{"id":180531,"date":"2017-03-22T20:37:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-23T01:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/03\/22\/what-the-hell\/"},"modified":"2017-03-22T20:37:00","modified_gmt":"2017-03-23T01:37:00","slug":"what-the-hell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/03\/22\/what-the-hell\/","title":{"rendered":"What the Hell?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that there <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2017\/mar\/22\/westminster-attack-man-shot-by-police-and-several-hurt-in-nearby-incident\">was a terrorist attack in London outside of Parliament<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Five people have died, including a police officer, and at least 20 people have been injured in a major terror attack outside the Houses of Parliament, the Metropolitan police have confirmed.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">Mark Rowley, the head of counter-terrorism at the Met, said a police officer had died after being stabbed by a lone attacker attempting to enter the House of Commons. The suspect was shot and killed.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">Moments earlier, at about 2.40pm, the attacker drove a vehicle at speed into pedestrians on Westminster Bridge, near parliament, killing two people.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">Rowley said at least 20 people, including three officers, were hurt in the attack on the bridge. A diplomatic source told Reuters three French students were among the injured. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a day we\u2019ve planned for but hoped would never happen. Sadly it\u2019s now a reality,\u201d Rowley said. \u201cThe attack started when a car was driven over Westminster Bridge hitting and injuring a number of members of the public, also including three police officers on their way back from a commendation ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe car then crashed near to parliament and at least one man armed with a knife continued the attack and tried to enter parliament.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m not really sure what to think at this point, except for one thing:  If it had been the United States, as opposed to London, it would have been a gun, not a knife, and the death toll would likely have been in the double digits.<\/p>\n<p>What?&nbsp; The wrong time to argue for gun control? Too soon?<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s always too soon to talk about gun control, it seems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that there was a terrorist attack in London outside of Parliament: Five people have died, including a police officer, and at least 20 people have been injured in a major terror attack outside the Houses of Parliament, the Metropolitan police have confirmed. Mark Rowley, the head of counter-terrorism at the Met, said a &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":[435,371,531,373],"class_list":["post-180531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-crimes","tag-europe","tag-gun-laws","tag-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180531"}],"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=180531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180531\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}