{"id":54364,"date":"2015-07-20T07:00:43","date_gmt":"2015-07-20T12:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=54364"},"modified":"2015-07-20T07:09:35","modified_gmt":"2015-07-20T12:09:35","slug":"forfeit-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=54364","title":{"rendered":"Forfeit"},"content":{"rendered":"

The NY Daily News informs us that last week’s shooting in Chattanooga, claiming four Marines and a Navy petty officer, all unarmed – where a person whose motive can’t possibly be determined, but whose actions absolutely\u00a0do not\u00a0<\/em>define his entire race the way Dylan Roof’s defined all white people – has “renewed the debate on gun free zones<\/a>“.
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That’s incorrect, of course.<\/p>\n

There is no “debate” about “gun-free zones”.<\/p>\n

There is a faction of society that clings to the notion that telling people to be nice will make everyone be nice.<\/p>\n

And there’s a faction of society that notes, correctly, that nearly every mass-shooting in recent years – schools, post offices, the Crosswinds Mall in Nebraska, the Fort Hood massacre, the shootings at Virginia Tech, and even the Charleston shooting – either took place in a “gun free” zone, or in a state with restrictive gun laws.<\/p>\n

That’s not a debate.<\/p>\n

That’s the smart people being nagged by the ignorant.<\/p>\n

Fact: \u00a0You are at much greater risk in a gun-free zone than elsewhere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The NY Daily News informs us that last week’s shooting in Chattanooga, claiming four Marines and a Navy petty officer, all unarmed – where a person whose motive can’t possibly be determined, but whose actions absolutely\u00a0do not\u00a0define his entire race the way Dylan Roof’s defined all white people – has “renewed the debate on gun […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[265],"class_list":["post-54364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gun-free-zones","tag-self-defense"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54364","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=54364"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54390,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54364\/revisions\/54390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}