{"id":5791,"date":"2011-12-27T11:47:03","date_gmt":"2011-12-27T17:47:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freethoughtblogs.com\/xblog\/?p=1781"},"modified":"2011-12-27T11:47:03","modified_gmt":"2011-12-27T17:47:03","slug":"three-shot-one-dead-because-the-nra-owns-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/27\/three-shot-one-dead-because-the-nra-owns-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Three shot, one dead, because the NRA owns us."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The National Rifle Association insists that unmitigated stupidity and unchecked use of deadly weapons shall not be infringed.  They call it the Second Amendment, I call it an assault on the American People.  Perhaps when Jahmesha McMillan and Treka MacMillan recover from their wounds, they can join in that discussio . Jasmine Thar, though, is dead and won&#8217;t be able to. And her only crime was standing in her driveway with her family, about to leave on a trip to the nearby beach.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s when James Blackwell, gun nut, was cleaning his high powered rifle, or so he says, across the street, and accidentally discharged, or so it is assumed, a single round which passed through the bodies of all three aforementioned victims.  <\/p>\n<p>But really, this was not an accident.  It is not an accident that people unable to safely clean a gun own very dangerous weapons and are allowed to play with them in populated areas. That is quite intentional. The NRA has taken down another American Citizen. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ohhshoot.blogspot.com\/2011\/12\/man-cleaning-high-powered-rifle.html\">Details here. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Rifle Association insists that unmitigated stupidity and unchecked use of deadly weapons shall not be infringed. They call it the Second Amendment, I call it an assault on the American People. Perhaps when Jahmesha McMillan and Treka MacMillan recover from their wounds, they can join in that discussio . Jasmine Thar, though, is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/27\/three-shot-one-dead-because-the-nra-owns-us\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Three shot, one dead, because the NRA owns us.<\/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\/p5fhV1-1vp","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5791"}],"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=5791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5791\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}