{"id":38402,"date":"2013-09-16T12:35:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-16T17:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=38402"},"modified":"2013-09-16T17:54:04","modified_gmt":"2013-09-16T22:54:04","slug":"the-betting-window-is-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=38402","title":{"rendered":"The Betting Window Is Open"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s been a shooting <\/a>at the Washington Navy Yard – headquarters for the US Navy’s procurement bureaucracy.\u00a0 Recent experience shows us that nearly every first report on these sorts of things is wrong – but current reports indicate 4-6<\/del> 13 dead.<\/p>\n

And nobody remotely close to being an “authority” has even begun to speculate on who the shooter\/s were and why they did it; one dead shooter <\/a>is apparently a former Navy employee<\/del> (Nope, NBC retracted that<\/a>)\u00a0<\/p>\n

I urge everyone to direct your prayers, or whatever thoughts your worldview admits, toward the victims, their families, and everyone involved in this tragedy.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Now:\u00a0 It’s time to place your bets.\u00a0 We’re taking bets in several categories:<\/p>\n

The Obama Pool<\/strong>:\u00a0 How long until The One tries to link this shooting to the defeat of his gun-grab agenda?\u00a0<\/p>\n

Bobblehead Roulette<\/strong>:\u00a0 At what time will the first Twin Cities leftyblogger issue a post blaming the shootings on the NRA?<\/p>\n

The Martens Parlay<\/strong>:\u00a0 At what time will Representative Heather Martens (DFL-67A) release a statement blaming the shooting on the failure of the Paymar gun grab bills and\/or the Colorado recall?\u00a0 (UPDATE 6PM:\u00a0 She did it!)<\/p>\n

Black Gun Bingo<\/strong>:\u00a0 At least one initial report says “assault weapons” were used in the shooting.\u00a0 Who will be the first lefty pundit to claim that if only “assault weapons” were banned, this (apparently) multi-party, coordinated assault would not have taken place?<\/p>\n

The Elephant In The Room Pool<\/strong>:\u00a0 How many mainstream and left-leaning alt-media outlets will mention that a) the Navy Yard is in Washington DC, which retains among the most draconian anti-gun laws in the country, and that in addition b) the Navy Yard, like all military facilities, is a “gun free zone?”\u00a0 (Note<\/strong>:\u00a0 “Zero” is already taken.\u00a0 Pick a different number).\u00a0 Bonus question:\u00a0 how many will blame the shooting on Virginia’s more liberal gun laws, without asking why the atrocity didn’t take place in Virginia?\u00a0<\/p>\n

UPDATES:\u00a0 Adding a few as I go here:<\/p>\n

Tea For Three<\/strong>:\u00a0 Current reporting says there may have been three gunmen<\/del>\u00a0 (Nope.\u00a0 Just one gunman).\u00a0 Which media outlet will be the first\u00a0to blame the Tea Party?<\/p>\n

Numb3rs<\/strong>:\u00a0 How many reports will the major media have to retract about names of victims (1 so far), shooters (UPDATE 6PM:\u00a0 At least once), number of shooters (UPDATE: Twice!) , motives, number of victims (UPDATE 6PM:\u00a0 Many times)…<\/p>\n

The “T” Word<\/strong>:\u00a0 Some early reports claim this might be a workplace shooting – as in “disgruntled workers”.\u00a0 But if there are indeed multiple shooters?\u00a0 The idea of a “team of disgruntled workers” doesn’t pass the sniff test, does it<\/del>?\u00a0<\/p>\n

Place your bets!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There’s been a shooting at the Washington Navy Yard – headquarters for the US Navy’s procurement bureaucracy.\u00a0 Recent experience shows us that nearly every first report on these sorts of things is wrong – but current reports indicate 4-6 13 dead. And nobody remotely close to being an “authority” has even begun to speculate on […]<\/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-38402","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\/38402","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=38402"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38405,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38402\/revisions\/38405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}