{"id":30855,"date":"2012-07-17T17:46:51","date_gmt":"2012-07-17T21:46:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=30855"},"modified":"2012-07-17T17:46:51","modified_gmt":"2012-07-17T21:46:51","slug":"the-gun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=30855","title":{"rendered":"The Gun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A pal of mine posted this on FB and it rang the Liberty Bell in my head.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThe rifle itself has no moral stature, since it has no will of its own. Naturally, it may be used by evil men for evil purposes, but there are more good men than evil, and while the latter cannot be persuaded to the path of righteousness by propaganda, they can certainly be corrected by good men with rifles.\u201d<br \/>\n? Jeff Cooper, Art of the Rifle<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;d replace Rifle with Gun in every case, but I sure ain&#8217;t <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jeff_Cooper_(colonel)\" target=\"_blank\">Jeff Cooper.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hat tip to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=30852\" target=\"_blank\">Mr.\u00a0 Williams.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A pal of mine posted this on FB and it rang the Liberty Bell in my &hellip; <a title=\"The Gun\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=30855\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Gun<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":467,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,82,156],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geezer-alert","category-gun-grabbing-fascists","category-guns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/467"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30855\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}