{"id":8835,"date":"2010-02-24T13:20:09","date_gmt":"2010-02-24T18:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=8835"},"modified":"2010-02-24T16:16:01","modified_gmt":"2010-02-24T21:16:01","slug":"winds-of-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=8835","title":{"rendered":"Winds Of Change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bob Collins at MPR <a href=\"http:\/\/minnesota.publicradio.org\/collections\/special\/columns\/news_cut\/archive\/2010\/02\/five_at_8_-_22410.shtml?refid=0&amp;utm_source=twitterfeed&amp;utm_medium=twitter\">notes a crime that few others did<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In Colorado, a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedenverchannel.com\/news\/22655206\/detail.html\">gunman walked into a school and started shooting kids<\/a>, until a hero teacher tackled him.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I checked the story, from a Denver TV station:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Jefferson County Sheriff&#8217;s Office said the suspected shooter has been arrested. A well-placed source told CALL7 Investigators the suspect is Bruco Eastwood, 32. It&#8217;s unclear if Eastwood has any affiliation with the school. He likely will face two counts of attempted murder.<\/p>\n<p>Witnesses said the gunman was tackled by math teacher David Benke as he apparently attempted to reload his high-powered rifle.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Wanna bet Keith Olberman or Rachel Maddow jump on this bit here?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A parent who saw the incident told 7NEWS that the gunman kept mumbling to himself, &#8220;I&#8217;m fighting for freedom. I&#8217;m fighting for freedom,&#8221; as he was being taken down.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But Collins had a bigger question:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>That&#8217;s not the story. This is the story: These stories are no longer considered newsworthy enough for the front page of the country&#8217;s major newspapers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Collins wonders why.\u00a0 I think there are a couple of intertwining possibilities:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Nobody died.\u00a0 Thank God.\u00a0 Two wounded victims may be below-the-fold in Denver; it&#8217;s not even page 10 in Chicago.<\/li>\n<li>Obama is President.\u00a0 There&#8217;s no need for the media to keep showing that the wheels are coming off society.\u00a0 And so the media will not.<\/li>\n<li>The big media is starting to twig to the fact that these stories reinforce the right&#8217;s take on the Second Amendment.\u00a0 The middle-school was a &#8220;Gun Free Zone&#8221; &#8211; and yet, mirabile dictu, the gunman had a, er, gun.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Am I too cynical?\u00a0 Am I cynical enough?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bob Collins at MPR notes a crime that few others did: In Colorado, a gunman walked into a school and started shooting kids, until a hero teacher tackled him. I checked the story, from a Denver TV station: The Jefferson County Sheriff&#8217;s Office said the suspected shooter has been arrested. A well-placed source told CALL7 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gun-free-zones","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8835","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=8835"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8840,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8835\/revisions\/8840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}