{"id":344,"date":"2020-06-30T18:51:08","date_gmt":"2020-06-30T18:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/?p=344"},"modified":"2020-06-30T18:51:08","modified_gmt":"2020-06-30T18:51:08","slug":"keep-your-finger-off-the-trigger-and-point-the-gun-in-a-safe-direction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/2020\/06\/30\/keep-your-finger-off-the-trigger-and-point-the-gun-in-a-safe-direction\/","title":{"rendered":"Keep your finger off the trigger and point the gun in a safe direction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;ve seen the video of the armed St. Louis couple, and I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;ve seen lots of jawing on both sides. <\/p>\n<p>A few points. <\/p>\n<p>1. The mob broke down a gate, trespassed and threatened the couple. <\/p>\n<p>2. They had every right to defend themselves. <\/p>\n<p>3. For the sake of basic gun safety, they should not have pointed their weapons at anyone, or put their fingers on the triggers. <\/p>\n<p>4. If you were confronted with a mob like that, you would want an assault rifle, or a substantial weapon with a large magazine. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;ve seen the video of the armed St. Louis couple, and I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;ve seen lots of jawing on both sides. A few points. 1. The mob broke down a gate, trespassed and threatened the couple. 2. They had every right to defend themselves. 3. For the sake of basic gun safety, they &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/2020\/06\/30\/keep-your-finger-off-the-trigger-and-point-the-gun-in-a-safe-direction\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Keep your finger off the trigger and point the gun in a safe direction&#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-344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344","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=344"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":345,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344\/revisions\/345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}