{"id":80285,"date":"2021-12-15T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-15T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=80285"},"modified":"2021-12-14T08:19:54","modified_gmt":"2021-12-14T14:19:54","slug":"hypothetically-speaking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=80285","title":{"rendered":"Hypothetically Speaking"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails about a story I\u2019ve been wanting to touch on all week:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>You know those &#8220;Good Guy with a gun&#8221; stories that Liberals scoff at as Sexist White Supremacists Compensating for Something? <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kare11.com\/article\/news\/local\/edina-carjacking-victim-speaks-out-to-raise-awareness-and-spark-change\/89-c39051e0-9f63-47ea-9562-2a8ccdad08cb\">This Edina woman isn&#8217;t scoffing<\/a>. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>If only there were some way society could assume responsibility for protecting the public from violent criminals, some group of armed public servants sworn to uphold the law so that private citizens don&#8217;t have to.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Of course, the \u201cgood guy with a gun\u201c angle got buried so deeply, it\u2019s a good thing the fact didn\u2019t need oxygen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You\u2019ll never get our opinion class to admit it, but it was the good guy with the gun that saved the situation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails about a story I\u2019ve been wanting to touch on all week: You know those &#8220;Good Guy with a gun&#8221; stories that Liberals scoff at as Sexist White Supremacists Compensating for Something? This Edina woman isn&#8217;t scoffing. If only there were some way society could assume responsibility for protecting the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,269,130,22],"tags":[346],"class_list":["post-80285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-and-punishment","category-grass-roots","category-tc-media-bias","category-victim-disarmament","tag-a-good-guy-with-a-gun"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80285","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=80285"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80286,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80285\/revisions\/80286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}