{"id":39072,"date":"2013-10-06T22:23:12","date_gmt":"2013-10-07T04:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/10\/06\/just-another-crazy-shooting-police-action-move-along.html"},"modified":"2013-10-09T05:54:27","modified_gmt":"2013-10-09T11:54:27","slug":"just-another-crazy-shooting-police-action-move-along","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/10\/06\/just-another-crazy-shooting-police-action-move-along.html","title":{"rendered":"Just another crazy shooting \/ police action. Move along"},"content":{"rendered":"
'Police do heroic things to keep us safe, often. They deserve to be paid, and paid well. But it\u2019s one of the costs of living in a country bedeviled by both mass shootings and terrorism anxiety that we\u2019ve become so unquestioning and obeisant in these moments when their overwhelming force is brought to bear\u2014that we\u2019ve become so used to the \u201cshelter in place\u201d order that we seem to remain in our place even after the order is lifted, without so much as daring to ask about the 17 bullets fired at a depressed dental hygienist going berserk in her car.'<\/i><\/p>\n

I don't think there's some crazy conspiracy theory going on here. \u00a0But there are still a lot of questions that aren't disturbing for not having answers, but for not having people asking them. \u00a0Maybe there are no answers (http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/articles\/2013\/10\/04\/what-pushed-miriam-carey-to-a-capitol-hill-tragedy.html<\/a>), but our willingness to shrug, thank the cops for keeping us safe, and move along to the next news cycle is, to say the least, disturbing.<\/p>\n

Reshared post from +Kee Hinckley<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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My Lingering Disquiet Over the Capitol Hill Shooting<\/a>
\n It all came and went so quickly\u2014panicked reports of a shooting outside the Capitol, a lockdown \n <\/p>\n

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'Police do heroic things to keep us safe, often. They deserve to be paid, and paid well. But it\u2019s one of the costs of living in a country bedeviled by both mass shootings and terrorism anxiety that we\u2019ve become so unquestioning and obeisant in these moments when their overwhelming force is brought to bear\u2014that we\u2019ve … Continue reading “Just another crazy shooting \/ police action. 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