{"id":29969,"date":"2012-08-25T18:29:12","date_gmt":"2012-08-26T00:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/25\/here-i-come-with-my-gun-to-save-the-daaaaaay.html"},"modified":"2012-08-25T18:29:12","modified_gmt":"2012-08-26T00:29:12","slug":"here-i-come-with-my-gun-to-save-the-daaaaaay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/25\/here-i-come-with-my-gun-to-save-the-daaaaaay.html","title":{"rendered":"Here I come (with my gun) to save the daaaaaay!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think George hits all the major points here. \u00a0The idea that <i>If only someone there had a gun, it would all be better!<\/i> is demonstrably dubious as a proposition.<\/p>\n<p>Not that having <i>nobody<\/i> on the scene who\u00a0was armed would have been productive, either. \u00a0But taking the step from there the Walter Mitty fantasy of a bunch of dead-eyed and efficient gun-toting citizens saving the day in a Dirty Harry make-my-day fashion &#8230; is a huge step.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reshared post from +<a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/102356721871221463140'>George Wiman<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><\/blockquote>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.decrepitoldfool.com\/2012\/08\/for-all-you-would-be-heroes-who-think-youll-save-the-day-by-carrying-a-gun\/'>\u00bb For all you would-be heroes who think you\u2019ll save the day by carrying a gun\u2026 Decrepit Old Fool<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe ballistics report is back from the Empire State shooting. It contains some surprises. Or maybe we shouldn&#39;t be surprised. This is a long post; I won&#39;t be offended if you go right to the link at th&#8230;\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'> <strong>Google+:<\/strong> <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/ZSi3CaGoj8M' target='_new'>View post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think George hits all the major points here. \u00a0The idea that If only someone there had a gun, it would all be better! is demonstrably dubious as a proposition. Not that having nobody on the scene who\u00a0was armed would have been productive, either. \u00a0But taking the step from there the Walter Mitty fantasy of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/25\/here-i-come-with-my-gun-to-save-the-daaaaaay.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Here I come (with my gun) to save the daaaaaay!&#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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29969","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":31918,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/12\/26\/reasonable-steps-toward-gun-control.html","url_meta":{"origin":29969,"position":0},"title":"Reasonable steps toward gun control","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 26-Dec-12 10:16pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Again, no single action will safeguard everyone. 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