{"id":1776,"date":"2014-03-10T17:42:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-10T17:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2014\/03\/10\/comment-of-day-7\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:23:47","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:23:47","slug":"comment-of-day-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=1776","title":{"rendered":"Comment Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:12104,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/defense-training.com\\\/dti\\\/quips&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20151208033147\\\/http:\\\/\\\/defense-training.com:80\\\/dti\\\/quips\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-19 09:02:14&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-27 05:51:44&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-27 05:51:44&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>\nThe comment of the day comes from trainer John Farnam of Defense Training International. John is well known for his<a href=\"http:\/\/defense-training.com\/dti\/quips\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> &#8220;quips&#8221;.<\/a>&nbsp;In today&#8217;s &#8220;quip&#8221;, John is discussing the language our opponents use like &#8220;governmental interest&#8221; and &#8220;public safety&#8221; and how the police &#8220;need&#8221; semi-automatic firearms with standard capacity magazines while we don&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>Regarding semi-auto M4 carbines, John has this to say:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"tr_bq\"><p>\n<i>In a final act of hypocrisy, M4s issued to state police are always<br \/>\n called &#8220;Patrol Carbines&#8221; Those exact, same M4s, when owned by private<br \/>\ncitizens,  are always called &#8220;assault weapons.&#8221;<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I think that captures the essence of the argument about the perversion of language by our opponents.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The comment of the day comes from trainer John Farnam of Defense Training International. John is well known for&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":[142,1013],"class_list":["post-1776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-comment-of-the-day","tag-john-farnam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1776","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=1776"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9767,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1776\/revisions\/9767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}