{"id":1798,"date":"2021-10-22T15:41:31","date_gmt":"2021-10-22T15:41:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/?p=1798"},"modified":"2021-10-22T15:41:31","modified_gmt":"2021-10-22T15:41:31","slug":"i-hate-things-that-are-not-quite-guns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/2021\/10\/22\/i-hate-things-that-are-not-quite-guns\/","title":{"rendered":"I hate things that are not quite guns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-us-canada-59005500\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alec Baldwin fatally shoots woman with prop gun on movie set<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>What a horrible story. My condolences to the families. <\/p>\n<p>I grew up shooting. When I was a boy, my dad took me to a range on a military base every week. I was surrounded by gruff old men who would yell at you if you did the slightest thing wrong. Shooting without checking that everyone had their ear protection on was enough to get reamed out. <\/p>\n<p>Guns were serious business, and you&#8217;d better follow the rules! <\/p>\n<p>The idea of goofing off with a gun was conditioned out of me. <\/p>\n<p>Consequently, I&#8217;ve never liked things that are almost guns &#8212; like BB guns. People treat them as toys. I believe there should be a sharp distinction between things that are obviously toys and things that are obviously guns. <\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know much about prop guns, but in an age of CGI and such, I don&#8217;t see why they&#8217;re necessary. You can add the flash and the smoke later. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alec Baldwin fatally shoots woman with prop gun on movie set What a horrible story. My condolences to the families. I grew up shooting. When I was a boy, my dad took me to a range on a military base every week. I was surrounded by gruff old men who would yell at you if &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/2021\/10\/22\/i-hate-things-that-are-not-quite-guns\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;I hate things that are not quite guns&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1798"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1799,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1798\/revisions\/1799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}