{"id":186056,"date":"2014-05-27T08:55:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-27T13:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/05\/27\/im-not-sure-what-i-can-say-about-the-santa-barbara-shootings\/"},"modified":"2014-05-27T08:55:00","modified_gmt":"2014-05-27T13:55:00","slug":"im-not-sure-what-i-can-say-about-the-santa-barbara-shootings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/05\/27\/im-not-sure-what-i-can-say-about-the-santa-barbara-shootings\/","title":{"rendered":"I’m Not Sure What I Can Say About the Santa Barbara Shootings"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>But I do agree with the response of Richard Martinez, the the father of one of the victims, Chris\u00adtopher Michaels-Martinez, makes a powerful and heartfelt statement<\/a><\/p>\n

He\u2019s asking members of Congress to stop calling him to offer condolences but nothing more for the death of his only child, Chris\u00adtopher Michaels-Martinez, who was killed in the rampage Friday in Santa Barbara, Calif.<\/span>

<\/span> \u201cI don\u2019t care about your sympathy. I don\u2019t give a s— that you feel sorry for me,\u201d Richard Martinez said during an extensive interview, his face flushed as tears rolled down. \u201cGet to work and do something. I\u2019ll tell the president the same thing if he calls me. Getting a call from a politician doesn\u2019t impress me.\u201d<\/span>

<\/span> Saying that \u201cwe are all to blame\u201d for the death of his 20-year-old son, Martinez urged the public to join him in demanding \u201cimmediate action\u201d from members of Congress and President Obama to curb gun violence by passing stricter gun-<\/span>
control laws.<\/span>

<\/span> \u201cToday, I\u2019m going to ask every person I can find to send a postcard to every politician they can think of with three words on it: \u2018Not one more,\u2019\u2008\u201d he said Tuesday. \u201cPeople are looking for something to do. I\u2019m asking people to stand up for something. Enough is enough.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Of course the small number of people who possess a lethal juxtaposition of small penisises and revenge fantasies have immediately jumped on the grieving father, because they are deeply evil ratf%$#s.<\/p>\n

Rahter unsurprisingly, Joe the Plumber led the hit parade<\/a>:<\/p>\n

I am sorry you lost your child. I myself have a son and daughter and the one thing I never want to go through, is what you are going through now. But:<\/span>

<\/span> As harsh as this sounds \u2013 your dead kids don\u2019t trump my Constitutional rights.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I am not particularly<\/b> surprised that this is not the worst thing said so far, but the worst thing said so far actually stunned me<\/a>:<\/p>\n

F%$# him. He is a piece of shit. His tragedy sucks, but he blamed me for it and wants to take away my rights. The guy is trying to take away my rights to protect my family. F%$# him every day of the week and twice on Sunday.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

(%$# mine<\/i>)<\/p>\n

This is Todd Kincannon, who is perhaps the perfect demonstration about how the people who have been drawn to the NRA’s increasing insanity are a priori (in a Kantian sense) unsuited to possess anything more dangerous than a plastic spoon,<\/p>\n

I know that there are responsible firearm owners out there, but the folks that the NRA speaks to are not in that group. <\/p>\n

I would add that it appears that the shooter was closely tied into the pick-up artist\/mens rights community<\/a>, which is a group of people who make furries seem sane.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

But I do agree with the response of Richard Martinez, the the father of one of the victims, Chris\u00adtopher Michaels-Martinez, makes a powerful and heartfelt statement He\u2019s asking members of Congress to stop calling him to offer condolences but nothing more for the death of his only child, Chris\u00adtopher Michaels-Martinez, who was killed in the …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1052,969,1055,1104],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crimes","category-evil","category-gun-laws","category-psychology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186056"}],"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=186056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186056\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}