{"id":16541,"date":"2012-12-19T09:48:34","date_gmt":"2012-12-19T17:48:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slowpokecomics.com\/blog\/?p=1013"},"modified":"2012-12-19T09:48:34","modified_gmt":"2012-12-19T17:48:34","slug":"respect-for-the-deadly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=16541","title":{"rendered":"Respect for the Deadly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slowpokecomics.com\/strips\/gun-politics.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Gun control cartoon\" src=\"http:\/\/www.slowpokecomics.com\/strips\/gun-politics.png\" alt=\"cartoon about assault weapons and guns\" width=\"200\" \/><\/a>As soon as word broke of the shootings in Connecticut, the familiar cries not to &#8220;politicize&#8221; the tragedy ensued. I find this plea curious on a number of levels. First of all, the people urging others not to &#8220;politicize&#8221; gun violence seem to come from a particular political perspective with remarkable consistency. You might even say their request is a political statement itself. It&#8217;s almost like they think gun control advocacy comes from some random whim wholly detached from incidents such as this. But the ready availability of AR-15s does not happen in a vacuum.<\/p>\n<p>More details on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prwatch.org\/news\/2012\/12\/11908\/nraalec-reactionary-gun-agenda\" >NRA-ALEC connection<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As soon as word broke of the shootings in Connecticut, the familiar cries not to &#8220;politicize&#8221; the tragedy ensued. I find this plea curious on a number of levels. First of all, the people urging others not to &#8220;politicize&#8221; gun violence seem to come from a particular political perspective with remarkable consistency. You might even [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=16541\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[128],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated-feeds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16541\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}