{"id":3664,"date":"2008-11-19T06:07:38","date_gmt":"2008-11-19T11:07:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3664"},"modified":"2008-11-18T13:06:02","modified_gmt":"2008-11-18T18:06:02","slug":"whew-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3664","title":{"rendered":"Whew"},"content":{"rendered":"

The important part is finding the good <\/em>news.<\/p>\n

For example, it’d be easy to look at this piece, above the mugging and violent assault on crime novelist Laura Caldwell<\/a>\u00a0while jogging in Chicago last weekend…<\/p>\n

On Thursday, Caldwell, a red-headed attorney who in 2005 successfully defended a man who spent five years in jail awaiting trial for murder, was jogging at Seminary and Altgeld in Lincoln Park when she saw two men — one with a hood pulled over his cap and the other who was lifting his jacket over his head.<\/p>\n

Nervous, Caldwell felt the hair rise on the back of her neck. Suddenly, one of the men kicked her from behind, and she fell onto the street.<\/p>\n

“They smashed my mouth into the pavement and kicked me a few times,” she said. “They screamed about money, but I said, ‘Guys, I am jogging and I don’t have any money.’ They took my iPod and ran off.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

…and other such stories…:<\/p>\n

Police officers told her that muggings are more common in Lincoln Park in late autumn, when the victims are walking in darkness and more susceptible to surprise attacks, she said.<\/p>\n

There was an armed robbery at the same intersection just after 11 p.m. on Nov. 6. And over the last month, there have been two assaults and a purse-snatching within three blocks of Caldwell’s mugging, police records show.<\/p>\n

In September, the sister of Bears quarterback Rex Grossman was robbed at gunpoint in her garage about six blocks away at Racine and Armitage.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

…and of course Chicago’s skyrocketing murder rate and out-of-control gang violence, and think “Wow.\u00a0 Crime’s getting bad in Chicago!”<\/p>\n

What you should<\/em>\u00a0 be thinking is “Whew.\u00a0 Good thing none of those criminals has to worry about a law-abiding citizen being able to legally use a gun to defend themselves.\u00a0 All hell <\/em>could break loose, then!”<\/p>\n

Chicago; governnment so good, we now have it nationwide!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The important part is finding the good news. For example, it’d be easy to look at this piece, above the mugging and violent assault on crime novelist Laura Caldwell\u00a0while jogging in Chicago last weekend… On Thursday, Caldwell, a red-headed attorney who in 2005 successfully defended a man who spent five years in jail awaiting trial […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,45,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-and-punishment","category-gun-free-zones","category-victim-disarmament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3664","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=3664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3664\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}