{"id":7874,"date":"2016-06-19T15:06:29","date_gmt":"2016-06-19T21:06:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/?p=7874"},"modified":"2016-06-19T15:06:29","modified_gmt":"2016-06-19T21:06:29","slug":"i-used-an-assault-rifle-in-the-army-i-dont-think-civilians-should-own-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/furg\/i-used-an-assault-rifle-in-the-army-i-dont-think-civilians-should-own-them\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;I Used an Assault Rifle in the Army. I Don\u2019t Think Civilians Should Own Them.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/opinion\/i-used-an-assault-rifle-in-the-army-i-don%e2%80%99t-think-civilians-should-own-them\/ar-AAh9cJW\">By NATE BETHEA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>These weapons are intended for the battlefield. I don\u2019t want an assault rifle, because I don\u2019t want to think of my home country as a battlefield. I don\u2019t want civilians to own assault rifles, because I think the risks outweigh the rewards. If people really do believe that they need them, maybe it\u2019s because they see a battlefield where others don\u2019t. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t want to believe that we live in a place so dangerous as to require these weapons. Maybe I\u2019m na\u00efve. Maybe I\u2019m just waiting to be victimized. I\u2019d rather be na\u00efve and hopeful than face the alternative: the howling terror, the sensation that danger is kept at bay only by that familiar weight, those familiar clicks, and what comes after.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By NATE BETHEA These weapons are intended for the battlefield. I don\u2019t want an assault rifle, because I don\u2019t want to think of my home country as a battlefield. I don\u2019t want civilians to own assault rifles, because I think the risks outweigh the rewards. If people really do believe that they need them, maybe &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/furg\/i-used-an-assault-rifle-in-the-army-i-dont-think-civilians-should-own-them\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;I Used an Assault Rifle in the Army. I Don\u2019t Think Civilians Should Own Them.&#8221;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-furg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7874"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7875,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7874\/revisions\/7875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}