{"id":11874,"date":"2015-12-04T01:13:46","date_gmt":"2015-12-04T01:13:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=11874"},"modified":"2015-12-04T01:13:46","modified_gmt":"2015-12-04T01:13:46","slug":"gun-death-toll-keeps-mounting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=11874","title":{"rendered":"Gun death toll keeps mounting"},"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><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/barack.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11875\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/barack-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"barack\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/barack-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/barack.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I totally understand that President Barack Obama has his share of critics.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, I respect and honor Americans&#8217; right to criticize him,\u00a0even though I remain generally a supporter of his policies, his vision for the country and the manner in which he has led us.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CBSEveningNews\/status\/672573812844576768\">It&#8217;s hard for me to watch <\/a>this brief compilation of the number of times the president has had to go before the nation in the wake of mass shootings.<\/p>\n<p>San Bernardino, Calif., was just the latest. I am frightfully certain there will be more of those kinds of massacres before the president and his family check out of the White House on Jan. 20, 2017.<\/p>\n<p>And, yes, there will be more of them for the <em>next<\/em> president to confront.<\/p>\n<p>I am not going to make any partisan statement here about how we should end it. I&#8217;m not going to enter the fray that&#8217;s erupting already about whether to clamp more gun control laws, or whether the latest shooters were jihadists.<\/p>\n<p>This is a terribly complex and hear-wrenching problem that has gripped the nation by the throat. It won&#8217;t let go.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m just one American who&#8217;s grown weary of watching these events unfold. I try, with no success at all, to imagine how a president musters the will to corral his emotions with every violent spasm that grips the country he governs.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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>I totally understand that President Barack Obama has his share of critics. Moreover, I respect and honor Americans&#8217; right to criticize him,\u00a0even though I remain generally a supporter of his policies, his vision for the country and the manner in which he has led us. It&#8217;s hard for me to watch this brief compilation of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=11874\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Gun death toll keeps mounting<\/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":[540,2037,5708],"class_list":["post-11874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-barack-obama","tag-gun-violence","tag-san-bernardino"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11874","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=11874"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11876,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11874\/revisions\/11876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}