{"id":82434,"date":"2022-06-10T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-10T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=82434"},"modified":"2022-06-10T07:03:44","modified_gmt":"2022-06-10T12:03:44","slug":"%ef%bf%bclanes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=82434","title":{"rendered":"\ufffcLanes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Doctors say gun violence is a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/show\/why-doctors-are-calling-gun-violence-in-the-u-s-an-epidemic\">public health issue, an epidemic<\/a>.  Here we go again, another round of the same tired lies. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Can we please acknowledge some obvious and simple truths?  Guns don&#8217;t shoot people.  People with guns shoot people.  But not all people with guns shoot people, some of us have owned guns for decades without shooting anybody.  And sometimes people shooting other people is perfectly justified and should have happened sooner, as in that Texas school.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>The problem is bad people with guns shooting people.  That means the real problem is not the guns; the real problem is the bad people.  Take away the guns and they&#8217;re still bad people, still willing to do bad things.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Bad people are not an epidemic.  There is no treatment.  There is no cure.  Best we can do is remove Bad People from society, keeping the rest of us safe.  <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Long term imprisonment.  Death penalty.   Vigilante justice.  The old remedies are the only effective remedies for bad behavior committed by bad people.  And everybody knows it, whether they&#8217;re willing to admit it, or not.<\/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>This, in fact, may be the most exhausting thing about being a gun rights activist; the population of gun grab activists (below the national level) recycles every 2 to 3 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And so every few years, you get to Saint deal with the same lies, clich\u00e9s and emotion driven fallacies all over again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Including this one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Doctors say gun violence is a public health issue, an epidemic. Here we go again, another round of the same tired lies. Can we please acknowledge some obvious and simple truths? Guns don&#8217;t shoot people. People with guns shoot people. But not all people with guns shoot people, some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-victim-disarmament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82434","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=82434"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82435,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82434\/revisions\/82435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}