{"id":2123,"date":"2013-01-24T11:29:50","date_gmt":"2013-01-24T15:29:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=2123"},"modified":"2013-01-24T11:29:50","modified_gmt":"2013-01-24T15:29:50","slug":"poop-on-groupon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/poop-on-groupon\/","title":{"rendered":"POOP ON GROUPON"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Internet \u201cdaily deal site\u201d Groupon traffics in big discounts for classes, steak dinners, and a broad variety of products and services. Not being much of an Internet denizen, I\u2019ve never used them, though my significant other is one of their regulars.\u00a0\u00a0 No more, though; she just swore them off in anger after Groupon announced they\u2019ll have<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ecommercetimes.com\/story\/Groupon-Says-No-to-Guns-77144.html\" target=\"_blank\"> nothing to do with the gun industry or firearms instructors any longer<\/a>.\u00a0 Many gun owners are doing the same, and making it known to the company.<\/p>\n<p>When gun people get spit on, they express their displeasure appropriately.\u00a0 In state after state, when the concealed carry permit reform bills known as \u201cshall issue\u201d were passed, and carrying a gun became the right of all law-abiding citizens instead of the sole province of the wealthy, \u201cconnected\u201d elite, we saw the same pattern again and again.\u00a0 Stores and restaurants would put up \u201cno guns\u201d signs. Gun owners would withdraw their patronage, <i>and politely let management know why.\u00a0 <\/i>Soon, in most cases, the \u201cno guns\u201d signs disappeared.<\/p>\n<p>Panic, emotion, symbolism and elitism drive the anti-gun movement.\u00a0 Logic is the strongest weapon on the pro-gun side.\u00a0 We vote with our dollars as well as our ballots.\u00a0 A major East Coast outdoor sports exhibition allowed itself to be caught up in the current hysteria and decided it would be politically correct to ban modern sporting rifles from display there.\u00a0 The industry has answered: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theoutdoorwire.com\/features\/226982\" target=\"_blank\">multiple major sponsors have withdrawn their financial support.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For a healthy dose of the logic that is the engine of the pro-gun argument, check out a regular source of that no longer common commodity, Thomas Sowell, here: <a href=\"http:\/\/news.investors.com\/ibd-editorials-on-the-right\/012213-641461-gun-control-debate-governed-by-emotion-not-facts.htm#ixzz2IoYrp942\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/news.investors.com\/ibd-editorials-on-the-right\/012213-641461-gun-control-debate-governed-by-emotion-not-facts.htm#ixzz2IoYrp942<\/a> .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Internet \u201cdaily deal site\u201d Groupon traffics in big discounts for classes, steak dinners, and a broad variety of products and services. Not being much of an Internet denizen, I\u2019ve never used them, though my significant other is one of their regulars.\u00a0\u00a0 No more, though; she just swore them off in anger after Groupon announced [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":6428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,10],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2123","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-firearm-owners-civil-rights","8":"category-politics"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2123\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}