{"id":34469,"date":"2013-03-08T15:07:59","date_gmt":"2013-03-08T19:07:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=34469"},"modified":"2013-03-08T15:30:05","modified_gmt":"2013-03-08T19:30:05","slug":"reality-check-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=34469","title":{"rendered":"Reality Check?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The elephant in the room is making enough noise to be heard, but nobody seems to be listening.<\/p>\n<p>As Jonn noted <a href=\"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=34462\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> one Senator is convinced that PTS(D) should preclude many vets from owning guns, but we may have a sitting senator who, in every way, could be pictured along side the very definition of the thing.<\/p>\n<p>John McCain is a bona fide American Hero. However, the very events that make him a hero would make him suspect in some eyes.\u00a0 Anyone doubt he could buy any gun he fancied?<\/p>\n<p>Please set aside <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/post-politics\/wp\/2013\/03\/08\/mccain-calls-paul-cruz-amash-wacko-birds\/\" target=\"_blank\">his current behavior<\/a>s because my point concerns a much broader dichotomy.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/allpsych.com\/disorders\/dsm.html\" target=\"_blank\">DSM<\/a> is evolving tool. And there is a rather lengthy history of defining any opposition as mentally ill.<\/p>\n<p>Calling a Senator or two a &#8220;Wacko Bird&#8221; is one thing, but where will it end for the rest of us?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The elephant in the room is making enough noise to be heard, but nobody seems to be listening. As Jonn noted here one Senator is convinced that PTS(D) should preclude many vets from owning guns, but we may have a sitting senator who, in every way, could be pictured along side the very definition of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":467,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[209,172,156,188],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teh-stoopid","category-geezer-alert","category-guns","category-reality-check"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-8XX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/467"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34469\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}