{"id":72769,"date":"2019-12-06T10:25:32","date_gmt":"2019-12-06T16:25:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=72769"},"modified":"2019-12-06T10:46:18","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T16:46:18","slug":"soft-targets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=72769","title":{"rendered":"Soft Targets"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We&#8217;ve had the second active shooter episode in a couple of days on a Navy base &#8211; first Pearl Harbor, now Pensacola.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Which has prompted some of the usual suspects to mouth the usual jibberish:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Pearl Harbor shooting and now Pensacola.  Two active shooters on military bases don&#39;t make an epidemic, but they do suggest that more guns doesn&#39;t mean more security.  <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CNN?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@cnn<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/MwZAKqnVmf\">https:\/\/t.co\/MwZAKqnVmf<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Juliette Kayyem (@juliettekayyem) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/juliettekayyem\/status\/1202950212895100930?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 6, 2019<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>For sake of argument?  Perhaps.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What it <em>does <\/em>do is show that banning guns is <em>no <\/em>defense against violence.  Navy, like all military bases, and indeed all federal offices and installations, are &#8220;gun-free zones&#8221;. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Like Fort Hood.  And the Little Rock recruiting station.  And the Chattanooga one&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;well, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.military.com\/daily-news\/2015\/08\/06\/navy-no-charges-against-officer-for-weapons-violations-in-attac.html\">hang on a minute<\/a>.  There, an officer, Lieutenant Commander Tim White, had a sidearm &#8211; against the rules &#8211; and returned fire at the murderer this likely played a key part in the fact that the death toll at White&#8217;s Naval Reserve center was limited to one sailor (the murdered had killed four Marines at a &#8220;gun free&#8221; recruiting center shortly before).   The Navy pondered charges before demurring under an avalanche of public condemnation (although I can find no word about how the Navy treated LtCdr White afterward; I&#8217;m going to guess his career ended not long after, although I&#8217;d be happy to find out otherwise). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyway &#8211; this is the logic and concern for fact a Harvard degree gets you these days   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve had the second active shooter episode in a couple of days on a Navy base &#8211; first Pearl Harbor, now Pensacola. Which has prompted some of the usual suspects to mouth the usual jibberish: For sake of argument? Perhaps. What it does do is show that banning guns is no defense against violence. Navy, [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-and-punishment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72769","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=72769"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72771,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72769\/revisions\/72771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}