{"id":4534,"date":"2013-11-07T18:06:17","date_gmt":"2013-11-07T23:06:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=4534"},"modified":"2013-11-07T18:06:17","modified_gmt":"2013-11-07T23:06:17","slug":"guns-ammo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=4534","title":{"rendered":"Guns &#038; Ammo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.treygarrison.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/church-jesus3-300x248.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"248\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Dick Metcalf, <del>an editor at <em>Guns &amp; Ammo <\/em>of all places<\/del>,\u00c2\u00a0argued <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Lets-Talk-Limits-by-Dick-Metcalf-of-Guns-Ammo-December-2013.pdf\">in an editorial<\/a> for the fairly obvious (well, at least <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2013\/01\/17\/us\/poll-americans-views-on-gun-control.html?_r=0\">to most people<\/a>) claim that even constitutionally guaranteed rights&#8211;such the rights to freedom of religion and to a well-regulated militia&#8211;ought to be, er, regulated some (but not very much). Not every instance of speech is allowed; to use the author&#8217;s example, you cannot shout &#8220;fire&#8221; in a crowded theater.<\/p>\n<p>Metcalf&#8217;s argument didn&#8217;t sit well with the <em>Guns&amp;Ammo<\/em> crowd. \u00c2\u00a0You can view selected responses <a href=\"http:\/\/gawker.com\/best-responses-from-gun-nuts-to-a-call-for-mild-gun-reg-1460088554\">here<\/a>. \u00c2\u00a0It would be charitable <a href=\"http:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=2082\">to nut pick<\/a> them. \u00c2\u00a0Why bother anyway, in response to their many reasonable interventions, <em>Guns &amp; Ammo<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gunsandammo.com\/2013\/11\/06\/response-december-2013-backpage-column\/\">fired Dick Metcalf<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Not surprising that a bunch of gun fanatics would turn to the ad baculum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dick Metcalf, an editor at Guns &amp; Ammo of all places,\u00c2\u00a0argued in an editorial for the fairly obvious (well, at least to most people) claim that even constitutionally guaranteed rights&#8211;such the rights to freedom of religion and to a well-regulated militia&#8211;ought to be, er, regulated some (but not very much). Not every instance of speech &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=4534\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Guns &#038; Ammo<\/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":[981,1793,1791,555,916,1792,533,1741],"class_list":["post-4534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-ad-baculum","tag-concealed-carry","tag-dick-metcalf","tag-freedom-of-speech","tag-gun-control","tag-guns-ammo","tag-nut-picking","tag-second-amendment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4534","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=4534"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4535,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4534\/revisions\/4535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}