{"id":2232,"date":"2008-03-07T07:01:40","date_gmt":"2008-03-07T12:01:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2232"},"modified":"2008-03-07T07:01:40","modified_gmt":"2008-03-07T12:01:40","slug":"lesson-to-be-learned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2232","title":{"rendered":"Lesson To Be Learned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Palestinian gunman <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/middle_east\/7282269.stm\">kills eight Jewish seminary students<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Witnesses said the gunman went into the library at the Mercaz Harav seminary in the city&#8217;s Kiryat Moshe quarter and opened fire.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the interesting part:\u00a0 the shooting was stopped&#8230;wait for it&#8230;wait for it&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;by an <em>armed student<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>One of the students, Yitzhak Dadon, reportedly shot the gunman twice before he was finally killed by an off-duty Israeli army officer, who had gone to the school after hearing gunfire.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I shot him twice in the head,&#8221; he told the Reuters news agency.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He started to sway and then someone else with a rifle fired at him, and he died.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I have a <em>strong <\/em>hunch he wasn&#8217;t going to be doing any more shooting after that.<\/p>\n<p>Israel has had a policy of allowing lawful concealed carry in schools of all types since an earlier rash of terrorist school shootings.\u00a0 The rate of school shootings in Israel is vanishingly low.<br \/>\nWhy does the American left hate students?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Palestinian gunman kills eight Jewish seminary students: Witnesses said the gunman went into the library at the Mercaz Harav seminary in the city&#8217;s Kiryat Moshe quarter and opened fire. Here&#8217;s the interesting part:\u00a0 the shooting was stopped&#8230;wait for it&#8230;wait for it&#8230; &#8230;by an armed student: One of the students, Yitzhak Dadon, reportedly shot the gunman [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,22,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gun-free-zones","category-victim-disarmament","category-war-on-terror"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2232","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=2232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2232\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}