{"id":6467,"date":"2015-07-09T18:00:22","date_gmt":"2015-07-09T23:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hcstx.org\/?p=6467"},"modified":"2015-07-09T18:00:22","modified_gmt":"2015-07-09T23:00:22","slug":"have-we-become-a-country-of-cowards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2015\/07\/09\/have-we-become-a-country-of-cowards\/","title":{"rendered":"Have we become a Country of Cowards?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hcsblogdotorg.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/07\/courage.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6469\" src=\"https:\/\/hcsblogdotorg.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/07\/courage.jpg\" alt=\"courage\" width=\"280\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><em><strong>&#8220;A Coward dies a thousand times before his death, but the valiant only taste of death but once.&#8221;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">William Shakespeare from <em>Julius Caesar<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">It is articles like this one from the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2015\/07\/09\/behold-the-beta-males-who-feel-good-about-watching-a-man-die\/\">Federalist<\/a><\/strong> that remind me why I don&#8217;t watch the news on T.V. anymore. I would much rather go online and pick and choose what I read about, that way I won&#8217;t get nauseated as fast, and typically can make it about 20 minutes before having to stop. Seriously. True Story.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">This story also reminds me why I don&#8217;t live in urban areas anymore. I will spare you my reasoning on that.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">But getting to the nuts and bolts of this story: There is a difference in teaching people about self-preservation and being &#8220;street smart&#8221; and just being an outright coward who cowers in a corner while some asshole murders another person in cold blood and then robs everybody, including you. C&#8217;mon people. What are we teaching our children? moreover, what are we saying about ourselves as a society to the world as a whole? You can rob, kill, rape, just don&#8217;t do it to me? Pitiful stuff guys, just plain pitiful.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">I leave you with this thought, and as such, a prediction for the future of America:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\"><em><strong>&#8220;This country was not established by Cowards, and Cowards shall not Preserve it.&#8221;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">Stay Alert, Stay Armed, Always Do what is Right and Stay Dangerous!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;A Coward dies a thousand times before his death, but the valiant only taste of death but once.&#8221; William Shakespeare from Julius Caesar It is articles like this one from the Federalist that remind me why I don&#8217;t watch the news on T.V. anymore. I would much rather go online and pick and choose what&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[13,74,1247],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6467"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}