{"id":3953,"date":"2013-01-06T11:08:16","date_gmt":"2013-01-06T16:08:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=3953"},"modified":"2013-01-06T11:08:48","modified_gmt":"2013-01-06T16:08:48","slug":"guns-are-people-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=3953","title":{"rendered":"Guns are people too"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-Czkjqd8q7iA\/UIQnvVKDIdI\/AAAAAAAAC4E\/KaoQ8ADf_u4\/s1600\/segregation-drinking-fountain-400x300.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fig. 1: an apt analogy for gun control<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Unsurprisingly, there has been some talk recently about whether to ban certain types of firearms. \u00c2\u00a0This produced <a href=\"http:\/\/tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2013\/01\/nra_marion_hammer_guns_racism.php?ref=fpnewsfeed\">the following<\/a> comment from a former president of the National Rifle Association:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153And they even admit this is about banning the ugliest guns, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s about cosmetics and it has nothing to do about how a firearm works,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d host Ginny Simone said toward the end of the segment.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Well, you know,\u00c2\u00a0banning <strong>people and things<\/strong> because of the way they look went out a long time ago,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Hammer responded. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153But here they are again. The color of a gun. The way it looks. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s just bad politics.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>People <strong>and<\/strong> things?<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.balloon-juice.com\/2013\/01\/05\/nra-ex-president-compares-gun-control-to-racism\/\">Balloon Juice<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unsurprisingly, there has been some talk recently about whether to ban certain types of firearms. \u00c2\u00a0This produced the following comment from a former president of the National Rifle Association: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153And they even admit this is about banning the ugliest guns, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s about cosmetics and it has nothing to do about how a firearm works,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d host &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=3953\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Guns are people too<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1508,916,1561,1563,1562],"class_list":["post-3953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-bad-analogies","tag-gun-control","tag-marion-hammer","tag-national-rifle-association","tag-nra"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3953"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3956,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3953\/revisions\/3956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}