{"id":20012,"date":"2013-03-15T20:42:07","date_gmt":"2013-03-15T20:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=20012"},"modified":"2013-03-20T17:20:27","modified_gmt":"2013-03-20T17:20:27","slug":"fireworks-guns-as-dual-purpose-devices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=20012","title":{"rendered":"Fireworks: guns as dual-purpose devices?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ by <strong>Charles Cameron<\/strong> &#8212; the merest trifle &#8212; concerning things that go flash and bang, with potentially lethal consequences ]<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s exuberance, exhilaration, it&#8217;s celebration, it&#8217;s party time.  It&#8217;s dangerous and stupid like the man says, and it&#8217;s unfortunate when your neighbors just happen to bear the brunt of it.  It&#8217;s also pretty much human nature, in some places it&#8217;s how you celebrate your daughter&#8217;s wedding&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>For your contemplative consideration:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/SPEC-fireworks.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/SPEC-fireworks.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"SPEC fireworks\" width=\"592\" height=\"621\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-20013\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/SPEC-fireworks.png 592w, https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/SPEC-fireworks-285x300.png 285w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 592px) 100vw, 592px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p>here&#8217;s the video to which the tweet in the upper panel above refers:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><object width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/vezR2dNg9xQ?hl=en_US&amp;version=3&amp;rel=0\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/vezR2dNg9xQ?hl=en_US&amp;version=3&amp;rel=0\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p>The quote in the lower panel comes from a New York Times Magazine article today, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/03\/17\/magazine\/is-this-where-the-third-intifada-will-start.html?_r=0&#038;pagewanted=all\">Is This Where the Third Intifada Will Start?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ by Charles Cameron &#8212; the merest trifle &#8212; concerning things that go flash and bang, with potentially lethal consequences ] . It&#8217;s exuberance, exhilaration, it&#8217;s celebration, it&#8217;s party time. It&#8217;s dangerous and stupid like the man says, and it&#8217;s unfortunate when your neighbors just happen to bear the brunt of it. It&#8217;s also pretty [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[526,887,864,656,635,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-charles-cameron","category-fatah","category-gun-control","category-idf","category-israel","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20012"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20121,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20012\/revisions\/20121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}