{"id":78689,"date":"2021-07-09T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-09T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=78689"},"modified":"2021-07-08T19:11:27","modified_gmt":"2021-07-09T00:11:27","slug":"a-bit-of-a-reach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=78689","title":{"rendered":"A Bit Of A Reach"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>NPR (I listen so you don\u2019t have to) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2021\/07\/08\/1014339018\/lockdowns-in-paris-made-its-decades-long-crack-problem-visible\">has a story on Paris\u2019s crack problem <\/a>&#8211; which, after a year of lockdown, has gone pretty public.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Near the end of the piece, the reporter reassures the NPR audience that at least there isn\u2019t any <em>gun violence<\/em>, due to France\u2019s strict gun controls.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thing is, even in the US, guns and all, crack <em>addicts <\/em>rarely shoot each other.  Oh, they sometimes use guns to rob people to get money and fence-able goods for their next fix &#8211; but the NPR piece doesn\u2019t favor us with anybody sight as to how French baseheads pay for their buzz. Given hiw defenseless French Gun control, leaves citizens, there\u2019s less need to use a gun to rob people, but again, the report goes into no details.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No, in the US it\u2019s gangs, taking and defending turf and herding beeves, thst do the shooting.  And it seems French gangs don\u2019t have <em>that<\/em> much trouble getting guns.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=50362\">There are just different priorities <\/a>so far. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NPR (I listen so you don\u2019t have to) has a story on Paris\u2019s crack problem &#8211; which, after a year of lockdown, has gone pretty public. Near the end of the piece, the reporter reassures the NPR audience that at least there isn\u2019t any gun violence, due to France\u2019s strict gun controls. Thing is, even [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,263,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tc-media-bias","category-narrative-for-sale","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78689","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=78689"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78692,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78689\/revisions\/78692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}