{"id":667,"date":"2023-04-18T06:57:52","date_gmt":"2023-04-18T13:57:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/?p=667"},"modified":"2023-04-18T07:47:03","modified_gmt":"2023-04-18T14:47:03","slug":"more-mass-shootings-than-number-of-days-in-2023-so-far","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/2023\/04\/18\/more-mass-shootings-than-number-of-days-in-2023-so-far\/","title":{"rendered":"More Mass Shootings than Number of Days in 2023 So Far."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>WTF America?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jesus Christ. We\u2019ve got two cases where some idiot just fired his weapon without reason, seriously wounding or killing the victims.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kcur.org\/live-updates\/ralph-yarl-kansas-city-shooting-protest\" target=\"_blank\">First case<\/a> involved a black teenage boy who knocked at the wrong door \u2013 literally. He was provided an address by his mother to pick up his siblings but ended up at the correct house number \u2013 wrong street. The old guy who lived there responded by shooting, seriously injuring the child.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2023\/04\/18\/1170593395\/kaylin-gillis-new-york-driveway-kevin-monahan?utm_campaign=npr&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=facebook.com&amp;utm_term=nprnews&amp;fbclid=IwAR1_TmuL9iTeudNCH9yyKrDTd_Yjx87kXf-hPtO6ipqZfy3t6HjZyokA0vc\" target=\"_blank\">Second case<\/a> was very similar. A car simply was pulling into a driveway in order to turn around. Owner of the house walked out onto his porch and shot, killing one of the occupants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These two cases don\u2019t fit the criteria of a mass shooting, and are in addition to the fact that there have been more mass shootings than the number of days. Today marks the 108<sup>th<\/sup> day of the year, or as those familiar with Julian Dates, today\u2019s date is 23108. According to <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gunviolencearchive.org\/reports\/mass-shooting\" target=\"_blank\">gunviolencearchive.org<\/a>, we have had 164 mass shootings this year alone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How long before we decide to do something about this, other than to say \u201cIt\u2019s the person\u2019s fault, not the gun?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> How long before we decide to do something about this, other than to say \u201cIt\u2019s the person\u2019s fault, not the gun?\u201d What\u2019s the solution? I don\u2019t know. What I do know is that what we are currently doing is not it. I\u2019m a gun-owner. I\u2019m not about abolishing the right to bear arms, but there has to be something we can do to effectively reduce these tragedies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There have been more mass shootings than the the number of days this year so far. And that doesn\u2019t even include gun violence that is not classified as \u201cmass shootings.\u201d How long before we decide to do something about this, other than to say \u201cIt\u2019s the person\u2019s fault, not the gun?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>#MassShootings #GunViolence<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[370,371],"class_list":["post-667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-gun-violence","tag-mass-shooting"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=667"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":671,"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667\/revisions\/671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}