{"id":84354,"date":"2023-01-31T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-31T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=84354"},"modified":"2023-01-30T07:27:31","modified_gmt":"2023-01-30T13:27:31","slug":"the-dicken-drill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=84354","title":{"rendered":"The Dicken Drill"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Noticed a lot more people shooting at silhouettes waaaaaay down at the other end of the range lately?  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Blame Elisha Dicken, the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=82845\"> hero of last summer&#8217;s attempted spree killing in Indiana<\/a>, who put eight out of ten shots into a would-be mass murderer at a range of <em>40 yards<\/em>, under the stress of shooting at someone out to murder everyone he could see. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Massood Ayoob comments on the episode, the drill &#8211; and comments on some other attempted spree killings ended by good guys with guns&#8230;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Elisjsha Dicken &amp; the Probability of Long Shots. Massad Ayoob praises these Heroes. Critical Mas 50\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/f1TRQDIM4pA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;at ranges that seem like they&#8217;re from Davy Crockett tales.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Noticed a lot more people shooting at silhouettes waaaaaay down at the other end of the range lately? Blame Elisha Dicken, the hero of last summer&#8217;s attempted spree killing in Indiana, who put eight out of ten shots into a would-be mass murderer at a range of 40 yards, under the stress of shooting at [&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":[346,265],"class_list":["post-84354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-victim-disarmament","tag-a-good-guy-with-a-gun","tag-self-defense"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84354","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=84354"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84364,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84354\/revisions\/84364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}