{"id":1498,"date":"2004-11-10T08:08:12","date_gmt":"2004-11-10T16:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ogre.nu\/wp\/?p=1498"},"modified":"2015-04-20T11:22:32","modified_gmt":"2015-04-20T19:22:32","slug":"duelling-policies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=1498","title":{"rendered":"duelling policies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.markarkleiman.com\/archives\/afteraction_report_2004_\/2004\/11\/what_is_it_about_liberalism_that_sticks_in_the_nations_craw.php\">Mark A R Kleiman<\/a> says a number of sane things, but also this:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\nRequiring everyone who wants to have a gun to apply for a discretionary permit . . . serves no good purpose that I can see. The same is true of making a national registry of firearms and their owners. . . .<br \/>\nIf and when it becomes technically feasible, we also need a database of ballistic signatures so that a bullet or shell casing found at a crime scene can be linked to the gun that fired it, and that gun in turn to its last lawful purchaser.\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I deleted three paragraphs between, during which perhaps he changed his mind.<\/p>\n<p>Kleiman also mentions Social Darwinism and Herbert Spencer together, vaguely enough that I can&#8217;t tell whether or not he means to repeat the slander <a href=\"http:\/\/c4ss.org\/content\/20811\">refuted by Roderick Long<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark A R Kleiman says a number of sane things, but also this: Requiring everyone who wants to have a gun to apply for a discretionary permit . . . serves no good purpose that I can see. The same &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=1498\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-weapons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1498"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3462,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1498\/revisions\/3462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}