{"id":48997,"date":"2014-12-17T06:07:09","date_gmt":"2014-12-17T06:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/12\/17\/fox-news-predictably-blames-australian-gun-laws-for-solitary-terror-act.html"},"modified":"2014-12-17T06:07:09","modified_gmt":"2014-12-17T06:07:09","slug":"fox-news-predictably-blames-australian-gun-laws-for-solitary-terror-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/12\/17\/fox-news-predictably-blames-australian-gun-laws-for-solitary-terror-act.html","title":{"rendered":"Fox News, predictably, blames Australian gun laws for solitary terror act"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Never mind that, in the same news cycle, they were also covering a story of some guy in Pennsylvania, with far more lax laws, gunning down his ex-wife and several former in-laws. Never mind since Australia passed highly restrictive gun control laws after a massacre in 1996 that the murder rate by firearm has plummeted, and that Australia enjoys a fraction of the gun death and gun homicide rates of the United States.<\/p>\n<p>No, according to Fox the main take-away from the Sydney hostage crisis was that Australians probably wish the were all carrying guns now, because that clearly would have prevented the whole event and nobody would have shot anyone else ever again..<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/blog\/2014\/12\/16\/fox-highlights-gun-laws-in-sydney-hostage-incid\/201898'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/75QlLw626v3XhRNhVYngMy0_Ab44N7e-kgP7Ss46pBUgrnpAoBFIsf5IbBgvBo5mjIDqsu3vCfYCJDZnjDkbnGQiaOhh1ljPfI_9TJ67tb-eGA7YCzQhLrXkwvWICMP8MyV5OwM=w506-h303' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/blog\/2014\/12\/16\/fox-highlights-gun-laws-in-sydney-hostage-incid\/201898'>Fox Highlights Gun Laws In Sydney Hostage Incident But Not In Pennsylvania Spree Killing<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/T8mRPPfTJGh'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Never mind that, in the same news cycle, they were also covering a story of some guy in Pennsylvania, with far more lax laws, gunning down his ex-wife and several former in-laws. Never mind since Australia passed highly restrictive gun control laws after a massacre in 1996 that the murder rate by firearm has plummeted, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/12\/17\/fox-news-predictably-blames-australian-gun-laws-for-solitary-terror-act.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Fox News, predictably, blames Australian gun laws for solitary terror act&#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-48997","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":48997,"position":0},"title":"Things DO change after mass shootings. 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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":136493,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/05\/18\/none-dare-call-it-a-police-state.html","url_meta":{"origin":48997,"position":1},"title":"None dare call it a police state","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 18-May-18 10:39pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Sean Hannity, Fox News' preeminent talent, on how to solve the problems of school shootings (emphasis added): The issue here -- well, there is some issues with gun safety, you can't let mentally ill people have guns. 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And apparently a lot of places are posting both signs now, meaning that folk who were previously devoted to concealed carry are beginning to regret that the open carry folk \"won.\"'Weighing in\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":32232,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/01\/17\/jon-stewart-on-the-nra-the-atf-and-gun-laws.html","url_meta":{"origin":48997,"position":3},"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":128269,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/10\/09\/mike-huckabee-is-a-dolt-shooting-off-ones-mouth-edition.html","url_meta":{"origin":48997,"position":4},"title":"Mike Huckabee is a Dolt (Shooting Off One&#8217;s Mouth Edition)","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 9-Oct-15 5:09pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Hey, Mike! 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