{"id":79683,"date":"2021-10-07T08:35:39","date_gmt":"2021-10-07T13:35:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=79683"},"modified":"2021-10-07T08:35:39","modified_gmt":"2021-10-07T13:35:39","slug":"confirmed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=79683","title":{"rendered":"Confirmed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>35 years ago, during Minneapolis&#8217;s first ground of gang violence, a police sergeant, perhaps in a combination of hyperbole and fatigue, told me that the safest place to be in a gang shootout is <em>the target<\/em>.   Gang-bangers don&#8217;t spend a lot of range time; they love that John Woo horizontal grip; they spray and pray &#8211; never moreso now that the streets are full of illegal Glock full-auto trigger conversions, which will empty an 18 round magazine in a second and a half with all the accuracy of trying to knit while riding an untamed bronco. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That Sergeant, God bless him, just keeps getting proven right:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Chaos and gunfire in a miles-long two car shootout ending in downtown Minneapolis &#8211; then they run down an innocent woman on a scooter killing her. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MarielleMohs?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@MarielleMohs<\/a> is gathering details! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/pvpsDORgRq\">pic.twitter.com\/pvpsDORgRq<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Jason DeRusha (@DeRushaJ) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DeRushaJ\/status\/1446066259339120641?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 7, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Miles of full auto gunfire at car-to-car range &#8211; and no casualties.  One dead and four injured &#8211; from the car crash. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thanks, Sarge. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>35 years ago, during Minneapolis&#8217;s first ground of gang violence, a police sergeant, perhaps in a combination of hyperbole and fatigue, told me that the safest place to be in a gang shootout is the target. Gang-bangers don&#8217;t spend a lot of range time; they love that John Woo horizontal grip; they spray and pray [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79683","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=79683"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79686,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79683\/revisions\/79686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}