{"id":32135,"date":"2013-01-10T22:58:49","date_gmt":"2013-01-11T05:58:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/01\/10\/scapegoat-hunter.html"},"modified":"2013-01-10T22:58:49","modified_gmt":"2013-01-11T05:58:49","slug":"scapegoat-hunter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/01\/10\/scapegoat-hunter.html","title":{"rendered":"Scapegoat Hunter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jon Stewart, Tuesday night, talking about Newtown (et al.) and gun violence.<\/p>\n<p>1. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailyshow.com\/watch\/tue-january-8-2013\/scapegoat-hunter\" class=\"ot-anchor\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.thedailyshow.com\/watch\/tue-january-8-2013\/scapegoat-hunter<\/a> (linked below)<br \/>2.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailyshow.com\/watch\/tue-january-8-2013\/scapegoat-hunter---gun-control\" class=\"ot-anchor\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.thedailyshow.com\/watch\/tue-january-8-2013\/scapegoat-hunter&#8212;gun-control<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>&#39;Gun rights activists&#39; paranoid fear of a possible dystopic future prevents America from addressing its actual dystopic present.&#39;<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Like Stewart, I&#39;m looking for a <i>range<\/i> of responses to deal with firearms deaths &#8212; accidents, suicides, homicides &#8212; in this country. There&#39;s no single solution that&#39;s going to deal with the problem, and no radical &quot;Take away everyone&#39;s guns&quot; solution that&#39;s either workable nor anywhere near serious consideration.<\/p>\n<p>But the fact that even <i>discussion<\/i> of possible incremental options related to restricting, regulating, monitoring, and\/or controlling guns is blocked politically from any sort of serious discussion, at least not without folks influential and\/or shrill\u00a0launching into flag-waving invocations of Lexington &amp; Concord and threats of violent revolution &#8230; says something very, very sad about this country.<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img style='max-width:none;' src='https:\/\/images1-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?url=http:\/\/thedailyshow.mtvnimages.com\/images\/shows\/tds\/videos\/season_18\/18040\/ds_18040_01_v6.jpg&#038;container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;rewriteMime=image\/*&#038;refresh=31536000&#038;resize_h=150&#038;resize_w=150&#038;no_expand=1' border='0' \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.thedailyshow.com\/watch\/tue-january-8-2013\/scapegoat-hunter'>Daily Show: Scapegoat Hunter<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tA national gun control conversation doesn&#8217;t necessarily start with guns.\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\/8tnxj3tHirS' target='_new'>View post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jon Stewart, Tuesday night, talking about Newtown (et al.) and gun violence. 1. http:\/\/www.thedailyshow.com\/watch\/tue-january-8-2013\/scapegoat-hunter (linked below)2.\u00a0http:\/\/www.thedailyshow.com\/watch\/tue-january-8-2013\/scapegoat-hunter&#8212;gun-control &#39;Gun rights activists&#39; paranoid fear of a possible dystopic future prevents America from addressing its actual dystopic present.&#39; Like Stewart, I&#39;m looking for a range of responses to deal with firearms deaths &#8212; accidents, suicides, homicides &#8212; in this &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/01\/10\/scapegoat-hunter.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Scapegoat Hunter&#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-32135","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":32232,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/01\/17\/jon-stewart-on-the-nra-the-atf-and-gun-laws.html","url_meta":{"origin":32135,"position":0},"title":"Jon Stewart on the NRA, the ATF, and Gun Laws","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 17-Jan-13 3:37pm","format":false,"excerpt":"For all that the pro-gun folks at the NRA\u00a0keep saying we don't need new gun laws, we just need to enforce the ones we have ... they've sure done a great job making sure the ATF can't do that very\u00a0thing.Part 1:\u00a0http:\/\/www.thedailyshow.com\/watch\/wed-january-16-2013\/there-goes-the-boomPart 2:\u00a0http:\/\/www.thedailyshow.com\/watch\/wed-january-16-2013\/there-goes-the-boom---atfAs a bonus, best NRA and ATF wisecracks ever.\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":15291,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/07\/23\/this-is-in-fact-why-i-love-the-daily-show.html","url_meta":{"origin":32135,"position":1},"title":"This is, in fact, why I love The Daily Show","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 23-Jul-09 10:02pm","format":false,"excerpt":"First: Birthers: The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon - Thurs 11p \/ 10c The Born Identity www.thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor Joke of the Day \u00a0 And, then, Michael Jackson news: The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon - Thurs 11p \/ 10c Good Morning America Investigates\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Fourth Estate&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Fourth Estate","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/media\/fourth-estate"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":24595,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/12\/16\/money-corrupts-absolute-money-corrupts-absolutely.html","url_meta":{"origin":32135,"position":2},"title":"Money corrupts; 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