{"id":60260,"date":"2016-09-19T05:00:23","date_gmt":"2016-09-19T10:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=60260"},"modified":"2016-09-13T09:46:28","modified_gmt":"2016-09-13T14:46:28","slug":"connect-the-dots-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=60260","title":{"rendered":"Connect The Dots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Here\u2019s an example of why Conservatives claim there is Liberal bias in the media \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twincities.com\/2016\/09\/02\/man-allegedly-shot-to-death-by-guardsman-in-state-park-is-idd\/\"><span class=\"s2\">the entire focus of this story is misplaced<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">The article says the shooter was a National Guardsman and makes the point that he and his wife both are members of the Minnesota National Guard.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">Yeah?\u00a0 So what?\u00a0 Were they in uniform at the time of the shooting?\u00a0 Acting on orders?\u00a0 Using military-issued weapons?\u00a0 If not, then their membership in the Guard is entirely irrelevant to the story.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">Why emphasize the Guard?\u00a0 Why not \u201cformer high school drummer\u201d or \u201centhusiastic fly fisherman\u201d or \u201cdiesel mechanic\u201d or \u201cLutheran church member?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">Possibly because in the Liberal mind, the Guard is military, which uses assault rifles, which are bad, so naturally this guy also is bad, probably has PTSD, never should have been allowed to own a gun but for America\u2019s militaristic culture of gun violence and the never-sufficiently-to-be-damned NRA.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">Pathetic.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">Joe Doakes<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\">In the world of &#8220;fuzzy logic&#8221;, the liberal mind is God&#8217;s own lint trap.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Here\u2019s an example of why Conservatives claim there is Liberal bias in the media \u2013 the entire focus of this story is misplaced. \u00a0The article says the shooter was a National Guardsman and makes the point that he and his wife both are members of the Minnesota National Guard.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-slander-files","category-victim-disarmament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60260","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=60260"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60266,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60260\/revisions\/60266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}