{"id":29182,"date":"2012-07-26T05:29:48","date_gmt":"2012-07-26T10:29:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=29182"},"modified":"2012-07-26T07:31:12","modified_gmt":"2012-07-26T12:31:12","slug":"29182","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=29182","title":{"rendered":"Disarming The Law-Abiding, Arming The Criminals"},"content":{"rendered":"

Joe Doakes from Como Park emails in re Aurora, and provides a quote that the NRA or the GOA should put on a T-shirt:<\/p>\n

Orc: The Aurora theatre was a gun-free zone but it didn\u2019t matter because the shooter wore body armor, he was Invincible!<\/p>\n

Joe: Not so much<\/a>. The initial media reports thought \u201ctactical vest\u201d meant \u201cbulletproof vest.\u201d No, he wore the cop version of a pheasant hunting vest, with the pockets modified to hold pistol magazines instead of shotgun shells. It affords no protection to the wearer whatsoever.<\/p>\n

Orc: Well that doesn\u2019t matter. The theater was dark and noisy and full of smoke. Even if theatre patrons had been allowed to carry pistols, nobody could have made a shot to stop the threat under those conditions, it\u2019s like a battlefield.<\/p>\n

Joe: Four military veterans died<\/a> in that theatre..<\/p>\n

Orc: Yeah, but not every veteran can shoot. They\u2019re just Air Force computer clerks, unlikely they had experience in war or handling weapons.<\/p>\n

Joe: Jon Blunk<\/a> died in that theatre. He threw himself on top of his girlfriend to save her life.<\/p>\n

Orc: Yeah, but he was only a sailor. Could he shoot? Would he have had the guts to shoot in a dark, noisy smoky theatre? With someone shooting back at him?<\/p>\n

Joe: Blunk already had three tours in the Middle East under his belt and had plans to re-enlist with a goal of becoming a Navy SEAL. That\u2019s what SEALS do \u2013 they go into dark, noisy smoky places where people are shooting at them, and they kill bad guys. Would he have had the guts? Listen to someone who knows him:<\/p>\n

\u201cGill, who lived with Blunk several years in the Navy and later in Aurora, described his friend<\/a> as an avid outdoorsman and gun rights advocate.<\/p>\n

\u201cPretty much every weapon the guy in the theater used [Blunk] owned,” Gill said. “If you asked if he was still alive, he would have said his only regret is he didn’t have his sidearm with him and he couldn’t do anything to stop him.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This part should be on the T-shirts and bumper stickers:<\/p>\n

Gun-free zones don\u2019t stop bad guys from killing good people; they stop good people from killing bad guys<\/strong>. That\u2019s why they matter.<\/p>\n

Joe Doakes<\/p>\n

Como Park<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Joe Doakes from Como Park emails in re Aurora, and provides a quote that the NRA or the GOA should put on a T-shirt: Orc: The Aurora theatre was a gun-free zone but it didn\u2019t matter because the shooter wore body armor, he was Invincible! Joe: Not so much. The initial media reports thought \u201ctactical […]<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gun-free-zones","category-victim-disarmament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29182","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=29182"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29194,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29182\/revisions\/29194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}