{"id":32263,"date":"2012-12-05T12:00:09","date_gmt":"2012-12-05T18:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=32263"},"modified":"2012-12-05T07:34:24","modified_gmt":"2012-12-05T13:34:24","slug":"even-after-a-lifetime-of-concussions-theyre-smarter-than-bob-costas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=32263","title":{"rendered":"Even After A Lifetime Of Concussions, They’re Smarter Than Bob Costas"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jovan Belcher’s KC Chiefs teammates know where the actual blame for his murder-suicide tragedy actually lies…<\/p>\n

…and it’s not the gun<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\u00a0“If you have daughters, you should (have a gun),\u201d Chiefs defensive lineman Shaun Smith said Monday. \u201cYou have to protect yourself. You work so hard to get to where you at, I’ll be damned if I\u2019ll just let someone take it from me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Linebacker Brandon Siler, who had Thanksgiving dinner with Belcher, also had no problems with guns.<\/p>\n

\u201cWell, a majority of people own one, especially in the places where they’re legal. Most of the time they’re for self defense or sport,\u201d he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

They’re refusing to participate in an “anti-gun parade” in Kansas City.<\/p>\n

Speaking of parades – the\u00a0New York Daily News<\/em>‘\u00a0Vera Chinese and Stephen Rex Brown are apparently marching in their own little anti-gun parade (emphasis added):<\/p>\n

\u00a0The unusual questions about guns and the gridiron came days after Belcher, 25, blew away<\/strong> his girlfriend, Kasandra Perkins, 22, in their Kansas City home Saturday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Let me guess; just to watch her die?<\/p>\n

Nope – no media bias there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jovan Belcher’s KC Chiefs teammates know where the actual blame for his murder-suicide tragedy actually lies… …and it’s not the gun: \u00a0“If you have daughters, you should (have a gun),\u201d Chiefs defensive lineman Shaun Smith said Monday. \u201cYou have to protect yourself. You work so hard to get to where you at, I’ll be damned […]<\/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-32263","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\/32263","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=32263"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32264,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32263\/revisions\/32264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}