{"id":90282,"date":"2026-10-26T07:26:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T12:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=90282"},"modified":"2026-10-26T07:26:01","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T12:26:01","slug":"if-it-saves-just-one-life-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=90282","title":{"rendered":"If It Saves Just One Life"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Joe Doakes, once of Como Park, emails:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For several years, there has been a rash of shootings at Homecoming, in<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/10\/24\/us-news\/florida-am-university-homecoming-shooting-leaves-multiple-injured\/\">&nbsp;Florida<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/1-fatally-shot-9-wounded-3-kids-tsu-homecoming-parade-nashville-rcna175175\">Tennessee<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.live5news.com\/2026\/10\/04\/2-dead-up-35-injured-homecoming-party-mass-shooting-georgia\/\">Georgia<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcphiladelphia.com\/news\/local\/two-arrested-deadly-dover-shooting-delaware-state-homecoming\/4483427\/\">Delaware<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wbaltv.com\/article\/morgan-state-university-shooting-suspect-sentenced\/73418326\">Maryland<\/a>, and of course,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/10\/04\/us-news\/somali-gangs-blamed-for-shooting-at-minneapolis-homecoming-game-that-left-2-teens-wounded\/\">Eden Prairie<\/a>.&nbsp; CNN claims to have tracked 86 shootings linked to Homecomings, nationwide.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Plainly, the solution is to ban Homecoming.&nbsp; If it saves even one life . . .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Joe Doakes<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I mean, Eden Prairie basically did that &#8211; for one year.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Let&#8217;s see what happens next year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes, once of Como Park, emails:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-and-punishment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90282","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=90282"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90283,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90282\/revisions\/90283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}