{"id":28641,"date":"2024-07-18T17:06:53","date_gmt":"2024-07-18T21:06:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=28641"},"modified":"2024-07-18T17:06:53","modified_gmt":"2024-07-18T21:06:53","slug":"spoons-make-people-fat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=28641","title":{"rendered":"Spoons make people fat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some nitwit over at Politico <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2024\/07\/17\/trump-shooting-rnc-gun-control-00169179\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">notes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;Republicans have blamed an array of people and dynamics for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/elections\/2024\/07\/13\/donald-trump-shot-gunman-what-we-know\/74396996007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the attempted assassination of Donald Trump<\/a> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cw0y9xljv2yo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Democrats\u2019 rhetoric<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/us\/secret-service-spotted-trump-rally-shooter-on-roof-20-minutes-before-gunfire-erupted\/ar-BB1q8JZa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Secret Service lapses<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/07\/18\/us-news\/trump-shooter-thomas-crooks-may-have-suffered-from-mental-illness\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the gunman\u2019s mental health<\/a>. One thing they haven\u2019t blamed is guns &#8230;&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That&#8217;s because blaming guns for this would be the same as blaming spoons for making people fat.\u00a0 Normal people understand this.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"ssb_list_wrapper\"><li class=\"fb2\" style=\"width:135px\"><iframe src=\"\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gunpoliticsny.com%2F%3Fp%3D28641&amp;layout=button_count&amp;action=like&amp;show_faces=false&amp;share=true&amp;width=135&amp;height=21&amp;appId=307091639398582\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden;  width:150px; height:21px;\" allowTransparency=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/li><li class=\"twtr\" style=\"width:90px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-url=\"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=28641\">&nbsp;<\/a><script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=\/^http:\/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+':\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');<\/script><\/li><li class=\"gplus\" style=\"width:68px\"><div class=\"g-plusone\" data-size=\"medium\" data-href=\"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=28641\"><\/div><\/li><li class=\"ssb_linkedin\" style=\"width:64px\"><script src=\"\/\/platform.linkedin.com\/in.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\">lang: en_US<\/script><script type=\"IN\/Share\" data-url=\"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=28641\" data-counter=\"right\"><\/script><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some nitwit over at Politico notes: &#8220;Republicans have blamed an array of people and dynamics for the attempted assassination of Donald Trump \u2014 Democrats\u2019 rhetoric, Secret Service lapses, the gunman\u2019s mental health. One thing they haven\u2019t blamed is guns &#8230;&#8221; That&#8217;s because blaming guns for this would be the same as blaming spoons for making [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<ul class=\"ssb_list_wrapper\"><li class=\"fb2\" style=\"width:135px\"><iframe src=\"\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gunpoliticsny.com%2F%3Fp%3D28641&amp;layout=button_count&amp;action=like&amp;show_faces=false&amp;share=true&amp;width=135&amp;height=21&amp;appId=307091639398582\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden;  width:150px; height:21px;\" allowTransparency=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/li><li class=\"twtr\" style=\"width:90px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-url=\"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=28641\">&nbsp;<\/a><script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=\/^http:\/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+':\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');<\/script><\/li><li class=\"gplus\" style=\"width:68px\"><div class=\"g-plusone\" data-size=\"medium\" data-href=\"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=28641\"><\/div><\/li><li class=\"ssb_linkedin\" style=\"width:64px\"><script src=\"\/\/platform.linkedin.com\/in.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\">lang: en_US<\/script><script type=\"IN\/Share\" data-url=\"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=28641\" data-counter=\"right\"><\/script><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,43,15,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections","category-elections2024","category-moonbattery","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28641"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28645,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28641\/revisions\/28645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}