{"id":5587,"date":"2011-05-13T05:27:03","date_gmt":"2011-05-13T12:27:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=5587"},"modified":"2011-05-13T05:27:03","modified_gmt":"2011-05-13T12:27:03","slug":"the-gun-nut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/13\/the-gun-nut\/","title":{"rendered":"The &#8220;gun nut&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A little levity, courtesy of C^2 (this is an email forward; I have no idea of its origins):<\/p>\n<p>You may have heard on the news about a southern California man that was put under 72-hour psychiatric observation when it was found that he owned 100 guns and allegedly had (by rough estimate) 1 million rounds of ammunition stored in his home. The house also featured a secret escape tunnel.<\/p>\n<p>My favorite quote from the dimwit television reporter: &#8220;Wow! He has &#8230;. about a million machine gun bullets.&#8221; The headline referred to it as a &#8220;massive weapons cache.&#8221; BTW, I am dubious about the pile of ammunition boxes and cans that they showed. It looked big enough to contain no more than about 100,000 rounds, unless there was a lot of .22 rimfire ammo.<\/p>\n<p>However, by southern California standards, even someone owning 100,000 rounds would be called &#8220;mentally unstable.&#8221; Just imagine if he lived elsewhere:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In Arizona , . .. . he&#8217;d be called &#8220;an avid gun collector.&#8221;\n<li>In Texas , . .. . he&#8217;d be called &#8220;a novice gun collector.&#8221;\n<li>In Utah , . .. .he&#8217;d be called &#8220;moderately well prepared,&#8221; but they&#8217;d probably reserve judgment until they made sure that he had a corresponding quantity of stored food.\n<li>In Wyoming , . .. .he&#8217;d be called &#8220;The neighborhood &#8216;Go-To&#8217; guy.&#8221;\n<li>In Idaho , . . . he&#8217;d be called &#8220;a likely gubernatorial candidate.&#8221;\n<li>And, in Montana , . . . he&#8217;d be called &#8220;an eligible bachelor.&#8221;\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A little levity, courtesy of C^2 (this is an email forward; I have no idea of its origins): You may have heard on the news about a southern California man that was put under 72-hour psychiatric observation when it was found that he owned 100 guns and allegedly had (by rough estimate) 1 million rounds of ammunition stored in his home. The house also featured a secret escape tunnel. My favorite quote from the dimwit television reporter: &#8220;Wow! He has &#8230;. about a million machine gun bullets.&#8221; The headline referred to it as a &#8220;massive weapons cache.&#8221; BTW, I am&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/13\/the-gun-nut\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The &#8220;gun nut&#8221;<\/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":[12,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guns-and-gun-rights","category-humor","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5587","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=5587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5587\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}