-29T16:56:09","slug":"guns-on-the-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/07\/29\/guns-on-the-street\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Guns on the Street&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">It&#39;s a liberal phrase, a silly phrase, a phrase that aids and abets thoughtlessness. Liberals speak of the &#39;guns on the street&#39; and of&#0160;&#0160;getting them off the street. Now I&#39;ve walked down many a street in<br \/>many a city in this world, but I have yet to see any guns on the street. But I have seen them in the hands of people. The liberal tendency is to blame the instrument not the agent. You hear this sort of thing all the time: Guns have killed X people in Y time. A gun can do no such thing. Do liberals know this? They must, but then why do they talk as if they don&#39;t? So maybe they don&#39;t know it.<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#39;t leer at the girl, my eyeglasses did. I didn&#39;t insult my colleague, my tongue did. Tookie Williams is not responsible for brutal murders, society is. It&#39;s the same sort of nonsense.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#39;s a liberal phrase, a silly phrase, a phrase that aids and abets thoughtlessness. Liberals speak of the &#39;guns on the street&#39; and of&#0160;&#0160;getting them off the street. Now I&#39;ve walked down many a street inmany a city in this world, but I have yet to see any guns on the street. But I have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/07\/29\/guns-on-the-street\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8216;Guns on the Street&#8217;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[112,163],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alcohol-tobacco-and-firearms","category-leftism-and-political-correctness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11431\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}