{"id":45675,"date":"2021-05-14T01:00:09","date_gmt":"2021-05-14T05:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=45675"},"modified":"2021-05-14T09:08:34","modified_gmt":"2021-05-14T13:08:34","slug":"qotd-gun-safety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2021\/05\/14\/qotd-gun-safety\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Gun safety"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; padding: 0px 15px 10px 0px\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-48672\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png 400w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-50x50.png 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>The really hard part about firearm safety is that they&#8217;re Schrodinger devices. Every firearm is both loaded and unloaded at the same time.<\/p>\n<p>When you need them to be unloaded, they have a bullet in the chamber, ready to fire.<\/p>\n<p>When you <em>really<\/em> need one to be loaded, they make that really sad &#8220;click&#8221; which tells you you need more ammo.<\/p>\n<p>Chad Irby, posted to the comments at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wizbangblog.com\/2005\/03\/10\/video-of-gun-sa-1\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wizbang<\/a>, 2005-03-10. (original link had gone stale &#8230; updated with current archive link).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The really hard part about firearm safety is that they&#8217;re Schrodinger devices. Every firearm is both loaded and unloaded at the same time. When you need them to be unloaded, they have a bullet in the chamber, ready to fire. When you really need one to be loaded, they make that really sad &#8220;click&#8221; which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,41,663],"tags":[49,82],"class_list":["post-45675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humour","category-quotations","category-weapons","tag-guns","tag-murphy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-bSH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45675"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65722,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45675\/revisions\/65722"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}