{"id":16213,"date":"2014-01-12T13:15:39","date_gmt":"2014-01-12T21:15:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=16213"},"modified":"2014-01-12T13:15:39","modified_gmt":"2014-01-12T21:15:39","slug":"giving-dick-metcalf-a-taste-of-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/12\/giving-dick-metcalf-a-taste-of-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Giving Dick Metcalf a taste of history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As <a href=\"http:\/\/booksbikesboomsticks.blogspot.com\/2014\/01\/you-dont-ever-take-sides-against-family.html\" target=\"_blank\">Tam says<\/a>, with anti-gun former gunwriter Dick Metcalf recently whining to the <i>New York Times<\/i> about how unreasonable and intolerant the rest of the gunworld is for getting his arse kicked out of his formerly cushy gig with <i>Guns &#038; Ammo<\/i>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swatmag.com\/articles\/view\/gun-media-calls-for-more-firearms-regulation\" target=\"_blank\">my February 2014 <em>S.W.A.T.<\/em> article<\/a>, newly online, is pretty timely.<\/p>\n<p>I could have gone on for pages, fisking <a href=\"http:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/2013\/11\/09\/guns-ammo-fires-dick-metcalf-resigns-after-anti-gun-rights-column\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mr. Moronic Metcalf&#8217;s one-page G&#038;A fiasco<\/a>. His general ignorance of history, of the fight for rights, and even of grammar, was mindbending. But inspired and helped along by a Certain Formerly Famous Person in the gun-rights movement (who chooses these days to stay out of the limelight and out of trouble), I focused on Machiavelli, the meaning of words, and the origins of the militia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Tam says, with anti-gun former gunwriter Dick Metcalf recently whining to the New York Times about how unreasonable and intolerant the rest of the gunworld is for getting his arse kicked out of his formerly cushy gig with Guns &#038; Ammo, my February 2014 S.W.A.T. article, newly online, is pretty timely. I could have gone on for pages, fisking Mr. Moronic Metcalf&#8217;s one-page G&#038;A fiasco. His general ignorance of history, of the fight for rights, and even of grammar, was mindbending. But inspired and helped along by a Certain Formerly Famous Person in the gun-rights movement (who chooses these&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/12\/giving-dick-metcalf-a-taste-of-history\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Giving Dick Metcalf a taste of history<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guns-and-gun-rights","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}