{"id":9120,"date":"2012-12-22T16:04:50","date_gmt":"2012-12-22T16:04:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/12\/22\/john-pepple-on-guns\/"},"modified":"2012-12-22T16:04:50","modified_gmt":"2012-12-22T16:04:50","slug":"john-pepple-on-guns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/12\/22\/john-pepple-on-guns\/","title":{"rendered":"John Pepple on Guns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/iwantanewleft.typepad.com\/i-want-a-new-left\/\" target=\"_self\">John Pepple<\/a> has posted a number of interesting entries on guns.&#0160; <a href=\"http:\/\/iwantanewleft.typepad.com\/i-want-a-new-left\/2012\/12\/more-on-guns.html\" target=\"_self\">Here<\/a> he writes,<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">. . . we are repeatedly told by multiculturalists that we must respect other cultures and that we must \u201cunderstand\u201d them, even if we find them repulsive. Yet, there is nothing about the current rage of progressives against gun lovers that suggests they respect gun culture or have any understanding of it, either in the ordinary sense of the word \u201cunderstand\u201d or in their sense, which means \u201caccept.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Good point, John, except that I would replace &#39;gun lovers&#39; with &#39;gun owners.&#39;&#0160; I love my cats, not my guns.&#0160; I respect my guns in the way I respect such other tools as chain saws and automobiles that, misused or carelessly used, can add to the stockpile of human misery.&#0160; In my experience, most gun owners are like me in this regard.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#0160;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Pepple has posted a number of interesting entries on guns.&#0160; Here he writes, . . . we are repeatedly told by multiculturalists that we must respect other cultures and that we must \u201cunderstand\u201d them, even if we find them repulsive. Yet, there is nothing about the current rage of progressives against gun lovers that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/12\/22\/john-pepple-on-guns\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;John Pepple on Guns&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alcohol-tobacco-and-firearms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9120","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=9120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}