{"id":66497,"date":"2018-04-05T11:00:54","date_gmt":"2018-04-05T16:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=66497"},"modified":"2019-09-27T08:52:15","modified_gmt":"2019-09-27T13:52:15","slug":"open-letter-to-the-parkland-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=66497","title":{"rendered":"Open Letter To The Parkland Kids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To: David Hogg et al<br \/>\nFrom: Mitch Berg, irascible peasant<br \/>\nRe: Agenda item<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/2017\/03\/31\/chicago-violence-deaths-7-killed-in-12-hours\/99864262\/\">7 dead in one Chicago neighborhood in 12 hours<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, they were mostly black and brown, so they don&#8217;t look like any of you.\u00a0 And they were mostly killed by people with criminal records (and, sadly, at least of the victims likely had records, too &#8211; that&#8217;s the way of inner city crime, which accounts for over 3\/4 of this nation&#8217;s homicides (with and without guns) every year.\u00a0 \u00a0That means more people killed in two days that have died in all school shootings in the past five years, all rolled together.<\/p>\n<p>But they&#8217;re black and brown and killed in ones and twos with weapons that aren&#8217;t on the social engineers&#8217; hit lists yet.\u00a0 And they had the bad fortune to be murdered\u00a0 almost exclusively in cities run by the same political class that pays for your airfare and security and sign printing and also gets you all that A-list media treatment.\u00a0 Cities that already have all the gun control measures &#8220;you&#8221; are so stridently demanding (fat lotta good they did, huh?) so nobody&#8217;ll be talking about those murders, will they?<\/p>\n<p>Will they?<\/p>\n<p>Will you all be marching through Chicago?\u00a0 Calling a bunch of gang-bangers &#8220;terrorists&#8221; and &#8220;Murderers?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>No?<\/p>\n<p>That is all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To: David Hogg et al From: Mitch Berg, irascible peasant Re: Agenda item 7 dead in one Chicago neighborhood in 12 hours. Of course, they were mostly black and brown, so they don&#8217;t look like any of you.\u00a0 And they were mostly killed by people with criminal records (and, sadly, at least of the victims [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[412,18,22],"tags":[249],"class_list":["post-66497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-childrens-crusade","category-pc","category-victim-disarmament","tag-open-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66497"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66498,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66497\/revisions\/66498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}