{"id":2289,"date":"2005-05-23T19:10:00","date_gmt":"2005-05-23T19:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=2289"},"modified":"2018-06-07T12:46:39","modified_gmt":"2018-06-07T17:46:39","slug":"damn-bayonet-lugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2005\/05\/23\/damn-bayonet-lugs\/","title":{"rendered":"Damn Bayonet Lugs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Photo and caption from Saturday, May 21, <i>St. Louis Post-Dispatch<\/i>:<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/AKBoy.jpg\" target=\"_new\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/AKBoy.jpg\" width=\"600\" alt=\"A boy and his assault weapon\"><br \/><font size=\"1\"><i>Click for full size<\/i><\/font><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Note the boy has an <i>assault rifle<\/i>, an obvious <i>assault weapon<\/i>.  Militants carry assault weapons.  Law-abiding citizens wouldn&#8217;t carry assault weapons.  The government should ban them.<\/p>\n<p>I mean, damn, the kid&#8217;s got a wholly automatic rifle, and the Associated Press or the <i>Post-Dispatch<\/i> unknowingly or knowingly bestowed the term <i>assault weapon<\/i> on it.  Nothing like calling slavery freedom and war peace to keep the discourse straight.<\/p>\n<p>So do can the caption writer not differentiate, or does he\/she merely want you to be unable to, gentle reader?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo and caption from Saturday, May 21, St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Click for full size Note the boy has an assault rifle, an obvious assault weapon. Militants carry assault weapons. Law-abiding citizens wouldn&#8217;t carry assault weapons. The government should ban them. I mean, damn, the kid&#8217;s got a wholly automatic rifle, and the Associated Press or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-st-louis-post-dispatch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2289"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20075,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2289\/revisions\/20075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}