{"id":2131,"date":"2009-08-21T15:37:32","date_gmt":"2009-08-21T19:37:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=2131"},"modified":"2009-08-21T16:06:16","modified_gmt":"2009-08-21T20:06:16","slug":"packing-iron-before-the-cameras","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2009\/08\/21\/packing-iron-before-the-cameras\/","title":{"rendered":"Packing Iron Before the Cameras"},"content":{"rendered":"

Follow this link<\/strong><\/a> to the above titled New York Times editorial.\u00a0 I would be willing to bet that the Worcester T & G, a child publication of the NYT, will come up with a diametrically opposed editorial.<\/p>\n

Where the NYT says:<\/p>\n

We are all familiar with the right to bear arms and the noisome extremes indulged by its zealots. But is there no sense of simple respect due the nation\u2019s elected leader when he ventures forth among the citizenry?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Worcester T & G will probably point out that often no such respect was granted George W. Bush.<\/p>\n

Putting on my rational hat that overcomes my emotions, I will own up to the fact that I countered the items in the Worcester T & G that made the case for respect for George W. Bush.\u00a0 Therefore, it seems that I have to agree that just because Barack Obama is President, citizens do not owe any respect to Barack Obama that they do not feel.<\/p>\n

Similarly, I guess that if I say claims that pushing first amendment rights too far are unjustified, how can I claim that those pushing second amendment rights to the extreme are going too far? At least in this case,\u00a0 I want to feel justified in saying that pushing second amendment rights is more dangerous.<\/p>\n

It is enough to make a person’s head spontaneously explode.<\/p>\n

Can someone come to my rescue to prevent the explosion?<\/p>\n

As the book, “How We Decide” readily admits some emotions should be overcome by the rational side of our brain and some emotions should be trusted no matter what the rational side of our brain thinks.\u00a0 How on earth do we decide which is which?<\/p>\n

I credit\u00a0 Arthur Bushkin’s facebook posting<\/strong><\/a> for giving me the link to the New York Times editorial and for prompting me to write this post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Follow this link to the above titled New York Times editorial.\u00a0 I would be willing to bet that the Worcester T & G, a child publication of the NYT, will come up with a diametrically opposed editorial. Where the NYT says: We are all familiar with the right to bear arms and the noisome extremes […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2131","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2131"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2133,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2131\/revisions\/2133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}