{"id":3046,"date":"2012-08-16T01:17:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-16T01:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2012\/08\/16\/huffpo-isnt-totally-worthless\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:19:18","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:19:18","slug":"huffpo-isnt-totally-worthless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=3046","title":{"rendered":"HuffPo Isn&#8217;t Totally Worthless"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:15303,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.huffingtonpost.com\\\/2012\\\/08\\\/15\\\/machine-gun-social-asheville-tea-party_n_1783475.html?utm_hp_ref=elections-2012&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.huffingtonpost.com\\\/2012\\\/08\\\/15\\\/machine-gun-social-asheville-tea-party_n_1783475.html?utm_hp_ref=elections-2012&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:15304,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/ashevilleteaparty.org\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2012\\\/07\\\/gun_flyer.jpg&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20210213084823\\\/https:\\\/\\\/ashevilleteaparty.org\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2012\\\/07\\\/gun_flyer.jpg&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-20 11:30:25&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-20 11:30:25&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>While I may think that Arianna Huffington is a parasite whose political leanings change with the wind and that her Huffington Post is usually full of tripe, it does have its uses. For example,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2012\/08\/15\/machine-gun-social-asheville-tea-party_n_1783475.html?utm_hp_ref=elections-2012\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> in a story about a local Tea Party group<\/a>, I found out that they are having a machine gun social.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ashevilleteaparty.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/gun_flyer.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"640\" src=\"http:\/\/ashevilleteaparty.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/gun_flyer.jpg\" width=\"521\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>\nI have shot at Bear Arms a number of times and it is a really nice range. Moreover, the prices for shooting the MP5 are cheaper than a lot of places that I&#8217;ve been. Sadly, I won&#8217;t be able to attend it as I&#8217;ll be at the Gun Rights Policy Conference in Orlando on that day.<\/p>\n<p>It is instructive to read the comments. For people who profess peace and love and gun control, they are amazingly violent in their thoughts and rhetoric.<\/p>\n<p>From Sushigirl:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Oh how quaint. I have an idea, blindfold all of them and let them shoot away.<br \/>\nActually I don&#8217;t mean that, I don&#8217;t want anyone to be hurt. But how stupid can these people be. Disgusting.<\/i> <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>From FredSanders who has 1910 fans which must mean he comments a lot:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>I hope they all blow themselves away defending each other from each other.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;From Cacey with the tagline &#8220;ignore rudeness, honor discussion&#8221;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>How boring is Asheville if this is the best fund raiser they came up with. A boring event for obviously boorish people.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You get the idea. I&#8217;m glad Cacey thinks Asheville is boring because it will mean one less tourist clogging the streets with their Obama bumpersticker-covered Priuses. <\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While I may think that Arianna Huffington is a parasite whose political leanings change with the wind and that&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":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[712,3674,3675,3435,3575],"class_list":["post-3046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-asheville","tag-asheville-tea-party","tag-bear-arms-range","tag-huffpo","tag-violent-rhetoric"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3046","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=3046"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8272,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3046\/revisions\/8272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}