{"id":58461,"date":"2016-04-21T11:30:29","date_gmt":"2016-04-21T16:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=58461"},"modified":"2016-04-20T09:20:31","modified_gmt":"2016-04-20T14:20:31","slug":"interesting-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=58461","title":{"rendered":"Interesting Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a fairly violent year in Saint Paul. \u00a0 This past weekend was worst of all; nine total shootings, with two dead:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/d\/embed?mid=zNT-9G0JmfYc.kaGa4crbwlLw\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>On the upside, I haven&#8217;t noticed the metro&#8217;s anti-gun crones blaming the shooting wave on the law-abiding gun owner yet; partly, I suspect, because they&#8217;re still learning how to update blog posts, and partly because most Metro gun grabbers don&#8217;t know where Saint Paul is (outside the Griggs Building, anyway. \u00a0BTW, if you&#8217;ve ever asked yourself &#8220;why is there a Green Line stop at Fairview Avenue, it&#8217;s because the Griggs Building is the home for most of the Democrat, Union and &#8220;Social Justice&#8221; non-profits who provide most of the Green Line&#8217;s non-criminal riders).<\/p>\n<p>The bad news? \u00a0It<a href=\"http:\/\/www.twincities.com\/2016\/04\/18\/stpaul-shootings-mounds-park-payne-phalen-2-dead\/\">&#8216;s still a DFL-run city<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Addressing the root causes of violence has also been important to the Dayton\u2019s Bluff Community Council, said Deanna Abbott-Foster, the executive director. Sunday\u2019s homicide occurred in Dayton\u2019s Bluff.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re hoping not just to respond to violent incidents, like a murder, where we all rise up and say, \u2018Oh no!\u2019 and then go back to business as usual,\u201d Abbott-Foster said. \u201cWe\u2019re hoping to \u2026 take a more holistic approach and ask, \u2018What\u2019s happening here?\u2019 There\u2019s a lot of poverty, a lot of unemployment, all kinds of issues that lend themselves to violent outbreaks.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, focus on that. \u00a0That&#8217;ll work.<\/p>\n<p>Because poverty causes crime, right? \u00a0 Like, as P.J. O&#8217;Rourke wrote 25 years ago, &#8220;if you took Thurgood Marshall&#8217;s bank account away, he&#8217;d wind up selling crack at the Port Authority&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>No. \u00a0A society where there is motive, opportunity, and increasingly little consequence for dumb people to try to take what isn&#8217;t theirs is the problem.<\/p>\n<p>And after years of dodging that, er, bullet, Saint Paul is arriving in the 21st century in the worst possible way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a fairly violent year in Saint Paul. \u00a0 This past weekend was worst of all; nine total shootings, with two dead: On the upside, I haven&#8217;t noticed the metro&#8217;s anti-gun crones blaming the shooting wave on the law-abiding gun owner yet; partly, I suspect, because they&#8217;re still learning how to update blog posts, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-and-punishment","category-st-paul"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58461","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=58461"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58462,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58461\/revisions\/58462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}