{"id":127817,"date":"2015-08-26T23:02:53","date_gmt":"2015-08-27T05:02:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/08\/26\/its-never-the-right-time-to-discuss-gun-violence-it-seems.html"},"modified":"2015-08-26T23:02:53","modified_gmt":"2015-08-27T05:02:53","slug":"its-never-the-right-time-to-discuss-gun-violence-it-seems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/08\/26\/its-never-the-right-time-to-discuss-gun-violence-it-seems.html","title":{"rendered":"It&#039;s never the right time to discuss gun violence, it seems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you can&#39;t discuss it after mass shootings because it&#39;s &quot;too soon&quot; &#8230; then it&#39;s difficult to find a time to discuss it, given the frequency of mass shootings.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"sm2wpreshared\">Originally shared by <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930'>+Les Jenkins<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>It&#39;ll never be the right time to discuss gun control and that&#39;s just the way they want it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/wonkblog\/wp\/2015\/07\/27\/why-its-never-the-right-time-to-discuss-gun-violence\/?postshare=6951440605243461'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/y_hmRkd8OJmGpzuKZgX53Nd1AFIilsOGknDVKdiaYBjRmV-tJaiNAFe39GtHdu09MFhaqV18g4Hpboqu7RLG8xBPXRJi8SHf53rRdXdXprqnZAfn1smQ6-XHw-7ZypY=w506-h303-p' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/wonkblog\/wp\/2015\/07\/27\/why-its-never-the-right-time-to-discuss-gun-violence\/?postshare=6951440605243461'>Why it&rsquo;s never &lsquo;the right time&rsquo; to discuss gun control<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nWe haven&#8217;t gone more than 8 days without a mass shooting this year.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/HB1Qt1vvNgY'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you can&#39;t discuss it after mass shootings because it&#39;s &quot;too soon&quot; &#8230; then it&#39;s difficult to find a time to discuss it, given the frequency of mass shootings. Originally shared by +Les Jenkins: It&#39;ll never be the right time to discuss gun control and that&#39;s just the way they want it. Why it&rsquo;s never &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/08\/26\/its-never-the-right-time-to-discuss-gun-violence-it-seems.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;It&#039;s never the right time to discuss gun violence, it seems&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":134905,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/10\/03\/things-change-mass-shootings-gun-laws-get-loosened.html","url_meta":{"origin":127817,"position":0},"title":"Things DO change after mass shootings. Gun laws get loosened","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 3-Oct-17 4:13pm","format":false,"excerpt":"In Republican-controlled states, laws explicitly making it easier to obtain or tote about firearms are more common after a mass shooting has taken place. Reducing or eliminating waiting periods, expanding open or concealed carry, you name it, such laws are apparently easier to get passed when a mass shooting occurs.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/guns-we-the-people.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":128207,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/10\/02\/if-we-dont-study-it-we-can-just-pontificate-on-it.html","url_meta":{"origin":127817,"position":1},"title":"If we don&#039;t study it, we can just pontificate on it","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 2-Oct-15 10:34am","format":false,"excerpt":"Pontificate in sorrow, or in resolute love of freedom, or in angry tones about how \"this isn't the time\" (which time becomes much more difficult to pin down since the intervals between mass shootings keep growing ever shorter).This is from back in July -- right after another mass shooting that\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":127829,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/08\/28\/guns-madness-no-mass-shootings-are-clearly-about-secular-progressivism.html","url_meta":{"origin":127817,"position":2},"title":"Guns? 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