{"id":4190,"date":"2013-05-10T08:24:45","date_gmt":"2013-05-10T12:24:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.urbin.net\/blog\/?p=4190"},"modified":"2013-05-10T08:24:45","modified_gmt":"2013-05-10T12:24:45","slug":"quote-of-the-day-132","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/politics\/quote-of-the-day-132\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201c\u00a0I&#8217;ve\u00a0come to realize after the Sandy Hook shooting that the reason we can\u2019t have a rational gun debate is because the anti-gun side pre-supposes that their pro-gun opponents must first accept that guns are bad in order to have a discussion about guns in the first place. Before we even start the conversation, we\u2019re the bad guys and we have to admit it. Without accepting that guns are bad and supplicating themselves to the anti-gunner, the pro-gunner can\u2019t get a word in edgewise, and is quickly reduced to being called a murderer, or a low, immoral and horrible human being. You might think that\u2019s hyperbole too, but I\u2019ve experienced it personally from people I considered friends until recently. . . . How can we \u2018gun people\u2019 honestly be expected to come to the table with anti-gunners when anti-gunners are willfully stupid about guns, and openly hate, despise and ridicule those of us who own them? There must first be respect and trust \u2014 even just a little \u2014 before there can be even the beginnings of legitimate discussion of the issue.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iowastatedaily.com\/opinion\/article_1c144792-b36d-11e2-8ac6-001a4bcf887a.html?TNNoMobile\">Barry Snell<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pjmedia.com\/instapundit\/168315\/\">HT to Mr Reynolds<\/a>, who points out, &#8220;As with most lefty causes, the key driver is a craving for moral superiority, usually driven by oikophobia.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201c\u00a0I&#8217;ve\u00a0come to realize after the Sandy Hook shooting that the reason we can\u2019t have a rational gun debate is because the anti-gun side pre-supposes that their pro-gun opponents must first accept that guns are bad in order to have a discussion about guns in the first place. Before we even start the conversation, we\u2019re the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[19,22],"tags":[479,480,621,660],"class_list":["post-4190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-rkba","tag-leftist-hate-speech","tag-leftist-hypocrisy","tag-politics","tag-rkba"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pab4zg-15A","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}