{"id":34469,"date":"2013-03-08T15:07:59","date_gmt":"2013-03-08T19:07:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=34469"},"modified":"2013-03-08T15:30:05","modified_gmt":"2013-03-08T19:30:05","slug":"reality-check-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=34469","title":{"rendered":"Reality Check?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The elephant in the room is making enough noise to be heard, but nobody seems to be listening.<\/p>\n<p>As Jonn noted <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=34462\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> one Senator is convinced that PTS(D) should preclude many vets from owning guns, but we may have a sitting senator who, in every way, could be pictured along side the very definition of the thing.<\/p>\n<p>John McCain is a bona fide American Hero. However, the very events that make him a hero would make him suspect in some eyes.\u00a0 Anyone doubt he could buy any gun he fancied?<\/p>\n<p>Please set aside <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/post-politics\/wp\/2013\/03\/08\/mccain-calls-paul-cruz-amash-wacko-birds\/\" target=\"_blank\">his current behavior<\/a>s because my point concerns a much broader dichotomy.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/allpsych.com\/disorders\/dsm.html\" target=\"_blank\">DSM<\/a> is evolving tool. And there is a rather lengthy history of defining any opposition as mentally ill.<\/p>\n<p>Calling a Senator or two a &#8220;Wacko Bird&#8221; is one thing, but where will it end for the rest of us?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The elephant in the room is making enough noise to be heard, but nobody seems to &hellip; <a title=\"Reality Check?\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=34469\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Reality Check?<\/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":[209,172,156,188],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teh-stoopid","category-geezer-alert","category-guns","category-reality-check"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34469","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=34469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34469\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}