{"id":13780,"date":"2020-06-03T11:54:17","date_gmt":"2020-06-03T17:54:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/macblaze.ca\/?p=13780"},"modified":"2020-06-03T11:56:46","modified_gmt":"2020-06-03T17:56:46","slug":"not-stupid-exactly-but","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/?p=13780","title":{"rendered":"Not stupid exactly but&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"vf-comment-container vf-comment \" data-id=\"5624600020087\">\n<p>I&#8217;m filing this under Stupid Human Tricks but it&#8217;s not exactly stupid. I&nbsp; am on the fence about gun control (although I agree that some guns really have no place in the marketplace). But this exchange from CBC.ca&#8217;s comments really exemplifies one of the core issues. It&#8217;s not about the gun, it&#8217;s about the social philosophy that states we should all have what we &#8220;want&#8221; if we manage to work hard enough or have enough money\/privilege\/connections. Spoiler alert: No, no we can&#8217;t always get what we want.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span class=\"vf-comment-html\"><span class=\"vf-comment-html-content\">XXXXXX<\/span><\/span> posted 18 minutes ago<br \/>\n<span class=\"vf-comment-html\"><span class=\"vf-comment-html-content\">Yeah, &#8217;cause I need an assault rifle to wipe out gophers and covid on my property.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div class=\"vf-row\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span class=\"vf-comment-html\"><span class=\"vf-comment-html-content\">Reply to @XXXXXX: Do you &#8220;need&#8221; a 10k Rolex? Or a car that does double the speed limit? This isn&#8217;t about need, it&#8217;s about want, and how every law abiding taxpaying citizen is entitled to want and subsequently own whatever property they desire.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div>\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/edmonton\/kenney-schweitzer-to-announce-new-plans-for-firearms-governance-enforcement-1.5596541\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">kenney-schweitzer-to-announce-new-plans-for-firearms-governance-enforcement<\/a><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m filing this under Stupid Human Tricks but it&#8217;s not exactly stupid. I&nbsp; am on the fence about gun control (although I agree that some guns really have no place in the marketplace). But this exchange from CBC.ca&#8217;s comments really exemplifies one of the core issues. It&#8217;s not about the gun, it&#8217;s about the social [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13780"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13780"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13782,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13780\/revisions\/13782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}