{"id":10217,"date":"2015-07-18T03:13:10","date_gmt":"2015-07-18T03:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=10217"},"modified":"2015-07-18T03:13:10","modified_gmt":"2015-07-18T03:13:10","slug":"shooting-ignite-knee-jerk-reaction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=10217","title":{"rendered":"Shooting ignites knee-jerk reaction"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Here come the knee-jerk activists.<\/p>\n<p>Someone twists off, goes on a shooting spree, kills four U.S. Marines and, oh yes, he happens to be Muslim.<\/p>\n<p>How do some of us react: Curtail immigration from Muslim countries. Why, shoot, let&#8217;s just ban them altogether.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/chattanooga-shooter-came-from-middle-class-muslim-family\/2015\/07\/16\/815c39c2-2c04-11e5-bd33-395c05608059_story.html<\/p>\n<p>Mohammad Abdulazeez grew up in Chattanooga, Tenn., the son of a conservative Muslim couple who came here when the young man was infant. He now is accused of killing four people in a shooting rampage.<\/p>\n<p>What fueled the gunman&#8217;s anger? Was he determined to carry out a jihad against the &#8220;infidels&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p>Who in the world knows what triggered the outburst?<\/p>\n<p>I do believe, though, that we must not react to this tragedy as if it somehow fits some still-unknown pattern.<\/p>\n<p>Abdulazeez might embody all the things many Americans fear the most: a mass attack on Americans by people who are intent on killing all of us.<\/p>\n<p>Then again, he might just be a disturbed young man who had a beef with someone and then snapped.<\/p>\n<p>Those things happen with people of all faiths, ethnic origins or socio-economic backgrounds.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here come the knee-jerk activists. Someone twists off, goes on a shooting spree, kills four U.S. Marines and, oh yes, he happens to be Muslim. How do some of us react: Curtail immigration from Muslim countries. Why, shoot, let&#8217;s just ban them altogether. https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/chattanooga-shooter-came-from-middle-class-muslim-family\/2015\/07\/16\/815c39c2-2c04-11e5-bd33-395c05608059_story.html Mohammad Abdulazeez grew up in Chattanooga, Tenn., the son of a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=10217\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Shooting ignites knee-jerk reaction<\/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":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[935,2465,3168],"class_list":["post-10217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-chattanooga-shooting","tag-jihad","tag-muslims"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}