{"id":1755,"date":"2007-12-07T12:48:01","date_gmt":"2007-12-07T17:48:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1755"},"modified":"2007-12-07T12:48:01","modified_gmt":"2007-12-07T17:48:01","slug":"on-the-docility-of-the-herd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1755","title":{"rendered":"On The Docility Of The Herd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Glen Reynolds <a href=\"http:\/\/instapundit.com\/archives2\/012596.php\">on the Omaha massacre<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>it&#8217;s worth noting &#8212; since apparently most of the media reports haven&#8217;t &#8212; that this was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/story\/0,2933,315563,00.html\">another mass shooting in a &#8220;gun-free&#8221; zone.<\/a> It seems to me that we&#8217;ve reached the point at which a facility that bans firearms, making its patrons unable to defend themselves, should be subject to lawsuit for its failure to protect them. The pattern of mass shootings in &#8220;gun free&#8221; zones is well-established at this point, and I don&#8217;t see why places that take the affirmative step of forcing their law-abiding patrons to go unarmed should get off scot-free.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If any lawyer wants to file that case, I&#8217;ll\u00a0send money.\u00a0 Promise.\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There&#8217;s even an <a href=\"http:\/\/papers.ssrn.com\/sol3\/papers.cfm?abstract_id=161637\">academic literature<\/a> on mass shootings and concealed-gun carriage.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Worth, as always, a read.<\/p>\n<p>Assuming it&#8217;s &#8220;facts&#8221; that you&#8217;re after.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Glen Reynolds on the Omaha massacre: it&#8217;s worth noting &#8212; since apparently most of the media reports haven&#8217;t &#8212; that this was another mass shooting in a &#8220;gun-free&#8221; zone. It seems to me that we&#8217;ve reached the point at which a facility that bans firearms, making its patrons unable to defend themselves, should be subject [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-and-punishment","category-victim-disarmament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1755","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=1755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1755\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}