{"id":3430,"date":"2012-03-24T13:16:00","date_gmt":"2012-03-24T13:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2012\/03\/24\/quote-of-day_24-2\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:17:59","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:17:59","slug":"quote-of-day_24-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=3430","title":{"rendered":"Quote Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:16061,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/online.wsj.com\\\/article\\\/SB10001424052702304636404577299653783574154.html?mod=djemBestOfTheWeb_h&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20130121174525\\\/http:\\\/\\\/online.wsj.com\\\/article\\\/SB10001424052702304636404577299653783574154.html?mod=djemBestOfTheWeb_h&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-20 18:20:14&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-20 18:20:14&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:16062,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/freebeacon.com\\\/gun-boom-continues-despite-florida-shooting&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20131208154110\\\/http:\\\/\\\/freebeacon.com\\\/gun-boom-continues-despite-florida-shooting\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-20 18:20:17&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-20 18:20:17&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052702304636404577299653783574154.html?mod=djemBestOfTheWeb_h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">James Taranto writes the Best of the Web column<\/a> for the Wall Street Journal. He has the ability to drill down to the essence of a situation with just a very few words.<\/p>\n<p>A case in point which is the quote of the day.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i><b>Shouldn&#8217;t That Read &#8216;Because of . . .&#8217;?<\/b><br \/>\n&#8220;Despite calls for stricter guns laws in response to the shooting of Trayvon Martin, firearm stocks are soaring as gun companies struggle to keep up with high demand.&#8221;&#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/freebeacon.com\/gun-boom-continues-despite-florida-shooting\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Washington Free Beacon, March 22<\/a><\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Taranto writes the Best of the Web column for the Wall Street Journal. He has the ability to&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":[3126,507],"class_list":["post-3430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-james-taranto","tag-quote-of-the-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3430","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=3430"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7817,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3430\/revisions\/7817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}