{"id":2678,"date":"2008-06-09T06:16:11","date_gmt":"2008-06-09T11:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2678"},"modified":"2008-06-17T06:25:29","modified_gmt":"2008-06-17T11:25:29","slug":"whew-good-thing-they-ban-guns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2678","title":{"rendered":"Whew.  Good Thing They Ban Guns!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Japanese man <a href=\"http:\/\/apnews.myway.com\/article\/20080608\/D9165LBO0.html\">rams vehicle into crowded shopping area, comes out swinging a knife<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The lunchtime violence in the Akihabara district, a popular electronics and video game area, sent thousands of people fleeing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Whew.  Good thing civilians can&#8217;t defend themselves, or all hell could have broken loose!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The assault, which occurred on <strong>the seventh anniversary of a mass stabbing at a Japanese elementary school<\/strong>, was the latest in a series of knife attacks that have stoked fears of rising violent crime in Japan.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>At the risk of being redundant, &#8211; whew.  Good thing civilians can&#8217;t defend themselves, or goodness knows what would have happened!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A 25-year-old man, Tomohiro Kato, was arrested with blood on his face.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The suspect told police that he came to Akihabara to kill people,&#8221; said Jiro Akaogi, a spokesman for the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He said he was tired of life. He said he was sick of everything,&#8221; Akaogi said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Wow.  It would have been such a shame if an innocent, law-abiding civilian had been able to indulge his wish <em>before <\/em>killing seven innocent people.<\/p>\n<p>Close call!<\/p>\n<p>(Note:  This incident provided as a preview of life under a Democrat-dominated government).<\/p>\n<blockquote \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japanese man rams vehicle into crowded shopping area, comes out swinging a knife: The lunchtime violence in the Akihabara district, a popular electronics and video game area, sent thousands of people fleeing. Whew. Good thing civilians can&#8217;t defend themselves, or all hell could have broken loose! The assault, which occurred on the seventh anniversary of [&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-2678","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\/2678","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=2678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2678\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}