{"id":545,"date":"2002-10-26T21:06:18","date_gmt":"2002-10-27T05:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ogre.nu\/wp\/?p=545"},"modified":"2005-07-27T20:59:20","modified_gmt":"2005-07-28T04:59:20","slug":"the-unorganized-militia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=545","title":{"rendered":"the unorganized militia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=http:\/\/www.genehealy.com\/archives\/002481.php#002481>Gene Healy<\/a>, whom I had not read before:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n Forty armed citizens out of 700 in the audience might have made it quite difficult for the [Chechen] terrorists to secure the [theatre] building. Sure, a lot of folks might have been killed in the firefight, but a lot more would have been able to escape in the chaos. Sixty-seven died anyway in a rescue attempt that might have gone a lot worse.<\/p>\n<p>Al Gore attacked candidate Bush for signing a CCW bill in Texas that didn&#8217;t prohibit carrying guns into churches. But if Chechen methods are replicated by Al Qaeda cells here, that looks to me like a solid argument for guns in churches, bars, shopping malls, and schools.\n <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> I like to say, whenever someone brings up something like Columbine: &#8220;Gun control worked perfectly. Nobody shot back.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gene Healy, whom I had not read before: Forty armed citizens out of 700 in the audience might have made it quite difficult for the [Chechen] terrorists to secure the [theatre] building. Sure, a lot of folks might have been &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=545\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-545","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\/545","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}