{"id":34219,"date":"2024-03-20T17:39:11","date_gmt":"2024-03-20T17:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=34219"},"modified":"2024-03-20T17:39:16","modified_gmt":"2024-03-20T17:39:16","slug":"quote-of-the-day-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=34219","title":{"rendered":"Quote Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:1330,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/amzn.to\\\/3ILGQK0&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/Last-Campaign-Innocents-More-Book-ebook\\\/dp\\\/B0CTCY68B3?crid=3T6V7KTXEBNYY&amp;dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.RZX0q8QhTiUUF3CH2vIVtbXDnwIxLlDfy0Ecg9H-Twa8KPwX8g461I-HuAZgDcK-DzCZ5Fniw-qpECL6BdIcdAH7tEKayecLWnlAuD8Qjp7yopscCyLsZMFJBsp3-seQ_wDLFyb9FK-Bq7-dhEPPFhIYR48naZLDrNiN4yWc2LT2DNkbNwXTLBER-8cqMJpvSY42N4s0vqoYvZFsyBl7gaxFsYDUg9sUCN2h13jWvYOo9OS9i_BqP83Tejfj3z6YhHTAMrGYVrLeOIoqUecwP96O66MVciPo9BTL_9AnicI.UIBE18WSxsBcM6YA1BcAu3SgBiR0H_BOc7J7OLCoYxQ&amp;dib_tag=se&amp;keywords=andrew+wareham&amp;qid=1710955930&amp;sprefix=andrew+wareham+,aps,106&amp;sr=8-6&amp;linkCode=sl1&amp;tag=nolaonguanmo-20&amp;linkId=e1d77a7eb51b0858ce4e49405cdda6c1&amp;language=en_US&amp;ref_=as_li_ss_tl&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:1331,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/en.wikipedia.org\\\/wiki\\\/Common_Sense&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;}]'><\/div>\n<p>I stumbled across this quote while reading a novel by Andrew Wareham about the RAF in India during WWII. The protagonist, Group Captain Thomas Stark, is talking to his adjutant Henry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Good argument in itself, Henry! Whenever someone says &#8220;common sense&#8221; to me, I know it&#8217;s going to be bloody stupid. &#8220;Common sense&#8221; always means you&#8217;re too bloody lazy to learn the facts and apply the science, or too bloody stupid to make something up.<\/p>\n<cite><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3ILGQK0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Last Campaign by Andrew Wareham (#commision earned)<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>How many times have we heard the phrase &#8220;common sense&#8221; when applied to a new gun control law, regulation, or other governmental restriction on our rights? When a politician or gun control activist utters those words, I either turn them off or think &#8220;BOHICA!&#8221; I think <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Common_Sense\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Thomas Paine<\/a><\/strong> would be appalled at how American politicians have perverted this phrase.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I stumbled across this quote while reading a novel by Andrew Wareham about the RAF in India during WWII.&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":[6476,507,6474],"class_list":["post-34219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-common-sense","tag-quote-of-the-day","tag-thomas-paine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34219","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=34219"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34220,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34219\/revisions\/34220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}