{"id":55074,"date":"2015-09-09T05:14:07","date_gmt":"2015-09-09T10:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=55074"},"modified":"2015-09-09T05:14:08","modified_gmt":"2015-09-09T10:14:08","slug":"more-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=55074","title":{"rendered":"More"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes Feom Como Park emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The United States has more mass shootings than any other country.  Yes, and we also have more toilets and iPhones.  That\u2019s because we have 320 million residents in one country, third behind China and India. We have more shootings because we have more everything.<\/p>\n<p>Our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/blogs\/dailychart\/2011\/01\/comparing_us_states_countries\">State populations are as large as these countries<\/a> and our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/blogs\/dailychart\/2011\/01\/comparing_us_states_countries\">State economies are as large as these countries<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If Americans have too much compared to smaller countries, the obvious solution is to break the United States into smaller parts that would more closely equal the size of other countries.  The technical term for this is \u201csecession\u201d which I believe was considered briefly around 1865, but came to naught.  Perhaps it\u2019s time to revisit the concept?  Blue states could become socialist countries with strict gun control and red states could become free countries with lax gun control, a win-win.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, that would mean Liberals would give up wielding power over the whole nation, they\u2019d be stuck ruling smaller and smaller fiefdoms.  Is the chance of equality worth the loss of dominance?&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;ve never much cared for conspiracy theories \u2013 but the more you look into the American Lefts rhetoric, the more it makes sense that they&#8217;d want American children to be illiterate at math and history.<\/p>\n<p>As far as secession girls? We&#8217;ve <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?cat=267\">looked at it on this blog befor<\/a>e, and even <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?page_id=12\">more before that<\/a>,&nbsp;and I have a feeling we&#8217;re going to look at it again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes Feom Como Park emails: The United States has more mass shootings than any other country. Yes, and we also have more toilets and iPhones. That\u2019s because we have 320 million residents in one country, third behind China and India. We have more shootings because we have more everything. Our State populations are as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55074","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=55074"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55075,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55074\/revisions\/55075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}