{"id":66087,"date":"2018-02-26T11:26:27","date_gmt":"2018-02-26T17:26:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=66087"},"modified":"2018-02-26T11:26:27","modified_gmt":"2018-02-26T17:26:27","slug":"the-real-perps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=66087","title":{"rendered":"The Real Perps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=59016\">I&#8217;ve pointed out in the past<\/a> &#8211; when you listen to Dreamsicles talking about the relatives they&#8217;ve lost to &#8220;Gun Violence&#8221;, you can listen long and hard&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;and hear not one word about a\u00a0<em>perpetrator<\/em>.\u00a0 At a Dreamsicle meeting, all guns are self-animating.<\/p>\n<p>No perps.\u00a0 No criminals.\u00a0 (No black victims, outside of those killed by cops).<\/p>\n<p>And no imponderable human frailties.\u00a0 \u00a0 It&#8217;s not the mental illness\u00a0 &#8211; it&#8217;s\u00a0<em>the gun<\/em>.\u00a0 That&#8217;s one of the latest memes from the grabbers; &#8220;<em>it&#8217;s not the insanity &#8211; it&#8217;s the guns!<\/em>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>And like most such memes, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/opinion\/op-ed\/la-oe-duwe-rocque-mass-shootings-mental-illness-20180223-story.html\">it&#8217;s just not true<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I&#8217;ve pointed out in the past &#8211; when you listen to Dreamsicles talking about the relatives they&#8217;ve lost to &#8220;Gun Violence&#8221;, you can listen long and hard&#8230; &#8230;and hear not one word about a\u00a0perpetrator.\u00a0 At a Dreamsicle meeting, all guns are self-animating. No perps.\u00a0 No criminals.\u00a0 (No black victims, outside of those killed by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-and-punishment","category-victim-disarmament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66087","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=66087"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66088,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66087\/revisions\/66088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}