{"id":597,"date":"2004-01-14T00:31:00","date_gmt":"2004-01-14T00:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=597"},"modified":"2018-08-09T16:29:20","modified_gmt":"2018-08-09T21:29:20","slug":"597","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2004\/01\/14\/597\/","title":{"rendered":"Gun Bans Aren’t Enough"},"content":{"rendered":"

Let’s see. New York’s banned guns. They’ve tried to ban toy guns. And it’s still not enough to stop criminals<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Dan Looney, a chief prosecutor with Nassau County, said that each time Trantel pulled off a heist, he handed the tellers a note saying he had a gun<\/b>.<\/p>\n

“He produced a robbery demand note detailing the threat of using a firearm and thereby placing the tellers in fear of injury from the use of the weapon,” Looney said.<\/p>\n

Authorities do not know “whether, in fact, he had a loaded gun,” and no weapon was recovered, Looney said. The prosecutor declined to comment on a motive in the case.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Criminals are committing crimes and frightening innocent people with just the word gun<\/i><\/b>. Therefore, in the interest of public safety, we should strike it from our language and make it a felony to use or write the word gun.<\/p>\n

Of course, since criminals can convey the meaning with synonyms, such as pistol, rifle, niner, firearm, and so on, so of course, they’ll have to go, too.<\/p>\n

And since they can, at least some of them can, convey the proper image through metaphors, such as hand-held volcano that erupts leaden lava<\/i>, we’ll have to banish the entire concept<\/i> of personal projectile weapons. Maybe taking it back to slingshots and atl-atls is a little much, but it’s for The Children somehow, so we must<\/i>!<\/p>\n

Report to public reeducation camps immediately.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Let’s see. New York’s banned guns. They’ve tried to ban toy guns. And it’s still not enough to stop criminals: Dan Looney, a chief prosecutor with Nassau County, said that each time Trantel pulled off a heist, he handed the tellers a note saying he had a gun. “He produced a robbery demand note detailing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597","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=597"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22422,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597\/revisions\/22422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}