{"id":71901,"date":"2019-08-07T07:36:48","date_gmt":"2019-08-07T12:36:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=71901"},"modified":"2019-08-07T07:36:48","modified_gmt":"2019-08-07T12:36:48","slug":"the-very-definition-of-treating-the-symptom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=71901","title":{"rendered":"The Very Definition Of &#8220;Treating The Symptom&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>A commenter posted: &#8220;You don\u2019t have to solve \u2014 or even understand \u2014 complex moral, cultural, and social problems to reduce their lethality.&#8221;<br>If we limit magazine capacity, people still will die, but not as quickly.\u00a0 That&#8217;s what it means to &#8220;reduce their lethality.&#8221;\u00a0 That&#8217;s not a real solution.<br>It is ONLY by understanding the complex moral, cultural and social mistakes we made, that we have a hope of reversing the mistakes.<br>The problem is, Liberals don&#8217;t think they were mistakes so they&#8217;re not willing to consider reversing them, regardless of how many people die because of it. <br>Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Reducing lethality&#8221;.  As Joe points out, it means &#8211; at most &#8211; that a spree killer switches to multiple ten round magazines (which most spree killers already use); since they&#8217;re pretty invariably attacking defenseless targets, they could be using a double-barrel shotgun for all it matters.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And if you somehow, magically, take away all guns?  Psychos will switch &#8211; have switched &#8211; to gasoline, knives, fertilizer, poison gas, trucks, or God only knows what else.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A commenter posted: &#8220;You don\u2019t have to solve \u2014 or even understand \u2014 complex moral, cultural, and social problems to reduce their lethality.&#8221;If we limit magazine capacity, people still will die, but not as quickly.\u00a0 That&#8217;s what it means to &#8220;reduce their lethality.&#8221;\u00a0 That&#8217;s not a real solution.It is ONLY by understanding the complex moral, [&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-71901","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\/71901","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=71901"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71902,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71901\/revisions\/71902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}