{"id":64605,"date":"2017-09-27T05:00:06","date_gmt":"2017-09-27T10:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=64605"},"modified":"2017-09-24T15:36:15","modified_gmt":"2017-09-24T20:36:15","slug":"7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=64605","title":{"rendered":"Priorities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/shelved-obama-gun-research-program-could-terminate-studies-of-firearm-violence\">Gun deaths will go unexplained<\/a>, because there\u2019s no federal money to research them. \u00a0The horror.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019d bet a brand new nickel they\u2019re not interested in research showing the overwhelming percentage of murders are committed by a tiny group of People Whose Lives Matter in discrete geographical locations; or that gun violence increased after President Obama simultaneously inflamed racial tensions while hobbling law enforcement; or in balancing lives saved by pre-emptively disarming everyone to make suicide-by-gun more difficult versus lives lost when the newly-disarmed are unable to defend themselves from deadly attack.<\/p>\n<p>In the olden days, government funded research gave us the moon.\u00a0 Nowadays, government funded research gave us Solyndra.\u00a0 I can do without it.\u00a0 Divert that spending where it will do some good. \u00a0Build The Wall.<\/p>\n<p>Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>No action on that nickel bet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Gun deaths will go unexplained, because there\u2019s no federal money to research them. \u00a0The horror. I\u2019d bet a brand new nickel they\u2019re not interested in research showing the overwhelming percentage of murders are committed by a tiny group of People Whose Lives Matter in discrete geographical locations; or that [&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-64605","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\/64605","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=64605"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64612,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64605\/revisions\/64612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}