{"id":177,"date":"2013-05-05T05:55:31","date_gmt":"2013-05-05T12:55:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hofman.org\/?p=177"},"modified":"2013-05-05T06:00:24","modified_gmt":"2013-05-05T13:00:24","slug":"glenn-beck-it-is-the-man-not-the-gun-that-is-capable-of-committing-acts-of-evil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hofman.org\/?p=177","title":{"rendered":"Glenn Beck &#8211; It is the man, not the gun, that is capable of committing acts of evil."},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_counters\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-small.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top:2px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_c=new Array(\"twitter\",\"facebook_like\",\"facebook_send\",\"google\",\"pinterest\",\"linkedin\");var hupso_counters_lang = \"en_US\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_twitter_via=\"harryhofman\";var hupso_url_c=\"\";var hupso_title_c=\"Glenn%20Beck%20-%20It%20is%20the%20man%2C%20not%20the%20gun%2C%20that%20is%20capable%20of%20committing%20acts%20of%20evil.\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/counters.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theblaze.com\/stories\/2013\/05\/04\/glenn-beck-teaches-part-of-americas-history-like-never-before-using-guns-in-nra-keynote-speech-it-is-the-man-not-the-gun\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.theblaze.com\/stories\/2013\/05\/04\/glenn-beck-teaches-part-of-americas-history-like-never-before-using-guns-in-nra-keynote-speech-it-is-the-man-not-the-gun<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;One story about a particular shotgun, wielded by a \u201cnaked hippie\u201d shooting birds decades ago, seemed to have the most impact. Beck explained that after receiving a early morning call about the naked hippie shooting birds out of season, police in California arrested the said hippie and confiscated his WWII-era shotgun.<\/p>\n<p>That man turned out to be the notoriously evil serial killer Charles Manson. After his gun was taken away, he then turned to a knife to commit at least nine grisly murders with his cult group.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCharlie Manson had his gun taken away. Charlie Manson didn\u2019t use a gun. He killed with a knife,\u201d Beck told a crowd of thousands at the George R. Brown Convention Center Saturday. He explained that it is a person\u2019s intent, not what tool he or she decides to use to commit evil. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_counters\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-small.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top:2px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_c=new Array(\"twitter\",\"facebook_like\",\"facebook_send\",\"google\",\"pinterest\",\"linkedin\");var hupso_counters_lang = \"en_US\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_twitter_via=\"harryhofman\";var hupso_url_c=\"\";var hupso_title_c=\"Glenn%20Beck%20-%20It%20is%20the%20man%2C%20not%20the%20gun%2C%20that%20is%20capable%20of%20committing%20acts%20of%20evil.\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/counters.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p>http:\/\/www.theblaze.com\/stories\/2013\/05\/04\/glenn-beck-teaches-part-of-americas-history-like-never-before-using-guns-in-nra-keynote-speech-it-is-the-man-not-the-gun &#8230;One story about a particular shotgun, wielded by a \u201cnaked hippie\u201d shooting birds decades ago, seemed to have the most impact. Beck explained that after receiving a early morning call about the naked hippie shooting birds out of season, police in California arrested the said hippie and confiscated his WWII-era shotgun. That man turned [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2nd-ammendment","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hofman.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hofman.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hofman.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hofman.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hofman.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=177"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/hofman.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":179,"href":"https:\/\/hofman.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177\/revisions\/179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hofman.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hofman.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hofman.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}