{"id":17500,"date":"2015-10-03T15:03:25","date_gmt":"2015-10-03T22:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=17500"},"modified":"2015-10-03T15:03:25","modified_gmt":"2015-10-03T22:03:25","slug":"trumped-again-by-golly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=17500","title":{"rendered":"Trumped Again, By Golly!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No, I wasn&#8217;t thinking of The Donald. I was thinking of this guy:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Screen Shot 2015-10-03 at 2.02.33 PM\" href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/morning-joe\/joe-the-plumber-california-shooting\" target=\"_blank\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"click to read the article\" src=\"https:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5808\/21894613706_16347ce6a6_z.jpg\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2015-10-03 at 2.02.33 PM\" width=\"640\" height=\"461\" \/><\/a><script src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>Pretty much shows you where the battle lines are drawn today. Thank you, Antonin Scalia, for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/news\/news-desk\/the-second-amendment-is-a-gun-control-amendment?mbid=social_facebook\" target=\"_blank\">perverting the meaning\u00a0of the 2nd Amendment<\/a> and giving the gun nuts something to hide\u00a0behind. Hide behind the 2nd Amendment they\u00a0might, but sensible people\u00a0will continue to fight them.\u00a0 A\u00a0friend (I&#8217;ll call her B) signed a Stop the NRA petition today and posted the link to Facebook\u00a0(the link&#8217;s embedded here so you can sign too, if you want &#8212; just click on the image): <a title=\"Screen Shot 2015-10-03 at 2.03.07 PM\" href=\"http:\/\/act.credoaction.com\/sign\/NRA_Congress\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"click to sign the petition\" src=\"https:\/\/farm1.staticflickr.com\/714\/21299654193_7b1fffd823_z.jpg\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2015-10-03 at 2.03.07 PM\" width=\"640\" height=\"485\" \/><\/a><script src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>A gun nut\u00a0(I&#8217;ll call him D) jumped in with\u00a0the obligatory defense of the NRA. B stood up to him in fine fashion, but he wasn&#8217;t through. D&#8217;s\u00a0response to B&#8217;s\u00a0response is what really got my attention:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"click if you must; it won't do anything\" src=\"https:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5679\/21930501221_51f86d1afb_z.jpg\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2015-10-03 at 1.49.59 PM\" width=\"640\" height=\"220\" \/><script src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>I&#8217;ve heard this argument\u00a0before, the suggestion\u00a0that you&#8217;re committing treason if you don&#8217;t carry a gun. You know, so you can stop bad guys, as the Constitution requires. I\u00a0couldn&#8217;t resist pimping our gun-humping, NRA-loving friend: <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"click if you must; it won't do anything\" src=\"https:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5791\/21909591172_ca64deaeba_z.jpg\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2015-10-03 at 2.13.17 PM copy 2\" width=\"640\" height=\"348\" \/><script src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Now <em>that&#8217;s<\/em> one I haven&#8217;t heard before!\u00a0Not only are you not in compliance with the 2nd Amendment (and thus the Constitution) if you don&#8217;t carry a gun, the NRA is now the same as the 2nd Amendment (and thus the Constitution)!<\/p>\n<p>Funny, when I see Wayne LaPierre spewing race war rhetoric\u00a0with his robotically oversized rectangular mouth, sending mobs of\u00a0uneducated whites running to the gun stores with ooga-booga tales of rampaging inner city blacks, it&#8217;s not the Constitution I see, it&#8217;s the KKK.<\/p>\n<p>By the way, I thought long and hard before calling D &#8220;that guy.&#8221; Should have stuck with my first choice, &#8220;cunt.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, I wasn&#8217;t thinking of The Donald. I was thinking of this guy: Pretty much shows you where the battle lines are drawn today. Thank you, Antonin Scalia, for perverting the meaning\u00a0of the 2nd Amendment and giving the gun nuts something to hide\u00a0behind. Hide behind the 2nd Amendment they\u00a0might, but sensible people\u00a0will continue to fight [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[250,10,827,22,9],"tags":[1967,1966,1344,80],"class_list":["post-17500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-wars","category-current-events","category-social-media","category-terrorism","category-war","tag-gun-humpers","tag-joe-the-plumber","tag-mass-shootings","tag-nra"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17500"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17504,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17500\/revisions\/17504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}