{"id":350044,"date":"2018-02-27T16:52:40","date_gmt":"2018-02-27T15:52:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/happiness-is-a-warm-gun\/"},"modified":"2018-02-27T16:52:40","modified_gmt":"2018-02-27T15:52:40","slug":"happiness-is-a-warm-gun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/happiness-is-a-warm-gun\/","title":{"rendered":"Happiness is a Warm Gun"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><em>John Lennon\u00a0wrote the song in 1968; twelve years later he was murdered. His\u00a0killer\u00a0was a man, a young man armed with a crazed fantasy and a warm gun.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">*****<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019d be a little creeped out upon finding that\u00a0your Uncle Joe or the neighbor two houses down had a penchant for child pornography, wouldn\u2019t you?\u00a0 You\u2019d know, or at least suspect, what was on his mind if you caught his eyes lingering for\u00a0more than a second on your kid.\u00a0 Even if it was your heretofore favorite and\u00a0\u201charmless\u201d Uncle Joe, you\u2019d be forever\u00a0fearful and distrusting; you\u2019d know he had dangerous proclivities, and your child would never be left\u00a0alone in his presence.<\/p>\n<p>What if instead of a child fetish, you learned your neighbor (or Uncle Joe) had a fascination for guns?\u00a0 It\u2019s not so scary or repugnant, right?\u00a0\u00a0Actually, you\u2019d have already known because Joe or your neighbor would likely\u00a0have shared the fascination long ago.\u00a0 It\u2019s socially acceptable after all; you might walk away with a bit of angst, but it would dissipate and you\u2019d probably not dwell on it for long.<\/p>\n<p>What if instead of guns, your neighbor collected\u00a0knives: suppose he had a prototype of every slicing and stabbing tool invented by man; examples of every weapon or instrument used to cut or mutilate the human body.\u00a0 Would that creep you out a little more?\u00a0\u00a0Why?\u00a0 Both collectors are fascinated with killing instruments.\u00a0 Guns are\u00a0clearly the more dangerous and lethal, so shouldn\u2019t you feel more jitters&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/2018\/02\/happiness-is-a-warm-gun\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Lennon\u00a0wrote the song in 1968; twelve years later he was murdered. His\u00a0killer\u00a0was a man, a young man armed with a crazed fantasy and a warm gun. ***** You\u2019d be a little creeped out upon finding that\u00a0your Uncle Joe or the neighbor two houses down had a penchant for child pornography, wouldn\u2019t you?\u00a0 You\u2019d know, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-350044","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=350044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350044\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}