{"id":11187,"date":"2010-06-02T05:32:39","date_gmt":"2010-06-02T10:32:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=11187"},"modified":"2010-06-01T15:32:55","modified_gmt":"2010-06-01T20:32:55","slug":"at-least-they-werent-aiming-up-journalists-butts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=11187","title":{"rendered":"At Least They Weren&#8217;t Aiming Up Journalists&#8217; Butts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In thirty hours over the weekend, Chicago had <a href=\"http:\/\/abclocal.go.com\/wls\/story?section=news\/local&amp;id=7469776\">a bloody weekend<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[I]n a 30 hour period, 25 people were shot, and one man died from his injuries.<\/p>\n<p>The fatal shooting happened early Sunday in the 5100-block of S. Laflin.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This barely a week after <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=11025\">Mayor Daley risibly\u00a0trumpeted the safety benefits <\/a>of Chicago&#8217;s total ban on guns in the hands of the law-abiding in one of the most &#8220;Baghdad Bob&#8221;-like press conferences in history.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Chicago Police Superintendent Jody Weis said nearly half of the shootings appear to be gang-related.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>He said there are no suspects in any of the cases.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m dying to get to the next liberal who tries to make the case that banning guns for the law-abiding has any value at all.<\/p>\n<p>Bring on <em>McDonald<\/em>, baby.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u00a0<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In thirty hours over the weekend, Chicago had a bloody weekend: [I]n a 30 hour period, 25 people were shot, and one man died from his injuries. The fatal shooting happened early Sunday in the 5100-block of S. Laflin. This barely a week after Mayor Daley risibly\u00a0trumpeted the safety benefits of Chicago&#8217;s total ban on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-victim-disarmament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11187"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11189,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11187\/revisions\/11189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}