{"id":4929,"date":"2018-04-25T23:42:05","date_gmt":"2018-04-26T03:42:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=4929"},"modified":"2018-04-25T23:47:21","modified_gmt":"2018-04-26T03:47:21","slug":"weapons-of-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/weapons-of-war\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cWEAPONS OF WAR\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cUncle Jed, put down thet thar whittlin\u2019 knife! You Boy Scouts \u2013 empty your pockets and step away from your nefarious tools of death!\u00a0 And you, there \u2013 Leatherman me no Leatherman stuff, you\u2019re obviously carrying a multi-bladed, high capacity assault weapon! Did you say Swiss <em>Army <\/em>knife?!? So you <em>confess <\/em>you have a high capacity assault weapon of war?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Yes, ladies and gentlemen, the Mayor of London, England is apparently embarrassed that his supposedly genteel and smugly disarmed metropolis recently exceeded New York City in its murder rate.\u00a0 Edged weapons are currently the thugs\u2019 choice there, so Mayor Sadiq Khan believes a crackdown is in order.\u00a0 He has supposedly declared pocket knives to be \u201cweapons of war,\u201d and ordered the metropolitan police to go to stop-and-frisk to get them off the streets.<\/p>\n<p>This, despite the fact that the mayor had previously denounced stop-and-frisk as a racist and Islamophobic abrogation of civil rights.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.london.gov.uk\/city-hall-blog\/heres-what-mayor-doing-tackle-violent-crime\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> It seems that hypocrisy is the stock in trade of prohibitionists.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mayor Khan tweeted, \u201cNo excuses: there is never a reason to carry a knife. Anyone who does will be caught, and they will feel the full force of the law.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I suppose we shouldn\u2019t be surprised. In our own country, the gun prohibition lobby has been calling semiautomatic AR15s \u201cweapons of war\u201d because they superficially resemble true assault rifles, the M16 and M4, which are selective fire and can fire full automatic, a\/k\/a machine gun mode. That is blatant BS: I know of no nation issuing its troops semiautomatic AR15s.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps calling pocket knives \u201cweapons of war\u201d is the (il)logical extreme of the prohibitionists\u2019 faulty reasoning.<\/p>\n<p>Talk about \u201cjumping the shark.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cUncle Jed, put down thet thar whittlin\u2019 knife! You Boy Scouts \u2013 empty your pockets and step away from your nefarious tools of death!\u00a0 And you, there \u2013 Leatherman me no Leatherman stuff, you\u2019re obviously carrying a multi-bladed, high capacity assault weapon! Did you say Swiss Army knife?!? So you confess you have a high [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":6428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4929","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4929","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4929"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4930,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4929\/revisions\/4930"}],"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=4929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}