{"id":8225,"date":"2020-01-19T11:50:33","date_gmt":"2020-01-19T18:50:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/?p=8225"},"modified":"2020-01-19T11:50:33","modified_gmt":"2020-01-19T18:50:33","slug":"help-stop-gun-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/furg\/help-stop-gun-violence\/","title":{"rendered":"Help Stop Gun Violence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No one wants to take away guns from responsible gun owners. However, if you rage and howl about civil war and cold dead hands, you are NOT a responsible gun owner &#8212; you are a zealot. The angrier you are, the more dangerous you are with a gun &#8212; that&#8217;s not responsible.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Now, assuming you are calm and sensible, as I hope the majority of gun owners are, you have an extra responsibility to speak to the nuts and rein them in.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Stand down. Calm down. Work with others to develop gun measures that help reduce gun violence and also help punish those who use guns non-defensively. Stiff-arming us and shaking your weapons in the air while opposing everything as the paranoid &#8220;slippery slope&#8221; does no one any good. Help control gun violence. Prove you are responsible and decent, not a zealot.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No one wants to take away guns from responsible gun owners. However, if you rage and howl about civil war and cold dead hands, you are NOT a responsible gun owner &#8212; you are a zealot. The angrier you are, the more dangerous you are with a gun &#8212; that&#8217;s not responsible.\u00a0 Now, assuming you &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/furg\/help-stop-gun-violence\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Help Stop Gun Violence<\/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-8225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-furg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8225","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=8225"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8226,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8225\/revisions\/8226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}