{"id":11214,"date":"2010-06-03T06:57:33","date_gmt":"2010-06-03T11:57:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=11214"},"modified":"2010-06-03T06:57:33","modified_gmt":"2010-06-03T11:57:33","slug":"spree-killing-in-the-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=11214","title":{"rendered":"Spree Killing In The UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Taxi driver <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/uknews\/crime\/7798513\/Cumbria-shootings-gunman-Derrick-Bird-kills-12-then-shoots-himself.html\">kills 12 in the western UK:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Armed with two weapons &#8211; a .22 rifle and a shotgun &#8211; Bird drove down the coast from Whitehaven where the first attacks took place, leaving a trail of carnage in his wake. Residents of the county were warned to stay indoors as police followed the deadly route, discovering more bodies as they went. At one point Bird abandoned his Citroen Picasso for another car which he then crashed near woods in the picturesque Lake District town of Boot. The body of Bird, a 52 year-old divorced father-of-two, together with his guns were found nearby.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Imagine how bad it&#8217;d be if the UK hadn&#8217;t completely banned guns!<\/p>\n<p>(Although journalists can take comfort in the fact that nobody&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=11030\">aiming up their butts<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taxi driver kills 12 in the western UK: Armed with two weapons &#8211; a .22 rifle and a shotgun &#8211; Bird drove down the coast from Whitehaven where the first attacks took place, leaving a trail of carnage in his wake. Residents of the county were warned to stay indoors as police followed the deadly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,45,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-war","category-gun-free-zones","category-victim-disarmament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11214","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=11214"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11216,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11214\/revisions\/11216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}