{"id":153,"date":"2018-04-23T07:38:50","date_gmt":"2018-04-23T12:38:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegigl.com\/blog\/?p=153"},"modified":"2018-04-22T21:57:36","modified_gmt":"2018-04-23T02:57:36","slug":"an-unoriginal-thought-or-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stevegigl.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/23\/an-unoriginal-thought-or-two\/","title":{"rendered":"An unoriginal thought (or two)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OK, look, I know it&#8217;s hacky and the first thing that would come to mind <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kvia.com\/news\/el-paso\/umc-announces-memorial-for-parkland-middle-school-boy-struck-and-killed\/732734213\">after reading this<\/a> (which, by the way, is awful and sad)\u00a0but I&#8217;ve got 2 unoriginal things, so that&#8217;s better&#8230; right?\u00a0 (Don&#8217;t answer that.)<\/p>\n<p>1. If the NRA* can be held responsible for all gun homicides (newsflash: they can&#8217;t) then David Hogg and his classmates have even more responsibility for this boy&#8217;s death than the NRA ever could for a gun homicide.\u00a0 They literally said &#8220;hey, go out there and march&#8221; and that led to this boy&#8217;s tragic death.<\/p>\n<p>2.\u00a0 In a school shooting, gun owners and manufacturers are told that they are evil and must be put in check for the greater good.\u00a0 Meanwhile, the 8 other people\/organizations that let someone slip through the cracks get little attention.\u00a0 Apply those politics to this situation, and instead of seeing how the walkout got out of hand or a driver was distracted, people would attack&#8230; David Hogg and Ford.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>(*note: I am not a member, but I have been tempted to join every time boycotts are threatened, because that&#8217;s my temperament.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK, look, I know it&#8217;s hacky and the first thing that would come to mind&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stevegigl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stevegigl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stevegigl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stevegigl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stevegigl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/stevegigl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":156,"href":"http:\/\/stevegigl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions\/156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stevegigl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stevegigl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stevegigl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}