{"id":1285,"date":"2015-07-10T12:15:00","date_gmt":"2015-07-10T12:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2015\/07\/10\/can-you-say-ironic\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:25:40","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:25:40","slug":"can-you-say-ironic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=1285","title":{"rendered":"Can You Say Ironic?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:10396,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.washingtonpost.com\\\/politics\\\/clinton-makes-big-gun-control-pitch-marking-shift-in-presidential-politics\\\/2015\\\/07\\\/09\\\/4309232c-2580-11e5-b72c-2b7d516e1e0e_story.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:10397,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/blogs.reuters.com\\\/jimyoung&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20160504223504\\\/http:\\\/\\\/blogs.reuters.com\\\/jimyoung\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-18 21:26:03&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-18 21:26:03&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/clinton-makes-big-gun-control-pitch-marking-shift-in-presidential-politics\/2015\/07\/09\/4309232c-2580-11e5-b72c-2b7d516e1e0e_story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Washington Post ran a story<\/a> yesterday regarding Hillary Clinton&#8217;s new push for gun control. They note that this marks a shift in presidential politics and is an effort on her part to out-lefty Bernie Sanders who has actually been not (too) bad on gun issues.<\/p>\n<p>Hillary thinks it is good politics to run on restricting gun rights. What struck me about the story is this photo by <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.reuters.com\/jimyoung\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jim Young of Reuters<\/a> that is used to illustrate the story.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/2015-07-07T215839Z_01_JEY901_RTRIDSP_3_USA-ELECTION-CLINTON-4622-1024x641.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/2015-07-07T215839Z_01_JEY901_RTRIDSP_3_USA-ELECTION-CLINTON-4622-1024x641.jpg\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Hillary is standing in front of the Iowa state flag which contains the motto, &#8220;Our liberties we prize and our rights we will maintain.&#8221; If that isn&#8217;t irony, I don&#8217;t know what is!<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know if the photographer is a gun guy but he, either consciously or unconsciously, just illustrated the conflict between supporting Clinton and supporting Constitutional rights. The two just don&#8217;t go together.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Post ran a story yesterday regarding Hillary Clinton&#8217;s new push for gun control. They note that this&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":2,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[45,1493,2212,1645],"class_list":["post-1285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-gun-control","tag-hillary-clinton","tag-irony","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1285"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10387,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1285\/revisions\/10387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}