{"id":4910,"date":"2009-08-25T12:47:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-25T12:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=4910"},"modified":"2010-01-13T07:30:10","modified_gmt":"2010-01-13T13:30:10","slug":"when-you-outlaw-guns-hoodlums-use-pint-glasses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/25\/when-you-outlaw-guns-hoodlums-use-pint-glasses\/","title":{"rendered":"When You Outlaw Guns, Hoodlums Use Pint Glasses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Britain proves again that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iol.co.za\/index.php?click_id=29&#038;art_id=nw20090824224655680C644865&#038;set_id=1\" target=\"_blank\"><i>ad absurdum<\/i> defense of gun rights is valid<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul><i>British government plans to curb alcohol-fuelled violence by introducing plastic beer glasses in pubs are unlikely to be popular, the pub industry warned on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The Home Office (Interior Ministry) has commissioned a new design for plastic containers in an attempt to stop glasses being used as weapons, reports said.<\/p>\n<p>The plan is in response to official figures showing that 5 500 people are attacked with glasses and bottles every year in England and Wales.<\/i><\/ul>\n<p>You see, you cannot prevent violent people from violent acts by outlawing objects.  You just limit the liberty of the law-abiding.  Outlaw guns, the violent use knives and swords.  Outlaw knives and swords, the violent use bottles and beer mugs.  Outlaw bottles and beer mugs, what&#8217;s next?  Mandatory manicures and compulsory participation in the British NHS dental system?  Wait&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Britain proves again that ad absurdum defense of gun rights is valid: British government plans to curb alcohol-fuelled violence by introducing plastic beer glasses in pubs are unlikely to be popular, the pub industry warned on Monday. The Home Office (Interior Ministry) has commissioned a new design for plastic containers in an attempt to stop [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4910","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=4910"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5166,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4910\/revisions\/5166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}