{"id":128303,"date":"2015-10-13T23:10:49","date_gmt":"2015-10-14T05:10:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/10\/13\/the-only-thing-that-can-stop-a-crazy-with-a-gun-is-um-no-more-crazy.html"},"modified":"2015-10-14T07:53:06","modified_gmt":"2015-10-14T13:53:06","slug":"the-only-thing-that-can-stop-a-crazy-with-a-gun-is-um-no-more-crazy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/10\/13\/the-only-thing-that-can-stop-a-crazy-with-a-gun-is-um-no-more-crazy.html","title":{"rendered":"The only thing that can stop a Crazy with a Gun is &#8230; um &#8230; no more Crazy!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jeb! has revealed his secret plan to stop mass killings: <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stonekettle.com\/2015\/10\/bang-bang-crazy-two-in-bush.html\">http:\/\/www.stonekettle.com\/2015\/10\/bang-bang-crazy-two-in-bush.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The cause of all this gun violence is that crazy people can get guns! And then they kill people (not because they have guns, or that they are crazy and have guns, but because they are crazy).  So, somehow, we need to figure out how to <i>stop that happening,<\/i> while at the same time reducing medical coverage, reducing government regulation, and increasing access to guns (so that everyone can protect themselves against all the possible crazy people who are killing folk, not because they have guns, but because they are crazy).<\/p>\n<p>Because FREEDOM!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style='text-align:center'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/photos\/101083456815352083930\/albums\/6205365678903653697\/6205365695079200562'><img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-tdohUfPyq2A\/Vh3jOOSXNzI\/AAAAAAADaaQ\/WR0NnE-ILkI\/gun-crazy-movie-poster-1949-1020142772%255B1%255D.jpg?imgmax=660' style='max-width:650px;' \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style='text-align:center'>\n<a href='' style='width:50px;height:50px;display:inline-block;background-size:cover;background-image:url();'><\/a>\u00a0\n<\/div>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/9YMiCDr9Gno'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeb! has revealed his secret plan to stop mass killings: http:\/\/www.stonekettle.com\/2015\/10\/bang-bang-crazy-two-in-bush.html The cause of all this gun violence is that crazy people can get guns! And then they kill people (not because they have guns, or that they are crazy and have guns, but because they are crazy). So, somehow, we need to figure out &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/10\/13\/the-only-thing-that-can-stop-a-crazy-with-a-gun-is-um-no-more-crazy.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The only thing that can stop a Crazy with a Gun is &#8230; um &#8230; no more Crazy!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":128304,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_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":[106,532,298],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts","category-elections-2016","category-guns"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/gun-crazy-movie-poster-1949-10201427725B15D.jpgimgmax=660.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":130427,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/04\/14\/bang-bang-crazy.html","url_meta":{"origin":128303,"position":0},"title":"Bang Bang Crazy","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 14-Apr-16 11:52pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Jim Wright does great long-form blog entries at Stonekettle Station. Here he (once again) dives into the depths of pro-gun fervency, Twitter-style, and gets a predictable series of NRA talking points, ad hominem attacks, and other logical fallacies. It's fun reading, if you've taken your blood pressure medication. Bang Bang\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":136495,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/05\/19\/on-guns-and-responsibility.html","url_meta":{"origin":128303,"position":1},"title":"On guns and responsibility","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 19-May-18 10:59pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Jim Wright, once again, nails the matter on the head.\u00a0If you own a device designed to kill, then you are responsible for making sure that doesn't happen. (Heck, we have a legal framework of responsibility at that level for devices we own that aren't designed to kill.) That's not a\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\/2018\/05\/america%2Bbullets%2Bguns.jpgimgmax%3D660.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/america%2Bbullets%2Bguns.jpgimgmax%3D660.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/america%2Bbullets%2Bguns.jpgimgmax%3D660.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"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":128303,"position":2},"title":"Guns? Madness? No, mass shootings are clearly about secular-progressivism","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 28-Aug-15 5:22am","format":false,"excerpt":"Bill's banner is emblematic of this country's gun problem:1. Not all crazy people can be topped, therefore no crazy people can be stopped, therefore gun deaths must be accepted as inevitable.2. Firearms can't be banned [under current Supreme Court interpretation of the 2nd Amendment, as understood by the NRA], therefore\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":41658,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/04\/10\/need-moar-gunz.html","url_meta":{"origin":128303,"position":3},"title":"NEED MOAR GUNZ!","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 10-Apr-14 12:15pm","format":false,"excerpt":"On intelligent thought experiments and how they get disregarded by folks whose understanding of shooting situations comes from \"The A-Team\".Reshared post from +Les JenkinsI long for the day Jim doesn't have to write another entry in this series. I fear it will not arrive in our lifetimes.\ufeff Bang Bang Crazy,\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":135052,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/10\/10\/guns-escalation-dangers-quickly-available-lethal-force.html","url_meta":{"origin":128303,"position":4},"title":"Guns and escalation and the dangers of quickly available lethal force","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 10-Oct-17 8:40am","format":false,"excerpt":"One major problem with guns is that they allow for very fast, very easy, potentially lethal escalation of a situation. We see this all the time -- the domestic dispute that gets out of hand, the suicidal impulse that has an effective solution in reach, the cop who feels endangered,\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\/unnamed-1.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":31851,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/12\/19\/simple-gun-answers-are-generally-simplistic-gun-answers.html","url_meta":{"origin":128303,"position":5},"title":"Simple gun answers are generally simplistic gun answers","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 19-Dec-12 5:37pm","format":false,"excerpt":"I've been thinking a lot about the Connecticut shooting (et al.), but not doing a lot of actually table-pounding posting about it because, aside from inarticulate wails of grief, there's not a lot simple, straightforward, concrete to say to try and fix what caused this. 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