{"id":30651,"date":"2018-06-30T02:44:28","date_gmt":"2018-06-30T02:44:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=30651"},"modified":"2018-06-30T02:44:28","modified_gmt":"2018-06-30T02:44:28","slug":"we-are-in-serious-trouble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=30651","title":{"rendered":"We are in serious trouble"},"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\/2018\/06\/images.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-30652\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/images.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"299\" height=\"168\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I am going to steer far from any discussion about what motivated the mass murderer this week in Annapolis, Md.<\/p>\n<p>Also, I will not discuss the issue of guns, gun control or gun rights.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, I merely want to lament briefly the terrible state of our union in the context of the murder of five newspaper employees. A gunman with a shotgun sauntered into the Capital-Gazette office and opened fire.<\/p>\n<p>He killed four journalists and a sales assistant and &#8220;gravely injured&#8221; two others.<\/p>\n<p>I damn near have run out of expressions of outrage over this latest act of insane senselessness. Children get slaughtered in our public schools; nightclub patrons are murdered; a crowd of country music festival attendees runs for cover as a gunman opens fire on them with a &#8220;bump stock&#8221; rifle that has effectively become a machine gun; shopping mall customers have fallen; so have movie theater customers.<\/p>\n<p>What the hell is going on in my country?<\/p>\n<p>The president who vows to &#8220;put America first&#8221; seems tone deaf to how the world is viewing this nation of ours. Other Americans are not. I happen to one who is terribly concerned about what the world thinks of us, how it perceives Americans. I want the world to think well of Americans and of our country.<\/p>\n<p>Donald J. Trump tells us the world &#8220;respects&#8221; us again. Does it? Can it possibly &#8220;respect&#8221; a nation where citizens open fire on their fellow citizens?<\/p>\n<p>Yes, this is all happening as the nation grapples with immigration policy and its treatment of those who seek to come here in search of a better life.<\/p>\n<p>I have to wonder: How much better can life here be when gunmen open fire without warning on people who go to work never expecting that they would <em>die?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Yes, we are in trouble.<\/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 am going to steer far from any discussion about what motivated the mass murderer this week in Annapolis, Md. Also, I will not discuss the issue of guns, gun control or gun rights. Instead, I merely want to lament briefly the terrible state of our union in the context of the murder of five &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=30651\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">We are in serious trouble<\/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":[7848,7604,7850,1424,2037],"class_list":["post-30651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-annapolis-shooting","tag-bump-stocks","tag-capital-gazette","tag-donald-trump","tag-gun-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30651","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=30651"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30653,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30651\/revisions\/30653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}