{"id":178493,"date":"2018-11-12T19:52:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-13T00:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/11\/12\/when-someone-says-good-guy-with-a-gun-they-mean-white-guy-with-a-gun\/"},"modified":"2018-11-12T19:52:00","modified_gmt":"2018-11-13T00:52:00","slug":"when-someone-says-good-guy-with-a-gun-they-mean-white-guy-with-a-gun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/11\/12\/when-someone-says-good-guy-with-a-gun-they-mean-white-guy-with-a-gun\/","title":{"rendered":"When Someone Says, &#8220;Good Guy with a Gun,&#8221; they mean &#8220;White Guy with a Gun.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Case in point, Midlothian, Illinois, where an armed security guard subdued a suspect, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/nation\/2018\/11\/12\/they-basically-saw-black-man-with-gun-police-kill-armed-guard-after-responding-call\/\">was promptly shot by police<\/a>:<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">It began in a way gun advocates have suggested would curtail violence. A gun comes out. Shots are fired. A \u201cgood guy with a gun\u201d steps in to help before police can respond. <\/p>\n<p>The tidy theoretical doesn\u2019t account for the chaotic unknowns when police arrive and can\u2019t tell a \u201cgood guy\u201d with a gun from a \u201cbad guy\u201d with a gun. <\/p>\n<p>The theory turned to grim reality at Manny\u2019s Blue Room Bar in Robbins, Ill., outside Chicago early Sunday. <\/p>\n<p>Police shot and killed the good guy. Jemel Roberson, 26, was working security. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cEverybody was screaming out, \u2018He was a security guard,\u2019 and they basically saw a black man with a gun and killed him,\u201d witness Adam Harris <a href=\"https:\/\/wgntv.com\/2018\/11\/11\/multiple-wounded-in-robbins-bar-shooting-police-say\/?utm_campaign=trueAnthem:+Trending+Content&amp;utm_content=5be90a0c04d3010e98049d31&amp;utm_medium=trueAnthem&amp;utm_source=twitter\">told WGN<\/a>.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I expect nothing but crickets from the NRA over this, because their underlying reason for existence is their advocacy for the ability of white people to shoot black people whenever they see fit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Case in point, Midlothian, Illinois, where an armed security guard subdued a suspect, and was promptly shot by police: It began in a way gun advocates have suggested would curtail violence. A gun comes out. Shots are fired. A \u201cgood guy with a gun\u201d steps in to help before police can respond. The tidy theoretical &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[531,526,374,398],"class_list":["post-178493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-gun-laws","tag-law-enforcement-misconduct","tag-politics","tag-racism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178493"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}