{"id":90716,"date":"2019-09-13T11:00:14","date_gmt":"2019-09-13T15:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=90716"},"modified":"2019-09-13T08:54:34","modified_gmt":"2019-09-13T12:54:34","slug":"weekend-open-thread-268","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=90716","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Open Thread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-90633\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/other-men-300x281.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"281\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m putting this up with the invitation to one and all to join in a discussion about the Democrats and their universal hoplophia.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d like to remind everyone that I live in a state with extremely tough, active gun ownership laws, something that should stop criminals in their tracks, and yet the level of gun-related crimes in the city of Chicago has risen exponentially in years of Rahm Emmanuel&#8217;s slacker dude oversight of Chicago, and continues to rise with the new mayor whose last name is Lightfoot. She and Ted Cruz are butting heads with each other over gun control: she blames the guns, as if they can jump up and fire off ammo at everyone when, in fact, they are inanimate objects that can&#8217;t act without an operator pulling the trigger. (Just glad that WGN has news online these days.)<\/p>\n<p>How many times does it have to be said that people shoot other people. Guns don&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>So let&#8217;s have that discussion on this WOT, and all of you have a nice weekend.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m putting this up with the invitation to one and all to join in a discussion &hellip; <a title=\"Weekend Open Thread\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=90716\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Weekend Open Thread<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":653,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[220,82,156,221],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-floggings-will-continue-until-morale-improves","category-gun-grabbing-fascists","category-guns","category-open-thread"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90716","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\/653"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=90716"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90717,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90716\/revisions\/90717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}