{"id":34311,"date":"2013-02-15T06:54:58","date_gmt":"2013-02-15T12:54:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=34311"},"modified":"2013-02-15T06:55:12","modified_gmt":"2013-02-15T12:55:12","slug":"34311","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=34311","title":{"rendered":"Like Rain On Your Wedding Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chicago-area National Guardsman survives Afghanistan; gets killed at home<\/a>:<\/p>\n

On February 2, Cook, was shot and killed while in a car near his grandmother\u2019s East Chicago house where he was taking Antoine for a visit. The veteran was found on top of his little boy, shielding him from the 15 bullets that pierced the car.<\/p>\n

\u201d He saved his son he made sure that before he left the last thing he did make sure his son was okay,\u201d said Norwood.<\/p>\n

Antoine was hit, too, in the left leg. Another bullet skimmed his right and a third grazed the toddler\u2019s head.<\/p>\n

Police believe Cook\u2019s murder was a case of mistaken identity, possible retaliation for another shooting just days before. The couple was planning their wedding, and a future.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And I’ll start a countdown before some lib on Twitter says “Hey! \u00a0Indiana’s not Illinois! \u00a0They’re a shall-issue state with relatively liberal (meaning conservative) gun laws!”<\/p>\n

Yeah. \u00a0But East Chicago is not just part of the Chicago metroplex; it’s a run-down industrial suburb full of oil storage tanks and down-market housing; it is more or less to Chicago what Bayonne is to New York.<\/p>\n

It’s a blip of Chicago-style violence, along with Gary and Hammond (and, downstate, Indianapolis) in a state<\/a> that’s relatively placid by comparison.<\/p>\n

It’s not the guns. \u00a0It’s the sociology. \u00a0Big, Democrat-controlled cities full of the social pathologies they bring are just plain more dangerous<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Chicago-area National Guardsman survives Afghanistan; gets killed at home: On February 2, Cook, was shot and killed while in a car near his grandmother\u2019s East Chicago house where he was taking Antoine for a visit. The veteran was found on top of his little boy, shielding him from the 15 bullets that pierced the car. […]<\/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-34311","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\/34311","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=34311"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34313,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34311\/revisions\/34313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}