{"id":1144,"date":"2007-04-16T15:34:43","date_gmt":"2007-04-16T20:34:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2007\/04\/16\/va-tech\/"},"modified":"2007-04-16T22:57:05","modified_gmt":"2007-04-17T03:57:05","slug":"va-tech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2007\/04\/16\/va-tech\/","title":{"rendered":"VA Tech&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\">&nbsp;<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"520\" border=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.1boringoldman.com\/images\/vatech.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\">Two bomb threats last week, now a horrible indiscriminant mass shooting. 32 dead. Preliminary diagnosis, disgruntled student out of control with escalating rage. Weapons? Two 9mm semiautomatic pistols. Maybe a bulletproof vest. Now we listen to weeks of explanations about why gun control is a bad idea. And we try to think up things to say about something about which there is nothing to say. And we feel edgy about the possibility that some other person on the edge of madness sees the news and decides to do the same thing [so we can listen to more explanations about why gun control is a bad idea].<\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\">It seems to me that about the only part of the Bill of Rights that is currently held sacred under this Administration is the Second Amendment: &quot;&#8230; the right of the People to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.&quot;<\/div>\n<hr size=\"3\" noshade=\"noshade\" \/>\n<hr size=\"1\" \/>\n<div align=\"justify\"><strong><u>Update<\/u>:<\/strong> I&#8217;m glad to see that others were as outraged with Dana Perino&#8217;s first <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nbc29.com\/Global\/story.asp?S=6377235&#038;clienttype=mobile\"><strong>response<\/strong><\/a> from the President as I was: &quot;<font>Dana Perino says the president was <em>&#8216;horrified and his immediate reaction was one of deep concern for the families of the victims, the victims themselves, the students, the professors and all the people of Virginia who have dealt with this shocking incident.&#8217;<\/em> <\/font><font>Perino said <strong><em>&#8216;The president believes that there is a right for people to bear arms, but that all laws must be followed.&#8217;<\/em><\/strong>&quot; <\/font>    <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; Two bomb threats last week, now a horrible indiscriminant mass shooting. 32 dead. Preliminary diagnosis, disgruntled student out of control with escalating rage. Weapons? Two 9mm semiautomatic pistols. Maybe a bulletproof vest. Now we listen to weeks of explanations about why gun control is a bad idea. And we try to think up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}