{"id":4771,"date":"2009-03-11T19:25:41","date_gmt":"2009-03-11T19:25:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2009\/03\/11\/american-like-killings-in-germ\/"},"modified":"2009-03-11T19:25:41","modified_gmt":"2009-03-11T19:25:41","slug":"american-like-killings-in-germ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/11\/american-like-killings-in-germ\/","title":{"rendered":"American-like killings in Germany"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t overlook the awful news from Germany, in which a taunted and bullied crazy person killed 15 people and self.  He started out in his old High School where he gunned down 9 people, so quickly that many of the dead were students found with their head on the desk and their pencils still in their hands.  He took off, initiating a huge manhunt, hijacked a car, killed a bunch more people, had a shootout with the police, ran away and finally killed himself.<\/p>\n<p>The weapon was a handgun from his father&#8217;s gun collection.<\/p>\n<p>Since the Germans have stricter gun ownership  rules than the Americans, and within a forty eight hour period more people were killed in a spectacular shooting spree than in America (by a few), we can now argue that American gun laws should be relaxed.  Or at least, that will be the logic coming from the Gun Nuts.<\/p>\n<p>Gun nuts?  Care to defend yourselves on this one?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t overlook the awful news from Germany, in which a taunted and bullied crazy person killed 15 people and self. He started out in his old High School where he gunned down 9 people, so quickly that many of the dead were students found with their head on the desk and their pencils still in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/11\/american-like-killings-in-germ\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">American-like killings in Germany<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-1eX","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4771"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4771\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}