{"id":55434,"date":"2015-10-02T12:00:29","date_gmt":"2015-10-02T17:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=55434"},"modified":"2015-10-02T22:02:55","modified_gmt":"2015-10-03T03:02:55","slug":"random-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=55434","title":{"rendered":"Random Thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Random thoughts after a pretty awful day yesterday:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Incongruity:\u00a0<\/strong>So if #BlackLivesMatter, why do they only make the news the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fbi.gov\/about-us\/cjis\/ucr\/crime-in-the-u.s\/2013\/crime-in-the-u.s.-2013\/offenses-known-to-law-enforcement\/expanded-homicide\/expanded_homicide_data_table_6_murder_race_and_sex_of_vicitm_by_race_and_sex_of_offender_2013.xls\">relatively small percent of the time when there&#8217;s a white shooter<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p><strong>X Marks The Lack Of Spot:\u00a0<\/strong>Speaking of shooters, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mngopac.org\">MNGOPAC<\/a> has a little reminder for everyone that&#8217;s jabbering about &#8220;commonsense gun control&#8221;:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/12132484_489984937837669_5513767705344709088_o.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-55435 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/12132484_489984937837669_5513767705344709088_o.jpg\" alt=\"12132484_489984937837669_5513767705344709088_o\" width=\"1300\" height=\"1320\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/12132484_489984937837669_5513767705344709088_o.jpg 1300w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/12132484_489984937837669_5513767705344709088_o-295x300.jpg 295w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/12132484_489984937837669_5513767705344709088_o-1008x1024.jpg 1008w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1300px) 100vw, 1300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>They should add a line for &#8220;repeal gun free zones&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>It wouldn&#8217;t necessarily result in a green check box. \u00a0We&#8217;d need a third tick mark; a blue question mark labeled &#8220;would probably deter killers, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=32868\">give victims a chance<\/a>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p><b>We Need More Like This<\/b>: \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2015\/10\/02\/us\/oregon-shooting-sheriff-john-hanlin\/index.html\">Sheriff John Hanlin<\/a> &#8211; the Douglas County Sheriff in whose juridiction the shooting took place &#8211; has long sparred with gun control hamsters.<\/p>\n<p>And yesterday, his office refused to name the murderer &#8211; doing his best to deny the human roach the infamy and publicity he desired.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Random thoughts after a pretty awful day yesterday: Incongruity:\u00a0So if #BlackLivesMatter, why do they only make the news the relatively small percent of the time when there&#8217;s a white shooter? X Marks The Lack Of Spot:\u00a0Speaking of shooters, MNGOPAC has a little reminder for everyone that&#8217;s jabbering about &#8220;commonsense gun control&#8221;: They should add a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gun-free-zones","category-victim-disarmament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55434","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=55434"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55462,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55434\/revisions\/55462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}