{"id":365,"date":"2003-07-30T11:02:14","date_gmt":"2003-07-30T11:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/?p=365"},"modified":"2003-07-30T11:02:14","modified_gmt":"2003-07-30T11:02:14","slug":"proactive-dissuasion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/archives\/365","title":{"rendered":"Proactive dissuasion."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So it would appear that the Fed is <a title=\"CNN.com - Officials: Suicide airliner hijackings possible - Jul. 30, 2003\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2003\/US\/07\/29\/airline.warning\/index.html\">jangling the terrorism bell again<\/a>.<br \/>\nI say, we have freedom to bear arms, so let&#8217;s exploit it!  First, recall all planes where the windows and hulls aren&#8217;t <i>completely<\/i> bulletproof.  Next, on all the remaining flights you have the stewardesses hand out handguns and a license to kill in self-defense to each and every passenger as they board the plane.  The result: if someone tries to hijack the plane, they&#8217;ll be gunned down within seconds, and since the plane has been reinforced to serve as an indoor shooting range, you wouldn&#8217;t have any pesky stray bullets accidentally bringing down the whole circus.  <i>Viva la Heston!<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So it would appear that the Fed is jangling the terrorism bell again. I say, we have freedom to bear arms, so let&#8217;s exploit it! First, recall all planes where the windows and hulls aren&#8217;t completely bulletproof. Next, on all the remaining flights you have the stewardesses hand out handguns and a license to kill [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4e5QR-5T","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}