{"id":61216,"date":"2016-12-09T05:00:06","date_gmt":"2016-12-09T11:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=61216"},"modified":"2016-12-03T08:00:05","modified_gmt":"2016-12-03T14:00:05","slug":"61216","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=61216","title":{"rendered":"Consistency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Dear Facebook Friend:<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">When someone with a knife hurts a bunch of people in St. Cloud, you tell me knives are no problem.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">When someone with a car hurts a bunch of people in Ohio, you tell me cars are no problem.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">When someone with a gun hurts a single person in Chicago, you say we must lock up all the guns in the nation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">I\u2019m not seeing the rationale.\u00a0 Is the real problem the tool used to do the hurting, or the people doing the hurting?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">Are you certain we\u2019re locking up the right thing?<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">Joe Doakes<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"p2\">I think it&#8217;s mostly the liberal imperative to &#8220;do something&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">Although it&#8217;s pronounced more like &#8220;dooooooooo something&#8221; for full effect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Dear Facebook Friend: \u00a0When someone with a knife hurts a bunch of people in St. Cloud, you tell me knives are no problem. \u00a0When someone with a car hurts a bunch of people in Ohio, you tell me cars are no problem. \u00a0When someone with a gun hurts 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":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-victim-disarmament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61216","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=61216"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61233,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61216\/revisions\/61233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}