{"id":181592,"date":"2016-05-10T19:05:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-11T00:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/05\/10\/god-bless-the-2nd-amendment\/"},"modified":"2016-05-10T19:05:00","modified_gmt":"2016-05-11T00:05:00","slug":"god-bless-the-2nd-amendment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/05\/10\/god-bless-the-2nd-amendment\/","title":{"rendered":"God Bless the 2nd Amendment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/fL225HG.gif\" style=\"cursor: pointer; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px;\" width=\"225\" \/>This year <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/wonk\/wp\/2016\/05\/01\/toddlers-have-shot-at-least-23-people-this-year\/\">toddlers have shot at least 23 people<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">This past week, a Milwaukee toddler <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2016\/apr\/28\/milwaukee-two-year-old-son-mother-shot\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fatally shot his mother<\/a>  after finding a handgun in the back seat of the car they were riding  in. The case drew a lot of national attention given the unusual  circumstances: Little kids rarely kill people, intentionally or not. <\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">Last year, a Washington Post analysis found that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/wonk\/wp\/2015\/10\/14\/people-are-getting-shot-by-toddlers-on-a-weekly-basis-this-year\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">toddlers were finding guns and shooting people at a rate of about one&nbsp;a week<\/a>.  This year, that pace has accelerated. There have been at least 23  toddler-involved shootings since Jan. 1, compared with&nbsp;18 over the same  period last year.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">In the vast majority of cases, the children  accidentally shoot themselves.&nbsp;That&#8217;s happened 18 times this year, and  in&nbsp;nine&nbsp;of those cases the children died of&nbsp;their wounds.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><b><span style=\"font-size: 150%; font-variant: small-caps;\">America, F%$# Yeah!!<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year toddlers have shot at least 23 people: This past week, a Milwaukee toddler fatally shot his mother after finding a handgun in the back seat of the car they were riding in. The case drew a lot of national attention given the unusual circumstances: Little kids rarely kill people, intentionally or not. \u2026\u2026\u2026 &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1055,1150,1059],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gun-laws","category-public-health","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181592"}],"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=181592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181592\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}