{"id":5008,"date":"2011-10-13T16:21:10","date_gmt":"2011-10-13T21:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freethoughtblogs.com\/xblog\/?p=803"},"modified":"2011-10-13T16:21:10","modified_gmt":"2011-10-13T21:21:10","slug":"face-facts-people-are-too-stupid-to-be-allowed-guns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/13\/face-facts-people-are-too-stupid-to-be-allowed-guns\/","title":{"rendered":"Face facts: People are too stupid to be allowed guns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chaz Ursamanno shot himself in the head demonstrating to his girlfriend that his gun was empty.  <a href=\"http:\/\/largo.patch.com\/articles\/seminole-man-accidentally-shoots-himself-in-the-head\">And he did it twice.<\/a>   Barber Kurt Voelkel was shot in the ass when a customer&#8217;s pistol fell out of his pants and went up.  The bullet went clear through the barber&#8217;s chair, wallet, and butt.  Well, actually, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wdam.com\/story\/15638759\/barber-accidently-shot-in-buttocks\">it stayed in his butt<\/a>.  In Oklahoma, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newson6.com\/story\/15667175\/skiatook-man-killed-by-bullet-fired-during-target-practice\">two slack jawed yokels<\/a> decided to &#8220;target practice&#8221; with no idea what was beyond the trees lining the field they were shooting in.  What was there was a farmer and his little nephew.  The nephew got to watch as David Reed&#8217;s chest was pierced fatally with a stray bullet.  Six year old Zykria Hackett of Greenwood, South Carolina, which is the stoopedest state in the US, was shot and killed by her grand-daddy&#8217;s gun while waiting to go to a pre-church breakfast.  The granddaddy had stashed little Zykria and two other young children in the van and while they were waiting for him, the kids found his gun and decided to play with it.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.wspa.com\/news\/2011\/oct\/10\/8\/six-year-old-girl-shot-and-killed-ar-2530420\/\">There will be no charges. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chaz Ursamanno shot himself in the head demonstrating to his girlfriend that his gun was empty. And he did it twice. Barber Kurt Voelkel was shot in the ass when a customer&#8217;s pistol fell out of his pants and went up. The bullet went clear through the barber&#8217;s chair, wallet, and butt. Well, actually, it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/13\/face-facts-people-are-too-stupid-to-be-allowed-guns\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Face facts: People are too stupid to be allowed guns<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[449,290],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-1iM","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5008"}],"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=5008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5008\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}