{"id":67604,"date":"2018-08-07T11:00:15","date_gmt":"2018-08-07T16:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=67604"},"modified":"2018-08-06T20:02:17","modified_gmt":"2018-08-07T01:02:17","slug":"shock-poll-in-opposite-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=67604","title":{"rendered":"Shock Poll.  In Opposite World."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=59016\">noticed it a couple of years ago<\/a> &#8211; whenever anti-gun groups trot out victim stories, one thing that never gets mentioned is the perpetrator &#8211; the person pulling trigger.\u00a0 \u00a0 You can listen to &#8220;survivors&#8221; (they almost never survived violence themselves; they&#8217;ve almost invariably hijacked the legacy of a dead relative) for hours without ever knowing that the firearms involved hadn&#8217;t levitated themselves.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a reason for that; talking about perps <a href=\"https:\/\/www.intellectualtakeout.org\/blog\/unlawful-gun-owners-commit-80-percent-gun-crimes\">would confirm everything the good guys have been saying about the issue, forever<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Lawful gun owners accounted for just 18 percent of gun violence, according to<a href=\"http:\/\/www.socialmedicine.info\/index.php\/socialmedicine\/article\/view\/852\/1649\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u00a0a recent study<\/a>conducted by researchers at the University of Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers analyzed 762 cases in which a gun was recovered by the Pittsburgh Bureau of Police Firearm Tracking Unit (FTU).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMost perpetrators (79%) were carrying a gun that did not belong to them,\u201d researchers concluded.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>By the way, gun grabbers &#8211; how does that bode for &#8220;Universal background checks?&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I noticed it a couple of years ago &#8211; whenever anti-gun groups trot out victim stories, one thing that never gets mentioned is the perpetrator &#8211; the person pulling trigger.\u00a0 \u00a0 You can listen to &#8220;survivors&#8221; (they almost never survived violence themselves; they&#8217;ve almost invariably hijacked the legacy of a dead relative) for hours without [&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-67604","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\/67604","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=67604"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67606,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67604\/revisions\/67606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}